I have a new love

I have a new love and my new love is called German Pancakes.

I was hanging out at the second hand store yesterday flipping through cookbooks.  One book had a recipe for German Pancakes.  I considered purchasing the book at the exorbitant price of $1.99 but it was the only thing in the book I wanted, so being frugal as I tend to be, I just memorized the recipe.

Last night, before dinner I whipped up a pancake as an appetizer.  I'm sure that somewhere pancakes make a perfect appetizer.  

It was so good, this morning I made more for breakfast.

They are fun, tasty and quite easy to make.  And I must write the recipe down before my brain purges it to make room for more stolen recipes and other important things like walking, talking and delivering mail.

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees.  
• Put 2 Tablespoons of butter in a pie pan and put it in the oven while it preheats.  You want the butter melted and the pan hot but be careful not to BURN the butter (I tried that already, it doesn't work so well.)
• Mix together (I used my hand blender) until fluffy:  3 eggs, 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup milk and a pinch of salt.
• Pour the mixture into the hot buttery pie plate and bake for 20 minutes.

(oh man - I just noticed how disgusting the front of my oven is.  please ignore the smears and finger prints!!)

Remove from pie plate (it should slip right out), put on a plate, sprinkle with melted butter and cinnamon sugar, or powdered sugar, maple syrup, warm jam, fresh fruit or any combination.

My Little Pasta Shop??

A few weeks ago a friend wanted to make home made pasta.  Being as I had experience at just such an activity, and I had a spare pasta machine (or two) I volunteered to show her the (spaghetti) ropes.

We had originally planned on having several other women joining us but last minute scheduling conflicts and sick children meant it was just the two of us.  We made basil fettuccine and a bit of angel hair pasta.  She fell in love with the process as well as the finished product and refused to give me my pasta maker back.  Harrumph.  I trust I will get it back when she get's her own.

She enthusiastically told some co workers about her delicious home made pasta and before you know we had a party.

Beth, Linda, Chris, Terry and I joined together to make pasta. Lots of pasta.

Someone piped up and said we should open a pasta shop and quit the post office drudgery.   I'm sure it wasn't the wine talking.

We had so much fun we are planning to get together and make soap in a month or so. I expect our next  idea will be "My Little Soap Shop!"