Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Yummy Yummy Food

I hardly ever cook, Mike's the cook- he's awesome!! But he's gone at least 4 nights a week, and last year Rowan and I ate a whole lot of scrambled eggs- I'll blame the pregnancy-sickness, tiredness and the damn diabetes -for that. I'm trying to learn new things and have tried quite a few new recipes. Last night we had Pumpkin Pancakes, recipe I found here
Pumpkin Pancakes
1 cup flour
1 Tbs. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 eggs, separated
1 cup milk
1/2 cup solid pack pumpkin2 Tbs. oil
Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl, set aside. Whisk egg yolks, milk, pumpkin, and oil in a separate bowl. Stir wet mixture into dry ingredients until moistened. In a mixing bowl beat egg whites until soft peaks form; fold into batter. Pour onto hot grease griddle & enjoy! yield: 8 - 12 pancakes. Serve with Apple Cider Syrup
Apple Cider Syrup
1 cup water
1 cup apple juice or cider
1 Tb. lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
2 Tb. corn starch
1/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. cloves
1/4 tsp. allspice
1/4 tsp. salt
Combine dry ingredients and mix well. In a sauce pan heat water, apple juice or cider, and lemon juice. Slowly add dry ingredients, stirring as you add. Bring to a boil. Boil for 1 minute. Lower heat & simmer until desired thickness. Serve immediately. Leftovers can be stored in the fridge & reheated in the microwave
I even made the apple cider syrup, and even surprised myself when it turned out!! It was SOOOO good, seriously- TRY IT!! My pancakes weren't quite as colorful but I used fresh pumpkin (from our backyard pumpkin patch) and I'm guessing they used can. It made quite a bit of syrup so next time I would probably double the pancake recipe so there's not as much syrup left.
A few weeks ago I made Peach Upside-Down Cake that I saw on Vegan Linda's blog. We had a ton of peaches that Mike actually got when he went to a garage sale and noticed their huge peach tree, w/ tons of uneaten ready peaches. Also very very yummy, and definetly the fanciest looking food I've ever made. Although mine wasn't as pretty cause I didn't take the time to lay the peaches out all nice it still tasted good! I will probably try and make this again if we get some more peaches soon.

2 comments:

libbygirl said...

Your powerballs were really good, too, even with the flax seed.

Quigs78 said...

Dude, that's way too much work for me.

That's why they have Le Peep. :)

Although I do have some rotten, ahem, I mean ripe bananas that need to be magically transformed into banana muffins. That's the extent of my cooking.