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coffee and pancakes.
Mar. 31st, 2010 09:07 amI ordered more coffee today. The Longbottom Coffee people are having a special where the free shipping kicks in after only 2 bags instead of 3.
I can, probably, do better on the price, but I really like this coffee. And with the free shipping, I'm not sure I'd really be saving anything at all. If I was concerned about the price, I would have bought the coffee they have on sale instead of their signature Black Gold blend and the fancy Italian decaf. (That decaf is the best coffee blend I've ever had, but none of the non-decaf ones suit me at all. And the decaf blend doesn't come in non-decaf.) I spent $24 on 2 pounds of coffee that are both my top favorite blends.
Today's breakfast was interesting. But first the background:
I slept on the wrong side of the bed. I fell asleep during Good Eats sometime after he got out his diamond bladed grinding saw to make a homemade tandoor. So I was really sleepy. I was lying in bed and got wrapped by a giant sun squid (really hot, way more arms than seems human, floppy as cooked spaghetti noodles). I scooted away. Squid migration. I'm now freezing with one foot off the bed and the covers gaping open. I push back. Squid moves closer. I give up and go around the bed to sleep on the other side. Squid is confused by the absence of prey and sleeps after flinging his legs and arms out where I had been.
But when the alarm went off, I had to be a lot more awake than usual in order to figure out how to get up.
So I made pancakes. I used the last of the yogurt. I added a splash of cran juice to thin it out. I like buttermilk pancakes better, but have not found a really good source of buttermilk since my regular store changed dairies. I also made "syrup" by adding a spoonful of sugar to a quarter cup of hot (microwaved) cran juice. It's really wet, but the pancakes soak it up.
I can't quite give you my recipe for pancakes. I don't really measure things. But you're looking for about a cup of buttermilk, about 2/3C of flour, 1 egg, 1 T oil, 1T sugar, 1/4t baking soda, 1.5t baking powder (or less if it's really fresh), 1/2t salt. But I did it by dumping in the bottom of the quart jug of yogurt, rinsing the container with a splash of juice, adding a dollop of oil, adding 2 pinches of baking soda, using the sugar bowl spoon twice, and then adding a heaping scoop of flour. I did "measure" the egg and baking powder and salt.
The syrup thing was the novel idea. I'm going to do that again.
I can, probably, do better on the price, but I really like this coffee. And with the free shipping, I'm not sure I'd really be saving anything at all. If I was concerned about the price, I would have bought the coffee they have on sale instead of their signature Black Gold blend and the fancy Italian decaf. (That decaf is the best coffee blend I've ever had, but none of the non-decaf ones suit me at all. And the decaf blend doesn't come in non-decaf.) I spent $24 on 2 pounds of coffee that are both my top favorite blends.
Today's breakfast was interesting. But first the background:
I slept on the wrong side of the bed. I fell asleep during Good Eats sometime after he got out his diamond bladed grinding saw to make a homemade tandoor. So I was really sleepy. I was lying in bed and got wrapped by a giant sun squid (really hot, way more arms than seems human, floppy as cooked spaghetti noodles). I scooted away. Squid migration. I'm now freezing with one foot off the bed and the covers gaping open. I push back. Squid moves closer. I give up and go around the bed to sleep on the other side. Squid is confused by the absence of prey and sleeps after flinging his legs and arms out where I had been.
But when the alarm went off, I had to be a lot more awake than usual in order to figure out how to get up.
So I made pancakes. I used the last of the yogurt. I added a splash of cran juice to thin it out. I like buttermilk pancakes better, but have not found a really good source of buttermilk since my regular store changed dairies. I also made "syrup" by adding a spoonful of sugar to a quarter cup of hot (microwaved) cran juice. It's really wet, but the pancakes soak it up.
I can't quite give you my recipe for pancakes. I don't really measure things. But you're looking for about a cup of buttermilk, about 2/3C of flour, 1 egg, 1 T oil, 1T sugar, 1/4t baking soda, 1.5t baking powder (or less if it's really fresh), 1/2t salt. But I did it by dumping in the bottom of the quart jug of yogurt, rinsing the container with a splash of juice, adding a dollop of oil, adding 2 pinches of baking soda, using the sugar bowl spoon twice, and then adding a heaping scoop of flour. I did "measure" the egg and baking powder and salt.
The syrup thing was the novel idea. I'm going to do that again.
