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Am really only getting out to ablute, eat and 'empty'. There have been a couple of days where I've really not felt like cooking and I need to watch that. I have a history of occasionally going a couple of days with only water or tea going in. Other than official fasting days, that is. Just get too caught up in reading or thinking or watching or thinking or writing or thinking. Then I forget the body and its needs. Have been pretty good, though, and making pots of soup or sambar and idlis and such then freezing some of it for 'quick meals' on other days when the cooking vibe is much less. Having only a smallish freezer box on top of the refrigerator means that I am also quite good at rotating the crop, so to speak. Unlike an uncle who has three chest freezers and searching the bottom of each could be termed archaeological.
Made pancakes earlier... will be making these again next Tuesday. You know... because...
Another of my favourite toppings is frozen raspberries zapped to 'compote' in the mikrowahveh** and stirred through the curd and toss in some fresh banana. The herb that goes nicely with that is basil, though you could use a little fresh fennel or tarragon.
How do you pancake?
** there was a recent furore about Nigella Lawson playing with the word microwave... but I'm all for playing with the syllables. Didja notice???
Our walks have been very short this week and I know some of our American friends have it colder. I like my pancakes with chocolate chips, no syrup. I actually enjoy a cold pancake too. Drew makes them every Sunday. Hope the cooking vibe returns.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful plate.
ReplyDeleteI made my fifty year old stand by of tomatoes, lima beans, corn, peas and noodles. Good as it is first night, it is to die for second and third night, when all the flavors have swapped around.
Keep warm.
Mmmm, that looks good! It hasn't been very cold here. In fact, the snow is melting. It feels "wrong" to me. Send us the cold!
ReplyDeleteF thinks that looks good (cat not convinced). Do you make your own curd? Mr B wants pancakes with lemon sugar, so F put sugar on the empty lemon shells (juice squeezed out for other things) and in a day or two it turned into a lemon syrup. So he's happily catered for. Now it's just a question of getting some roasted chicken around here - what does a cat have to do?! Fz & Pz Mr T
ReplyDeleteMinus 14°C in Aberdeen right now. Which almost counts as Canadian I think! I confess to having an 'archaeological' freezer. But I never, ever, neglect to eat.
ReplyDeleteBertie and I are loving the snow, of which we now have about 5 inches even in the city, and much more just inland.
Please take good care of yourself and keep well fuelled.
Cheers! Gail.
that looks tasty! we will give it a try too.... this siberian times scream for food what warms our tummy and our hert ;O)
ReplyDeleteHi Yam - stay safe ... and look after yourself ... I can see it's mighty cold. It is going to get slightly warmer over the weekend - hope for you too ... stay safe ... feeling for you - Hilary
ReplyDeleteI popped over and read your bread recipe and it sounds really good and I do love pancakes but I've never had them with what you have on them if we have pancakes we always put syrup on them and I eat them just like I would eat bread with just butter or with nothing on them. And I know about getting the hankering for a pancake. So what I do is I make one pancake like what you show here by just mixing flour egg and milk in a mixing cup and pouring it in my daddy called it hoecake and if you use cornmeal it's called fried cornbread
ReplyDeleteLooks good :)
ReplyDeleteThat looks so yummy! Molly and I made a huge pot of chicken soup this morning. We love pancakes with lots of butter and syrup but we try not to eat them too often.
ReplyDeleteWhat a yummy looking meal!!. Tonight Bryan and I are making a new recipe...potato soup. He is an excellent dicer and slicer so he is on potato dicing duty. I'll be thickening the milk with flour and using my Cuisinart to slice taters and celery...of course crown on the soup is being topped with bacon bits and cheddar cheese.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I made a pancake was probably 40 years ago. LOL Sis of Angel Madi loved chocolate chip pancakes on Saturdays.
Hugs Cecilia
correction slice carrots and celery...MOL
ReplyDeleteThat looks very tasty! We're heading into a very cold spell here in the next couple of days (12F or -11C for the high) and of course it comes with snow too.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about cooking. I would not cook as much if my son was not living with me. There has been quite a bit of snow happening over there! While looking for the road reports for around here to see if I could even get to the "Big City" to do some much needed pet grocery shopping, I found the Scottish Gritter Tracker! I spent far too much time chuckling over the names! (https://scotgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=2de764a9303848ffb9a4cac0bd0b1aab)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for stopping by the blog, You are AWESOME! Have a marvellously Happy Day!
Hari OM
DeleteBwwhaahha - our local one is "Sled Zeppelin"!!! What a great find, Barb, thanks for that... never thought to look for such as this. I've only ever seen the gritter go round here once this winter and once last winter and don't recall it at all before that... there are grit tubs proved along the pathways and folk have to take responsibility for spreading it themselves. Not too much snow by Dunoon, but over west and north of here it is definitely a whiteout!!! Yxx
Always enticing goodies! namaste, janice xx
ReplyDeleteWe are in the middle of our country and it is just plain bitter. Wind chills will be 20 below for the next few days. Dogs love it, but not me. That plate looks yummy. I made a spinoff of your vegetable soup and froze several containers - come in very handy on days like this:)
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