To keep all my favorite recipes in one place, reposting (with sliiiight modifications) Kottke’s world’s best pancake recipe.
2 cups flour
scant 2 tbsp sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 cups buttermilk
4 tbsp melted butter + extra butter for frying
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs, beaten
Get the pan nice and hot, melt a non trivial amount of butter in it, then fry up these pancakes.
Or griddle them at 325-350F.
Shamiq and I are making a shelf for the entryway… Or really, Shamiq is making a shelf for the entry way and I’m trying to make a side table.
I got a neat piece of sustainable wood from the Wood Bank in Berkeley a couple weeks ago, and today Shamiq filled a crack, sanded and I started sealing it.
I also started my (side) project — a bedside table and a dog bed, both from wine crates. The crate on the left has been sealed, the one on the right hasn’t.
(needs some work)
Based on this recipe.
1 cup softened butter
1 cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1.5 tsp cinnamon
3 cups oats
1.5 cups raisins
Cream together butter and sugars. Then add the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla. Mix the dry flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Combine with wet ingredients slowly. Then mix in oats. Then raisins.
Bake at 375 for ~10 minutes.
Feedback: not chewy enough. could be a little softer. and a little less sweet.
Shamiq, Emily and I went strawberry picking on Saturday and ended up with 26lbs of strawberries… Some of the things I made:
Strawberry mousse cake.
Mousse recipe adapted from Cooks Illustrated
Yellow cake from Epicurious
& “frosted” with whipped cream
Strawberry cheesecake.
Adapted from the inside of the Philly Cream Cheese Box + Chow
Topped with compote & sliced strawberries
I fell off the face of the… blog again.
Since then…
I made a 7.5″ cake for my 1 year anniversary at Sift. Layers of chocolate, cookie dough, cheese cake, banana pudding, hazelnut…
And blood orange macarons.
Bought a bunch of ink. And did a comparison. (Turns out I need some gum arabic to thicken up the ink for use with a dip pen…)
And, last weekend, planted some potatoes!
Way behind on this post… A few weeks ago, we went to breakfast at 20th Century Cafe. We tried potato knish, pierogi with plum preserves, and a bagel with smoked salmon. Conclusions: Nigella seeds are delicious. The pierogi were also excellent, the potato knish was less interesting.
I’m clearly more than a few days behind — but last night I finished up Shamiq’s kinda-late-non-denominational-holiday gift! Woo. Except now he plays burn.
The glove pattern is adapted from Fightin Words, which I followed to make myself a pair of gloves. My one (big) mistake is that the thumb seams aren’t contrasting — it’s white on both gloves. Oh well.
I’ve had a set of cheap water colors sitting around to use with my dip pen, but never really figured out how to do so… but after a couple more attempts, I figured it out.
Also it discovered that jabbing your brush in a green circle looks passably like a wreath!
(Yes, as always, behind at posting)
And my ginger liqueur is steeping! It’ll be done in time for Christmas.
I got pretty good at regular updating… Then failed.
Apparently when I knit, I don’t blog.
Moogle!