Despite the craziness of preparing the new apartment and packing for the BIG MOVING DAY (May 26th), I was happy to have my friend Jessica come to visit this weekend before she moves back to the US after her year in France. One of the things that makes Jessica a perfect friend for me is her love of food. We agree that food is serious stuff that one should have a lot of fun with and always take time to appreciate while consuming.
I would have liked to have time to bake for real this weekend, but parts of the apt still look like this:
No your eyes aren't playing tricks - there's not even a floor yet!My pancake recipe comes from my Daddy - super guest star of this week's Sunday Baking. When I was little, he would get up with us after the 7am birds on the radio with Robert J. Lurtsema (super mega points if you can tell where I grew up from that clue). He would make pancake batter as everyone sleepy-eyed made it to the table, and then I was in charge of cooking the pancakes. I was super proud to be the official pancake-cooker in my house and refused to sit down and eat myself until everyone else had had at least one serving of pancakes. Ah, the childhood of a future gourmande. In season, or when we had frozen blueberries, we would make blueberry pancakes and while they were cooking we always sang this song written my friend's dad that went:
Pancakes on the griddle
Pancakes on the griddle
The fat ones have the sweetest middle
Pancakes on the griddle
Ahem, anyway, this morning I decided to make these pancakes for Jessica and D. (they were lucky I skipped the song). Since I haven't been able to find any wheatgerm in France, I usually substitute chestnut flour (farine de chataigne), which is pretty yummy too.
Er, can you tell we consumed a couple platefuls before I thought of taking a picture?- Beat 3 eggs.
- Add 1- 1 1/4 cups milk, 1 tsp vanilla extract and stir.
- Add without stirring:
1/3 cup whole wheat flour
1/3 cup cornmeal
1/3 cup wheatgerm (or chestnut flour)
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
3 Tbsp sugar
- Stir dry ingredients a little bit on top; then stir all the ingredients together.
- Add 1/4 - 1/3 cup oil. Stir and cook (I like to put the pan on the stove to heat up while I'm making the batter, that way it's all ready when I want to make the pancakes).
- Put 5 or 6 blueberries in each pancake as soon as you put the batter in to cook and be careful when flipping!
11 comments:
You have a trio of Dads included in your blueberry pancake extravaganza: your own Daddy's original recipe; song composed by Emily, Tim and Mel's Dad; and directions for when to flip pancakes which I learned at my Papa(your Granddad)'s side on Sunday mornings which in our household were alternately pancake or waffle breakfasts. (My Mom's job was to make the bacon or sausage to accompany.)
Blueberries exploded and sweet in the pancakes is another level of delight. Must be eaten with real maple syrup!
Love,
Mom
Oh, yummy! I love blueberries and pancakes!
Cheers,
Rosa
Mom - wow, I didn't even realize it was such a dadfest!
Rosa - yup they're both yummy and very good together!
You found blueberries?!? I'll have to keep my eyes open for those!
Camille - I was very surprised, but they're out there once in a while! Good luck.
I am highly honored to be this week's Super Guest Star (is that a bigger star, even than Purple Twirling Spoon Kitty? A zillion points to anyone outside Hope's immediate family who can place that reference.) However, while I can take credit for inventing this recipe, I could never cook pancakes worth a damn. Mine were always flat, heavy and depressing, while Hope's were always light, perfectly browned and delicious. Proving that, while I may be a good kitchen technician, or perhaps kitchen chemist, Hope est le veritable chef.
Dad - oh, it's definitely at least as big as purple twirling spoon kitty and much less scary for small children.
Well we make a good team!
Ha! I remember singing that song on multiple occasions, but I didn't realize it was popular outside our crazy family! I can't believe you remember that :)
Mel - while that song may not have made it to carnegie hall, it certainly made it downhill to the bottom of Child St. ;-)
For a 2-person batch I used one egg, 1/2 capful of vanilla, 1/2 C(almond) milk, 2 T each of the flours, a rounded 1/4 tsp salt, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 T sugar, 2 T oil - or for a one person batch two days in a row! Getting creative with making weekday breakfast for Laney. Great to have this recipe available in your archive. Thanks, ily, Mom
Glad it's useful Mumsk, that was the original point of the blog afterall! I have to figure out how to put in a search feature so recipes are easy to find...
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