or jump to the most recent admissions of love for pancakes...
120g/4oz plain flour
pinch of salt
2 eggs
210ml/7fl oz milk
90ml/3fl oz water
15ml/1tbsp vegetable oil
1. Put the flour and the salt in a bowl and mix.
2. Make a well in the centre and crack in the eggs.
3. In a separate bowl mix together the milk and the water.
4. Beat the eggs into the flour with a wooden spoon and gradually beat in the milk and water mixture to get a smooth liquid the consistency of cream.
5.Stir in the oil and allow to stand for 30 minutes.
Pancakes
1. Heat a pancake/crepe pan and, using kitchen paper, wipe the base with a little oil.
2. Pour in about 1 tbsp of the batter and swirl around the base of the pan. Cook for 1 minute until golden and then flip over and cook the other side for another minute.
3. If the first pancake is too thick, add a little milk to the batter to thin it.
4. Make up all the pancakes as above - this amount of batter should make 12-15 pancakes.
Delicious served with homemade vanilla ice cream.
I've gone on a few more trips - one to New York City in January, stayed at the Times Square Hilton (New Yorkers are great friendly people, don't let anyone tell ya otherwise.) and one trip to Ciudad de México (DF).
Nary one single pancake crumb crossed my lips on these trips and maybe that's why I arrived back in beautiful Boulder, Colorado travel weary and damm glad to be back thank you very much.
What is it with this world travel stuff that's supposed to be so great anyway? Give me a travel video (the food.tv channel is great for this) and let me go on a virtual trip - it doesn't really matter anyway since I have this capacity for remembering things that I never actually participated in - I really remember doing it.
I've decided that it's high time to build a house at Shelf Road, yes that's right, a house at least 1500 sq ft, site-built so we comply with the covenants of the HOA. Now, it must be energy efficient with a really open floor plan and bright.
Our best views are to the north you know and if we don't cut down some trees we will need to have the main living on the second level, perhaps above the garage so the footprint is not too big and therefore too expensive because as you know we don't have much money.
It must have radient floor heat (hydroponic under concrete, that's what I want) - it's just gotta be low, low maintenance because we hate doing windows and would rather be climbing. Once it's built, please come for pancakes. First driveway past Tom's Riding Arena on Garden Park Drive. See you there - give me two years to get the house together. Thanks!
there's a translator at Alta Vista Baby. Just how do you think I am learning spanish, anyway? Just cut and paste the foreign language into Alta Vista Baby (link above) and choose something like "Italian to English".
Hope that helps ya all...after I did it, it still seemed pretty silly...oh well,
I lost my pedestal against the gas-guzzling SUV's last week when I bought my new truck and I'm ashamed to say (it feels pretty good, though) I am an over-consuming white american pig - oink!, oops, excuse me. Now about that Saudi prince... what was he saying?
I went early last Friday, before school, to deliver to my grandson the Legos that we bought online, and I smelled a warm breakfast in the kitchen and was comforted by the thought that my grandson is a lllucky kid and that his mom cooks breakfast in the morning before school and that when he finished checking out the new Legos and climbing in and out of the new pickup he could get back to his nearly-cold, syrupy, half-eaten pancake and that terrorism is allowed to exist only between your ears, and nothing more. and i ain't dyin' for no revolution and...americarules...i think.