Sorry about the delay, its been a crazy couple of days. Nothing bad, just really busy. Tonight we’re going to just do a couple of quick breakfast/brunch items. I honestly don’t remember where I got these two recipes, but we’ve got pancakes from scratch and strawberry bread. TaMara should be back on recipe patrol next week!
Pancakes
(makes 8 servings)
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (Or gluten free if you need)
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon white sugar
1 1/4 cups milk
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter, melted
Directions:
In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk, egg and melted butter; mix until smooth.
Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.
—–Update—–
I now know where I got the strawberry bread recipe: right here! Over three years ago TaMara posted it. I emailed her a while back and asked: “Please tell me this isn’t your’s?” She emailed back and it is. So even when she’s taking a week off, she’s still somehow posting recipes.
Strawberry Bread
Ingredients:
1 ½ cup flour
1 cup sugar
1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp salt
½ tsp baking soda
2 eggs
½ cup butter
12 oz frozen strawberries, thawed & chopped (can also use pureed fresh strawberries, but bake for an extra five minutes)
½ cup chopped pecans
loaf pan, greased
Directions:
Combine dry ingredients. Add eggs, butter, strawberries and pecans. Stir just until all ingredients are moistened. Spoon batter into loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in pan 5 minutes then run knife around edges & remove to cool on wire rack.
schrodinger's cat
I just finished eating the last serving of the excellent bread pudding I made for Easter last week. Secret ingredient was 1/4 cup of ricotta cheese.
Adam L Silverman
@schrodinger’s cat: That’ll do it. So will mascarpone.
debbie
Does that asterisk in the strawberry bread mean something?
redshirt
Does anyone know the wonders of the superfood of the Aztecs, chia seeds?
LAO
Could I substitute the strawberries? I realize it’s called strawberry bread but I hate them.
MomSense
@schrodinger’s cat:
I love bread pudding. I’m the only one who does in my family so I never make it and now I think I will have to make a batch all for myself.
In semi gustatory news, I stopped for dinner on the way home in a sweet, little college town that is apparently hosting a men’s water polo tournament. Judging from the quantities of food and beverage consumed, those fellas burn A LOT of calories.
I caught myself staring a few times.
/Mrs. Robinson
BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt: When they grow they make good pets?
redshirt
@BillinGlendaleCA: I haven’t tried that yet, hence my questions!
I bought a bag recently, and the nutritional specs are impressive. I just never heard of it until I bought it.
MomSense
@redshirt:
Let us know what you find out. I use a lot of flax seeds/meal but haven’t tried chia.
schrodinger's cat
@MomSense: I make it when I have stale bread, easiest dessert evah.
Pogonip
Adam, you have an asterisk on your strawberry bread recipe that is missing its footnote.
MomSense
@schrodinger’s cat:
Yummiest dessert evah!
Pogonip
None of the fucking people who fucking work at the fucking rehab facility fucking talk to each other. Every fucking shift change you have to start over from fucking scratch. Dad’s getting exasperated.
Not me, though. I’m perfectly serene.
JanieM
@MomSense: @redshirt:
I ate chia seeds for the first time this week, using the simplest form of the recipe here — i.e. I mixed chia seeds, coconut milk, and a bit of maple syrup and left it in the fridge overnight before eating it. I’m eating only a bit at a time because I’m not convinced that someone with high cholesterol (me) should consume too much coconut milk. But the pudding is quite tasty! Next time I may try some chocolate and/or berries in it.
The only other thing I remember reading about chia seeds is not to put them in a smoothie unless you’re going to drink it right away, since (as with the pudding), they absorb liquid and swell up, so if you leave the smoothie overnight it won’t be drinkable, you’d have to eat it with a spoon. I’m not sure that’s fatal, but then I’m new to smoothies too.
TaMara (BHF)
@Pogonip: Or fresh strawberries.
redshirt
@MomSense: I used them in a veggie chili and wow did they expand and soak up any liquid. Not sure I dug the taste, maybe I added too much. It wasn’t terrible, but not great either. Maybe I cooked them too long, too.
I’ve got one of the weirdest diets ever though, so who knows if what I think means anything.
amygdala
@redshirt: If you ever had one of those chia pets back in the day, you might recall that after soaking the seeds in water, they get rather gooey. That feature has made chia useful in vegan circles as an egg substitute, especially for baking.
There’s also a Chia Obama, available as in happy and determined models. Or dissolute and uppity, perhaps, depending on your party affiliation.
redshirt
@amygdala: Ch-ch-ch-chia!
Are we talking about the same thing here? Are chiapets made of chia seeds?
Did I just eat a chia?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Completey OT (you’re shocked at that from me I know) –
Someone on this site tempted me to test my emotional stability by linking to a speech Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods read (for the most part) in Wisconsin. The crowd shots suggest that the attendees are enduring the performance, perhaps with some resentment for those who put them in that crowd, whether by suggestion or force. Also, too – I had no idea that “surge” is an active verb. Why was I not taught this?
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: Yes, this is actually TaMara’s recipe. I emailed and asked: “Please tell me this isn’t your’s from like three years ago!” Its hers. As I said, I didn’t know where I got it, so I’m going to update and give credit.
JanieM
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): The Boston Globe has an entertaining account of that event. (I tried to link but the link failed.)
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: Yeah, it was for instructions for using pureed strawberries. I fixed it above.
MomSense
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Last night at the Capital Steps concert, the Palin impersonator was so funny. Boy was it nice to be in a theater full of people who get the joke.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: If it was such a superfood, why are they no longer around?//
MomSense
@redshirt:
My diet is pretty strange, too.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: More seriously, I’ve put them in my protein smoothies. I didn’t feel any different. Kind of when I tried, as a martial artist, to load ginseng. Never felt like it did anything.
Adam L Silverman
@Pogonip: its been corrected.
Adam L Silverman
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Its not, she thinks she’s speaking militarese. We had the Surge in Iraq, therefore we surged into Iraq… She’s not too bright.
Baud
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
As in, Surge the Baud!?
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: Smallpox, probably.
redshirt
@MomSense: How about low carb vegetarian? I no longer eat freaking pasta!
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: I wouldn’t think you’d feel anything per shake, but over time, with many shakes. But then, I’m new to the chia.
They are wicked high in fiber.
MomSense
@redshirt:
Ha! Low carb pescetarian. I crave bread.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@JanieM: I’ll look for that (I’m masochistic that way). Her alliteration is heavy handed (unitended) and the assonance is even more abrasive. (Oops, I did it again). But I wish to G*d she’s say Donald Trump understands the art of the cilantro, or the tarragon. I’m weary of her obsession with his comprehension of dill art.
@MomSense: I can only imagine what a delight that was!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
I don’t think I want to see that.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: @MomSense: No refined carb omnivore. Lean, and usually grass fed, beef, bison, chicken, lamb, turkey, fish, seafood (the seafood isn’t grass fed…), nuts, protein powder, fruits, and veggies.
redshirt
@MomSense: LOL. Bread is literally a cheat item for me now. There’s a local bakery that makes this rosemary bread that’s to die for. I eat a couple of slices on Sunday with eggs and feel guilty.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: What do you mean by refined carbs? The difference between carbs from fruit versus the carbs from Trisquits?
amygdala
@redshirt: I had one as a kid. it was a hollow terra cotta critter that was soaked in water while the chia seeds were also soaked in a separate container. Then you slathered the gooey seed mix over the little animal (or head or whatever) and kept it filled with water so it would germinate. It never occurred to me to try to eat either the seeds or the sprouts.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Adam L Silverman: You know that, and I know that, but pedant that I am, it’s painful. Clearly she’s dumber than a bag of hammers (and I expect a call from counsel for hammers any minute now), but she mentioned “surging the middle class (or something).
I wish I could find the Globe link. I’ve sensibly turned off the video as I know I’m not stable enough to endure any more of it.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: I suggest not googling.
LAO
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):Not super responsive, but years ago I worked with a lawyer that grew up in Texas, and she used to say “dumber than a dog named fuck”.
It always made me laugh.
MomSense
@Adam L Silverman: @redshirt:
Have you seen the Michael Pollan/Netflix series Cooked? Really good.
My kids are omnivores so I do buy and prepare plenty of poultry, beef, lamb, etc. I buy from local farms which is pricier. With the switch to local food I find that I spend the same amount for less but it tastes wonderful.
If I splurged and ate a pice of bread, I think it would be all over. The police would find me in a bakery passed out in a heap of mostly eaten loaves like the sad guy in the movie Chocolat in the Easter display window.
JanieM
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Trying again the non-fancy way:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/04/02/hot-dish-malarkey-wisconsin-fish-fry/qMh5NldkO2BIXPSZRS3HCK/story.html
(I.e. using the link button didn’t work….)
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Yep, raw or cooked vegetables. And largely raw fruits, though there are these really good stewed apples I eat. I also eat steel cut oatmeal and brown rice. Something I was exposed to in Iraq messed up my GI system. I went for about a year – last year – with minimal issues. About January I started having real problems again. My GI doc thinks that in this current cycle I’m gluten intolerant, but he doesn’t want to retest me – (in 2011 I almost ran out of things for them to sample and biopsy looking for something – nothing tested positive despite the very real symptoms). So I just do things the easy way and cut it all out. I did find a decent gluten free pizza when I feel the need to cheat. And I’ve found some gluten free macaroons that haven’t messed me up – I test ate five around 4:30. It seems as long as I avoid refined carbs, and anything with gluten, I’m good to go.
Steeplejack
@schrodinger’s cat:
Any particular bread that you favor, or just whatever you have on hand?
@MomSense:
I really like bread pudding but never make it. Then today I had the cooking shows on TV in the background and Kelsey (of Kelsey’s Essentials) piqued my interest with a “tres leches bread pudding” done in a slow cooker. I’ve been on a bit of a slow-cooker jag lately, so that caught my interest. It looked good, but I don’t have the “take it to the bank” confidence in her show that I do in some others. I might give it a try, though.
She used challah bread in her recipe.
Adam L Silverman
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I’ve seen articles about the speech. Its been universally panned as terrible. I’m sure Trump’s check cleared though.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
Challah bread is delicious just plain. I bet it would be tasty as the base for bread pudding.
My bread cravings are off the chart now!
redshirt
@MomSense: Big question, but since you cook meat for your kids, why don’t you eat it yourself? Feel free not to answer as it’s none of my business.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@JanieM: ZOMG – that’s amazing.
It’s witty and less painful than watching any of the event on tape. Well, except for the crowd shots, which were quite humorous.
LAO
@redshirt: I don’t know if you shop at trader joe’s but the just came out with a Rotini made out of black beans. I picked up a package but haven’t tried it yet. http://www.traderjoes.com/digin/post/organic-black-bean-rotini
ETA: oops. It’s high in cards. So no good for you.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: I’ve been working an actual carb count for 1.5 years now – so that’s cut out most if not all fruit too. Heck, even milk is rationed.
It’s insane, and yet I feel so awesome I can’t complain. I can feel the difference between this and the heavy carb lifestyle. It’s just extremely limiting selection wise.
Baud
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I wonder if Joe Lieberman is grateful to Sarah Palin for taking the “Worst Veep Pick Evah” crown away from him.
LAO
@LAO: damn autocorrect. Carbs not cards
seaboogie
@Adam L Silverman: Hey Adam, The instructions for the Strawberry bread mention mixing the oil and eggs together, but the ingredients do not include any oil that I can see.
Adam L Silverman
@MomSense: Its what I use for both bread pudding and french toast.
redshirt
@LAO: That’s not bad at all, as the rule I use is dietary fiber cancels out carbs so it comes down to 15G or so per serving which is manageable. I’ll check it out – thanks for the tip!
Steeplejack
@MomSense:
Sorry, I should have read further down the thread before becoming an enabler!
MomSense
@redshirt:
High cholesterol and after awhile I just didn’t want it anymore. From time to time I do think about going back to eating meat but it usually passes.
Adam L Silverman
@redshirt: Fruit doesn’t bother me. But I’m mostly eating bananas, strawberries, and blueberries in my protein smoothies. And then apples. Occasionally watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, and pineapple.
MomSense
@Steeplejack:
It’s ok as bread is never far from my thoughts. If it didn’t make me feel so crappy I would eat nothing but bread.
Adam L Silverman
@seaboogie: hmm… I will email your question to Tamara.
MomSense
@Adam L Silverman:
Mango banana smoothies are delicious. Trader Joe’s sells really good frozen mango. It has better flavor than the mango I can get up here.
redshirt
@Adam L Silverman: As it shouldn’t. But there are cycles in which I go nearly carb free and alas, fruit has to go too.
How about a vegetarian that doesn’t eat fruit? Weird, right?
LAO
@Adam L Silverman: it’s the butter not oil. (I bet at some point you or Tamara substituted the oil with butter).
schrodinger's cat
@MomSense: I second the TJ mangoes recommendation. I make mango smoothies with non-fat yogurt. Sometimes I will add silken tofu to it.
LAO
@MomSense: if it wasn’t for trader joe’s I would starve to death.
TaMara (BHF)
@seaboogie: It looks like the recipe is missing the 1/2 cup butter or oil. Here is the original recipe.
schrodinger's cat
@LAO: I find their Indian offerings a bit disappointing. They are great for nuts and frozen fruits, though.
MomSense
@LAO:
Me too.
@schrodinger’s cat:
Silken tofu is a great idea. TJ has some good frozen Indian meals. The palak paneer is pretty tasty.
Adam L Silverman
@MomSense: I’m pretty sure that frozen mango does not pair well with two scoops of Syntha 6 chocolate milkshake flavored protein powder.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: Thanks! Just fixed it.
Adam L Silverman
@seaboogie: LAO correctly pointed out the transcription problem: oil replaced butter in the directions. I’ve fixed it up top.
LAO
@Adam L Silverman: I may be a lousy cook but I’m a dedicated baker.
Adam L Silverman
@TaMara (BHF): The 1/2 cup of butter is in the ingredients. I think I transcribed oil for butter in the directions.
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: If you had written committed baker I would have asked if they had you in custodial care.
LAO
@Adam L Silverman: and I hate myself because I would have gotten your joke. (Understand, I hesitate to call it a joke).
Adam L Silverman
@LAO: Funny story: my second year at USAWC one of my students, a Kentucky National Guard lieutenant colonel at the time (now a full colonel), complimented me and my fellow faculty team members for our seminars to someone while I was in ear shot. He said that we were the most committed group of faculty at USAWC he had seen. My response was “its true, we all have to be back in custodial care by 1630 every day.”
It was a very nice compliment though.
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman:
So, wait a minute…you don’t actually EAT any of these delicious recipes you’ve laid out for us, you just TAUNT us with them? : )
Because I should actually get back to the sort of diet you are talking about…I lost 35 lbs back in the day by doing just that, 15 of which have crept back up on me since I relaxed the “no bread no beer” rule…sigh…
rikyrah
I went to a new breakfast place and ordered one of my tried and true test menu standards for breakfast: Ham, eggs over easy, hash browns, plain pancakes. If a breakfast place can’t get this staple right, no need to go back. The ham, while a generous portion, was a bit dry. But, overall, it was a good meal. I’ll try the place again.
Steeplejack (phone)
@rikyrah:
A reasonable test.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
That is a high standard—maybe too high a bar when looking for a “good enough” breakfast place. But a valuable metric nonetheless.
ETA: One of my litmus tests for Mexican restaurants is the guacamole.
The Lodger
@LAO: A committed baker? Would your bakery be called House of Carbs?
Mart
Of 2 lbs bought had thirteen and a half ounces of strawberries after cleaning. Just starting to show a little narlyness. Was going to freeze for smoothies, instead read this and they just went in the oven.
Peter VE
I’ve been making pancakes with the Joy recipe for 30 years, and they call for 1/2 that amount ( 1 3/4 tsp instead of 3 1/2 ) of baking powder. For extra taste, grate some lemon rind into the batter.