Happy Mutants food and drink topic (Part 1)

The centre of the bread should be slightly mоist.
Well, that’s how I used to make it, anyway. I’m more into Belgian waffles these days.

ETA: just to satisfy my curiosity - when you say live-in psycho, do you mean in your flat or in your head?

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In my flat. It’s a play on live-in SO.

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Eu3E

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You have to consider the heat. Fully soaked works if you’re baking it or if you use low heat, but it’ll totally fall apart and be raw-eggy if you heat it on the stove so that it toasts on the outside long before the egg is fully cooked throughout.

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Melbourne, Australia. The season’s just started here.

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Fair enough. Seems a bit early, still, ours (Europe) aren’t ready till Nov or Dec, usually.

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If you take a blob block of frozen spinach and add some sour cream and herbs and mustard you’ll get a quick but decent pasta sauce.
If you have some sauce left over you can spice it up a bit and use it as a dip for nachos or chips.

Today’s digestiv:


ETA: correction.

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Thanks!

These days I especially appreciate recipes that fulfill 3 criteria: quick, easy, and nevertheless delicious.

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Might be handy when the larder runs low…

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Fajitas with potato and Mexican-style chorizo, jalapeño and red bell peppers, onion, and garlic:

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This is my “The One Ring” buttermilk pancake recipe. I named it after the best item name in the entire game of WOW (wich I use to mainline a few years back) The item was a green ring you could fish that had a buff of 1 for each main player stat. Makes four large fluffy pancakes.

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Dry

  • 1 Cup Unbleached All Purpose Flour
  • 1 Tablespoon Shugar
  • 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 1 Half Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1 Quarter Teaspoon Salt

Wet

  • 1 Cup Buttermilk
  • 1 Egg
  • 2 Tablespoons Melted Butter
  • 3 Tablespoons Milk

Instructions

  1. Mix all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl with a whisk thoroughly (about 1 min) and put aside.
  2. Mix Egg, Buttermilk, 2 of the three Milk spoonsfulls in a second mixing bowl with whisk.
  3. Add third Milk spoonfull to melted butter to cool so it does not cook the egg when added.
  4. Add melted butter slowly to wet mix while whisking
  5. Whisk wet thoroughly. (About 1 min)
  6. Pour wet mix onto dry mix and make sure to use a spatula to get it all out of wet bowl.
  7. Using spatula, not whisk, incorporate wet into dry. Folding, not stirring until no dry visible. If there are no lumps you mixed too much and they will be rubbery. Mix as little as possible.
  8. Let sit at room temperature for five minutes to let acid from buttermilk react with baking soda.
  9. Fry on a hot griddle coated with butter. Water droplets should dance on griddle but not immediately evaporate when the right temperature. Butter the griddle, then immediately add half a cup of batter. If butter burns, the griddle is too hot.
  10. If in three minutes there are no little bubbles on top and a browning bottom then the griddle is too cool.
  11. Three minutes per side, serve immediately with butter and Grade B Maple syrup.

I make them with Bacon and fresh squeezed mimosas every Saturday but that is an option and not a requirement.

Enjoy!

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Very similar to my version. I just use metric:

250g flour (320g for waffles)
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking soda
0.5 tsp salt

500ml buttermilk
3 eggs
60g butter, melted in the microwave

I use a Tefal crepe pan, one of the best recent purchases I have made.

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Henkele toast.with goat’s cheese.
If you as much as insinuate that this is just a variation of Hawaiitoast I’ll have to take issue with you.

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Bah! Metric is for amateurs. Any fool can measure by tenths and hundreths, real men use measurements based on the width of roman horse’s ass.

Jokes aside, I have an old cast iron griddle that is fantastic for pancakes. Unfortunately, I can only make two at a time so I have to put the first two in the oven until I make the second two or the cook eats alone

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Using the oven as a warmer until all are done is what I do as well. I set a flat stonewear plate in the oven at 100°C, and transfer each from the pan to the oven.

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Then you will have to take issue with me.

For the record, my dinner today is Nürnberger Bratwürste with Pimientos de Padron and some fresh white Alsatian bread. Long live the EU.

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Just to torture you, the evidence.

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Plus Estragon Senf?

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Nope, no tarragon mustard today. Just the pure taste of the peppers with coarse salt, the fresh white bread and the tangy umami of the sausages. And since it was at 4pm, I decided for some Menthe à l’eau instead of a beer or wine.

But now it’s time for a nice Kellerbier from Kulmbacher Mönchshof.

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