Dinner Tonight

  • Sep. 3rd, 2009 at 11:26 PM
johanna - cooking
I wanted pancakes for dinner tonight. I'm not really sure why. Then I figured, I'll make a Dutch Baby. Because I had never made one before and it seemed like a reasonable thing to do.


Amazingly enough, they're supposed to look like that. I used Alton's recipe because he's generally the guy I go to when I'm trying something new.

Of course, man can not live by pancake alone...


Dutch baby, apple sausages, cinnamon-sugar apples (the boy said I should have baked them; he's right, but they were a last-minute addition), and scrambled eggs (made with local eggs, a touch of milk, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and sweet paprika). The cast iron pan faces off against the All-Clad pan, but no worries: the battle ended deliciously.

So, yeah. In case it's not obvious, breakfast for dinner is one of my favorite things. And the Dutch baby was actually really easy to do, and would be yummy filled with fruit (or drizzled with Nutella, mmm!).

And now that the weather has taken a cooler turn (finally! But I expect it's just teasing me) I shall be back in the kitchen and cooking up a storm -- it's far more pleasant to have a hot oven going when removing clothing is an option and not something you HAVE to do to keep cool.

Vanilla!

  • Apr. 9th, 2009 at 3:54 PM
johanna - cooking

A year's worth of brewing and I now have 6.5 shiny bottles of homemade vanilla extract! 4 ounces each, meaning in total it made 26 ounces.

Now I need to buy some more vanilla beans so I can do it again, perhaps using rum (I used vodka as a base this time -- no, you can't taste it, it's very much vanilla at this point).

Having done this, I must find something new to conquer in the kitchen...making my own cheese, maybe? Or maybe making my own butter...or I'd love to learn how to brew beer but we don't have the space for that...

I think my new mission is to get a new kitchen ;)

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