Breakfast: Whole-wheat banana pancakes with cinnamon and honey, freshly brewed coffee and papaya, had at 9.45 am today. Slightly cold, thanks to Meggie who wants to see pictures of everything I eat today! Lovely, all the same. You want pancake recipe?
Take 2 bowls, one larger than the other. In the bigger bowl, mix one small cup of whole wheat flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder and a pinch of salt, using wire whisk.
In the smaller bowl, use electronic hand blender (or wire whisk) and mix one small cup of milk, 1 tablespoon sugar (more or less according to your taste), 1 or 2 tablespoons oil.
Slowly add the wet mixture to the dry one, gently whisking it as you mix. Finally, mash 1 large or 2 small/medium ripe bananas to the batter. Sprinkle half a teaspoon of cinnamon powder and mix well.
Heat non-stick pan/griddle/tava and pour enough batter to make a medium sized pancake. Don't make them too large or you won't be able to flip. Keep the flame on sim and wait till you see bubbles appear on the pancake and the sides start to appear cooked. Takes about 3 minutes. Then flip and let it cook for a minute or two on the other side.
Transfer hot pancake onto plate. Douse with honey, maple syrup or cough syrup if that's what you like. Remember me with each bite that you take. But first, don't forget to take pictures!
Lunch: Mushroom pulao, carrot and cucumber salad in vinaigrette
Meggie asked me to stick to the plan. Obviously, I did not! But it's not too bad. Instead of the bake, I made a mushroom pulao with carrot and cucumber salad. Will eat in a few minutes so can't say anything about the taste as yet. It does smell good though, and I'm sure my goddess Tara approves :-)
Mushroom pulao recipe from here, with slight variations.
Dinner: Stir-fried chicken with cashew nuts and hakka noodles, salad
I completely changed the menu for dinner! I could not go to the fish market for a number of reasons and I did not feel like making my favourite comfort food without the prawns. So I ordered some chicken breasts instead and decided to go Oriental for dinner. Rustled up a stir-fry from this recipe, bunged in some boiled hakka noodles and Sawasdee Kha! The result was beautiful!
I felt like a chilled beer after I was done tossing the noodles but I hate to drink and eat (unless it's snacks or starters). I also couldn't drink first and then eat because as we all know, it's a crime to eat cold noodles.
So that was my foodie's day in. I think I'm done cooking for the month. Not done eating though, so I am open to breakfast, lunch and dinner invites, and/or receiving food parcels at my humble abode.
17 comments:
I love pancakes....... yearn for one now, but can't get one until I reach home in a couple of week's time. I so envy u CC!!
@PNA - Why can't you have pancakes until you go back home? Which godforsaken part of the world are you in, where there are no happy mornings with hot pancakes for breakfast? Come here, I'll flip you some. There's always extra batter anyway :-)
Cough syrup CC?
@Pat - Just trying to be funny. I can see I failed miserably :-)
Nice! :)
Hey the last time I came to your site (maybe last week or early this week) it kept opening multiple windows. Was afraid of downloading a virus!
L
@L - That multiple windows thing happens to me as well. But not with my blog, it happens with random sites. It's a pain!
yippee...my favourite writer becomes a food blogger :)
I admire anyone who can make bread, cakes, pancakes and/ or music
I am making kosha murgi, a cholsterol friendlier version of Kosha Mangsho (bengali slow cooked mutton), doi maach (fish curd), pulao rice (steamed rice with a bit of ghee and condiments pushed in) and stir fried mushrooms. Friends coming over dinner and they wanted at least one dish cooked by me. Love cooking for folks. so as the teen song goes 'tonight will be a good night'
psst click pics and then micro
as we Bongs say, chalie jao
@Knife - Me and food blogger? Don't say such blasphemous things! I have neither the patience nor the dedication and not to forget, the talent for it. I can cook and I can eat, but I can't blog about it as well as you. I don't even take nice pix because I'm too impatient.
Look at that spread you have planned. You are truly an inspiration!
YAY! you "cooked and tooked" pictures
good girl :D
puloa is ever better. and it looks absolutely yummy, even though you -dont- have the patience to take nice pictures :P
dinner soon. ill be back!
;)
@Meggie - I don't have a nice camera either :-(
Btw, the mushroom pulao is not very visually appealing but it smells and tastes just divine. It was my new discovery today and I think I'm going to make it often.
Inspiration aaur main???? LOL
I agree about cold nnodles. That's why I perefer my onw bacon hakka to restaurant stuff.
I once read a nice quote about pasta.
You can wait for pasta. Pasta won't wait for you
It was funny. I was teasing you;)
Love u, love too CC waiting:) No kitchen in the place I'm put up these days... and the cooks here don't think of pancake as an option for any meal:(
That looks like awesome meals, all those photographs... yumm!
you actually took pictures et al
;)
very good girl.
but
how was today? dont tell me you lived on water and leftovers again?
!!
@Meggie - Yes, but they were some nice leftovers, wouldn't you say? I'm making the bottle gourd and prawn today, but no pictures and definitely no blogging! This blog has to get back to its esteemed status of being the blog about nothing :D
yeah right!
like it ever was!
i say and say how brilliant you are and yet...
you should teach a class in self-depreciation
:|
@Meggie - Thank you dear girl but I wasn't being self-effacing. It is a blog about nothing - it has no focus, that's what I meant. You never know, one day you might come here and find naked pictures of Jude Law! And I could be in some of them (being fended off by burly security men, but still I could be in them!).
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