Red, White & Blueberry Pancakes

My parents were in DC for the 4th of July and it was Elena’s half-birthday, so I decided to do something special for breakfast. Overnight pancakes are great when you are cooking for company. I cut down the amount of yeast to 1 tsp and skipped the cinnamon and instead went with a little grated […]
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Super Banilla Yogurt Pancakes

Necessity is the mother of invention…and sometimes really great dishes. This dish came about because we were low on milk and couldn’t go without it in out coffee. So instead of sparing some to make pancakes, we followed Mark Bittman’s advice and tried using yogurt instead. We didn’t use any old, ordinary yogurt though…we used […]
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Okonomiyaki – Japanese Pizzas

Last week I volunteered as an assistant at CulinAerie, a cooking school across the street from my office. CulinAeire has a great space with lots of professional equipment. Their convection oven makes me a little jealous. The class I helped out with was “Japanese Bistro” and it taught us all how to make some of […]
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Further experiments in Pancakes

I made another batch of overnight yeast pancakes last weekend and they came out great again. Of course I had to play with the recipe a little. I used only 1tsp of instant yeast. There was definitely less of a yeast taste in the pancakes, but they still had no problem rising. So if you […]
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