This was a week of weddings and birthdays, polished off with the finale of the NAMI walk which is probably the best NAMI event in this country, because in New Orleans, there is no walking, there is only second lining. We marched to the Rebirth Brass Band around Audubon park with a miniature army of […]
Category: Waffles/Pancakes/Crepes
Millet Scallion Pancakes and Gospel Jazz on Sunday
Last night I dreamed that water was gurgling up through the cracks in the hardwood in this house. Our kitchen became Yellowstone National Park. I ran to the front door and looked outside to see that we had bought a house right on the line where the ocean meets the shore. I can’t tell if […]
Dulce de Leche Crepes and Buddhist Driving
I think I am a Buddhist when it comes to driving. That said, I usually walk or moped to the places I need to go. But when I do drive, I get no road rage. I do not speed. Why would I push the pedal to the floor with every green light when I know […]
West Texas Chili on Cornbread Waffles for Voldemort
I started using a new mascara recently which apparently turns to ash and rains onto the gutters under my eyes, so that each time I find a mirror throughout the day I startle at the face of Voldemort who also happens to be me. Or maybe I really am that tired. This is a morbid […]
Lemon Ricotta Pancakes with Caramelized Apples
It’s Memorial Day Weekend and the Fun Meter is on Max. Three day weekend means three opportunities to lavish in a home-cooked breakfast. You must try these. WoW. Lemon Ricotta Pancakes with Caramelized Apples Adapted from Food and Wine 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more for greasing 2 crisp red apples, peeled, cored and cut […]
Hearty Oatmeal Pancakes
It feels like Christmas. The tree is up with gifts underneath for our Calvary film club event next week. Holiday cards are rolling in. Lights and holly are hung high. Kenny G (I admit without shame) is intermittently taking a spin through the CD player. And my Saturday mornings are free, gloriously free, for writing […]
Mother Bunn’s Yum Yum Sourdough Waffles
Here is a silly random I found amid more serious bread recipes in The Village Baker. No explanation about who Mother Bunn is, Yum Yum is a colloquialism not otherwise found in the book. It almost looks like a prank—a bogus recipe one of the copy editors was bet twenty dollars by his buddy to […]
Miners’ Sourdough Pancakes
I set out to answer one question, why these pancakes are called Miners’ Sourdough. Next thing you know, I’m buried in May Kellogg Sullivan’s book The Trail of a Sourdough: Life in Alaska (1910), the memoir of a woman who self-identifies as a Sourdough, which she defines as “a miner who has spent one winter in […]
Moo Shu Pancakes
Why so many Chinese breads, Rachel? Well, when China takes over the world, I want to be ready with my peace offerings. Let’s keep her, she makes a mean shaobing and moo shu pancakes. And then, hands pressed, I bow graciously. Why, of course I’ll be the Emperor’s Baker. Beijing Pancakes aka Moo Shu Pancakes […]
Buckwheat Pancakes
Buckwheat is merely grain-like, more related to rhubarb than to wheat. It is gluten free, as are these pancakes en totale. This is was my first buckwheat experience. If you had asked me to describe buckwheat prior to today, I would have probably stuck out my front two teeth and whistled out the side. Buckwheat […]