Haines His Way

And One For Mahler

GERMAN BREAKFAST PANCAKES


serves 6

6 Eggs
1/8 ts Salt
1 c Flour -- unsifted
12 c Milk
1 t Sugar
1/4 lb Butter
- Powdered Sugar

Preheat oven to 450°F.

Lightly beat eggs with salt. Gradually add flour to milk, blending until smooth. Add this mixture and the sugar to the eggs and blend well. Place the butter into the cast iron skillets and place them into the oven until butter melts. Brush butter up sides of skillet(s). Add the batter to the pan and bake for 15 minutes, or until the pancakes rise and puff and are lightly browned. Lower the temperature to 400°F if pancakes are browning too fast. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve immediately with one or more of the toppings suggested below.

Topping Suggestions: Fruit jam, fresh berries, sliced fresh fruit, sour cream, applesauce, sugar and cinnamon.

At the restaurant we first tried these at, The Original Pancake House, they use a similar pancake but serve it one of two ways.

An Apple Pancake is served with warmed Fried Apples (like Cracker Barrel's)/Apple Pie Filling inside the middle.

The German Pancake is served with the powdered sugar sifted over the middle and fresh squeezed lemon juice squirted on top of that. When served, just take a butter knife and spread the powdered sugar and lemon juice out over the rest of the middle of the pancake.

Dim Sum my favorite place is in Montreal at Maison Kam Fung (Kam Fung House) I wish I could find one in Florida where I live that is just as good

Evening all!

The root canal wasn’t as bad as I thought.  In fact, I feel much better.  My tooth isn’t throbbing and the Advil seems to be doing the trick as far as pain control.

The doctor was a real cutie but way to young for me.  He said I was one the best patients he’s worked on.  When it was over and he said it was nice to meet me, I told him I’d like to say, “We’ll have to do this again sometime but I think not.”  He got a big kick out of that.  

The worst part was when then put the dam in my mouth.  A piece of rubber that stretched over my entire mouth.  I had told the assistant before it started that I was mouth breather and she said she would put a hole in it for me.  She did but for a moment or two there I was honestly very close to a panic attack.  

I am a little tired.  It might be the meds.  

Breakfast foods.  Hummm, you know on the weekends I’m lucky if I eat one meal a day.  I do love bacon and eggs.    Pancakes, waffles, French Toast....  That was one thing I really enjoyed on my trip.  The eating.  Breakfast, especially.   Yum!

Glad you came through it so well, Danise!

I'm still thinking about German pancakes... Ich bin ein Pancaker.

One of the options is to click on the "stay connected" section. I did. What came up is "This URL cannot be accessed!"

LOL!

I was an AOL subscriber for about five years.  About two years ago, Michael and I decided that AOL was not for us...and what a good decision that turned out to be!  Our current internet provider is infinitely better, and better still, local.  Which means they can send people to your house and fix what needs fixing.

Customer service!  What a concept!

Okay, end of anti-AOL rant.

Finally back after a very long seven hours at Mr. Grant Geissman's house, doing some very interesting things.  We did take an hour for lunch and I WOULD have had breakfast but I hate the place we went (Mel's Diner) and their breakfasts are no good, so I played safe and had a BLTA and onion rings.  A small egg-based meal could be in the offing later.

Thanks to all for keeping the home fries burning, especially with such splendidly splendid posts.  We must do a hainsies/kimlets west coast Pantry meet soon.

Yes, the old AOL adaptor.  It, of course, fixes nothing.

I just made myself scrambled eggs with mushrooms and turkey sausage for dinner. Yum. But no German pancakes. Sigh...

Tonight is the season premiere of Nip/Tuck. An excellent show. Vanessa Redgrave will be guesting as the randy mother of series regular (and daughter) Joely Richardson. The whole first season is available on DVD.

I'm going out to get some ice cream. Perhaps they have a German Pancake flavor.

I will part company with those of you who are fond of chipped beef on toast. Oh, I can eat it, and did fairly often growing up. My dad, an army man, loved it, so my mom would cook it for him.

But I can't say I've had it in 30 years or more.

Good Evening!

I'm back from my second walk of the day... I needed it.  Not only to help the dinner I had earlier to settle in my stomach, but also to walk off some "bad" news I got earlier this evening.  I'm actually still in shock about it - more shock actually than disappointment right now.  -And, I guess, even a little bit of anger.  It's just one of those situations where I never thought anything could go wrong.  Heck, I approached them about the project.  And since I've been working with this organization for years at this point... And I even devoted a couple of weeks to them recently on my own time and own dime.  For all I knew, everything was still on track.  But, as it turned out, someone else somehow entered the picture.  And, worst of all, it appears that the decision was made a few weeks ago, and I was just informed tonight.  By e-mail.  And I've been attempting to follow up on things for the past couple of months(!), but did not receive any word back until tonight.  So... What can you do?  Well, I'm gonna attempt to get some answers to the plethora of questions I have currently racing through my head - that's what I'm gonna do tomorrow.

The news really did throw me for a loop.  On a professional, I can take it.  But there is actually some personal history involved here, and that's what makes it hurt.  Makes it shocking.

What I'm hoping is that I misread the e-mail, but since the e-mail was only two sentences long(!), I doubt it.  But I can dream, can't I?

On the bright side of things, I can at least take myself out of that "holding pattern".  But since I was also kept in a "waiting mode" yesterday, this was not what I needed tonight.

Ah, well...

OK - End of rant... Hopefully, I won't have to rant again tomorrow.

The walk helped, and I even bought some Lotto tickets on the way back.  Alas, I didn't win tonight - they just showed the drawing on TV.  Oh, and I bought an old-fashioned popsicle, cherry-flavored.  So much pleasure in simple things.

I caught the beginning and the end of the AFI's "100 Years, 100 Songs" special.  Interesting choices all around.  No real surprises, imho, although, undoubtedly some favorites have been left out, and there were probably some questionable choices and rankings in the minds of some people.  But the list was already whittled down from 400 choices - and it's good to know that the original "ballot" would have been much, much longer.

-I just have to ask... What the heck happened to John Travolta?!?!?  He was hard to watch, and hard to listen to after a while.

DR Jose wrote: "What the heck happened to John Travolta?!?!?  He was hard to watch, and hard to listen to after a while."


I didn't watch the show, so I have to ask what you mean by this? Was he old? Fat? Sarcastic? Bored?