American Breakfast

[slycat]

Yesterday I thought I'd have breakfast out as there was no food in the house. Decided on a Wetherspoons pub as they're local and cheap. I noticed American Style Pancakes on the menu so thought I'd see how they do them. When they arrived, they were 3 tiny pancakes, the same diameter as a coffee mug and a small pot of maple syrup (however they did only cost £1.50). I knew this was not how the Americans did pancakes and so when I went to Asda, I got the ingredients I needed to make my own (Bisquick, Milk and Eggs). Needless to say, they came out much better than the Wetherspoons ones. Took a while to work out how to cook them correctly but they look ok and taste great. Sadly I couldn't find any maple syrup so had to settle for golden syrup. Here are the results:



Not the best looking pancakes, but still edible. I plan to try blueberry pancakes next time once I have something to drain the syrup from the tin of blueberries I got.

Now people reading this may wonder why I'm posting about breakfast at 5pm. Truth be told, I thought my body clock was sorted out as I went to bed at a normal UK time on Thursday and had a normal waking day on Friday. However today I woke up at around 10am tried to go online and do things but found it hard to keep my eyes open. Even the can of Mountain Dew I had didn't do anything to keep me awake so I had a snooze until around 2pm and didn't have the motivation to cook the aforementioned breakfast until 3.

Bah, I hope my body sorts itself out by Monday. Also got to do a tonne of washing before Monday too... bah, why can't I still be on holiday? Still got the holiday LJ entries to make as well while I think about it :P

Comments

[giro-batol.livejournal.com]

You should post this to furs that cook :)

To drain things in tins, open the tin without completely removing the lid, then pour the liquid out thru the gap, and then prize the lid open to remove the solid contents of the tin!

[slycat.livejournal.com]

It wasn't that hard to make, I'm sure people make much more complicated stuff on that community.

Thanks for the tip with the liquid tho.

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Looks a bit like gammon at first glance! :)

[slycat.livejournal.com]

I don't know what gammon you've seen before but if it looks like that, I think it could be off :P

[werepanther.livejournal.com]

*GRINS*

[gothicat.livejournal.com]

open the tin, put the lid back on top and hold it with a little gap for the syrup to drain into the sink, do it while water is running and it will just dilute the syrup to dispose

[rabidkiwi143.livejournal.com]

O_O I thought it was uncooked meat.

[slycat.livejournal.com]

You never seen american pancakes before?

[koebijmoonlight.livejournal.com]

You poor dear. You need to come to my house so I can make you a proper stack of pancakes.

[foxesrockyou.livejournal.com]

Next time I'm at a diner I'll be sure to save my pancakes so I can send them across the seas to you. :)

Not sure how edible they'll be by the time they get there, but they aren't too edible to being with. o.O

The best I've ever had were made from scratch by an old Finnish woman who ran a bed & breakfast up near the Canadian border. Yum!