Wednesday, May 26, 2010

what's cooking wednesday - pancakes

So it seems like a long weekend coupled with a week's holidays makes it so you have no idea what day it is. Or how you got that big scratch on your knee even though it hurts like heck, but that's a story for another time. To make it up to you for being a day late with posting this I actually cooked this week. True story. My adorable little MyPie was demanding politely requesting pancakes for lunch and I was out of mix. My mother is horrified now that she's read that because do you have any idea how easy it is to make pancakes from scratch? A mix?! Pshaw!

One of my birthday gifts from my beautiful mother was Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Cookbook. It's a great looking book with fantastic recipes that I can't wait to try out. And as MyPie was harassing me for pancakes I seemed to remember the fabulous Scattered Mom tweeting about Jamie Oliver's one cup pancakes. So I grabbed my book and sure enough there they were.

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Jamie Oliver's One Cup Pancakes

1 egg
1 cup flour
1 cup milk
1 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt

Mix the egg and milk together. In another bowl mix the flour, baking powder and salt together. Next add the milk mixture to the flour mixture and mix. Melt a bit of butter in a non-stick pan and cook them pancakes.

Recipe Notes: Well these were just super easy to make. So easy that Maya actually made them herself. I helped her a bit with the measuring, but she dumped everything in and mixed it all up. Then I took care of the cooking, because, you know..... she's four. This will definitely be my go to pancake recipe now. No more boxed mix for us.




What is What's Cooking Wednesday and how can I play?

What's cooking Wednesday was born out of a desire to get out of that what's for dinner rut. Playing is easy, on Wednesday post a recipe that has been tried and tested by you and then pop over here and add your name to the Mr. Linky. When entering your name also add the name of the recipe in brackets and make sure you link to your What's Cooking Wednesday post and not just your blog's front page. *All front page links will be deleted!* Don't make me be a jerk. And don't forget to link back here, the home of What's Cooking Wednesday.

So for example I would write Shan (Speedy Chicken Stir Fry) in the name section. For the URL section I would post this: http://shanrev.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-cooking-wednesday-speedy-chicken.html

I'll let you in on a little secret, my WCW recipes are almost never made on a Wednesday. So feel free to cook and photograph whenever you have time and join us posting on Wednesday

5 comments:

Goofball said...

Yeay for pancakes :) I love them

We always use some yeast in the flour or buy "self-rising" flour...but our pancakes are crepes so really thin and then we eat stacks of them :p

Normie said...

Wonderful! I'll try this one out, too. Some things are so simple, it's embarrassing that we've been brainwashed into thinking they ~would~ be hard and you need to buy the boxed versions.

Thanks!

smilinggreenmom said...

These look great! How awesome that you received Jamie's cookbook! Lucky :) I will have to try these - we usually use a mix for 2 reasons. 1. the mix we use does not have any eggs or milk needed and we have a food allergic son and 2. because they are made from Kamut Khorasan Wheat which is so incredibly nutritious! I think I could do these though using my own Kamut flour with egg replacer - thanks!!

Michelle | Bleeding Espresso said...

A. Thanks for sharing that recipe; I know this won't surprise you, but there are no pancake mixes in Italy, so I'll definitely give this one a go!

B. Maya is getting so big! Gah! And ever more adorable :)

Shan said...

Goofball - You could use self rising flour. In fact the recipe in the book calls for self rising flour, but baking powder works too.

Normie - So simple. I mean I know pancakes from scratch are pretty easy anyway, but these... they take just as long to whip up as a boxed mix does and you don't have to deal with the box. I hate pouring pancake mix out of the box.

smiling - I was very happy & surprised to get it. Hope you enjoy the pancakes and thanks for stopping bye.

Michelle - A) let me know who you like them. And no I am not surprised at all.

B) I know, crazy isn't it!?