Pancakes? really? Damn, I thought I was terrible in the kitchen. lol



I can't make Beef Wellington and pate.

dannyd5050 said:

strike that from your list...i never care if mine are ' perfect circles'

dannyd5050 said:

I can't make those thick ones you call pancakes, but here is a nice recipe for crepes:
1 cup plain flour
1 egg
1 cup milk
(if you have 3 kids, triple the quantities - kids easily eat 5 each )

mix it up, let it sit 15 mins
get a big soup ladle and a smallish fry pan

put the pan on low heat, not lowest, but maybe next notch.
spray a little oil
pour in one ladleful of batter

turn it once it doesn't look shiny on the top anymore, when it's dull it's cooked through

put the finished cooked ones all on one plate, they'll stay warm in a stack until ready to serve

I feel your pain about pancakes. I can manage maybe 3 pancakes (out of 5 or 6) from a package of Jiffy blueberry. You'd think I'd have learned by now that ya gotta make a test-burn pancake, but do I - no.

noimageatall said:

maybe try undercooking the rice the day before? I always use basmati rice these days, lower GI. It is usually never sticky if cooked absorption method.

ZombieKitten said:

Thanks. Crepes sound good! What is a big soup ladle?

ZombieKitten said:

I make great plain rice. Never sticky. It's just the stir-fried that stumps me. I will try the basmati. I'm going to keep trying until I get it right.

noimageatall said:

that's very weird and you make it in a wok on pretty high heat so it doesn't just cook it more?

ZombieKitten said:

In a wok...high heat. grrrrr...hell, I even tried a packaged mix and messed it up.

dannyd5050 said:

http://www.leopardantique...0ladle.Jpg
what you serve soup up in!

noimageatall said:

maybe it's just not meant to be!

ZombieKitten said:

Okay, yes I have one of those! Didn't know what it was called though.

ZombieKitten said:

I have some hope. My son is engaged to a girl who is part Vietnamese and part Chinese who can really cook. She only just moved here from Oregon recently. I will make her teach me all her secrets.

noimageatall said:

perfect!!! I had some rice paper rolls today

ZombieKitten said:

YUM...I think we will have an Asian Thanksgiving this year.

noimageatall said:

EVERY holiday should be asian

To be honest...everything I have ever tried to make has turned out awesome but....steak. I can't make steak to save my life. I have tried...and can never figure out why it come out so bad. So I leave the steak making to the men.

MoniGram said:

Are you poking holes in it? That helps me.

hokie said:

Yum, I love vanilla in my pancakes.

That's funny, almost everything I buy is whole grain except pasta. I guess it's the Italian in me. I buy whole grain bread, waffles, tortillas, bagels, rice, and English muffins, but for macaroni it's got to be white semolina! The semolina isn't as bad for you as the bleached flour they use in baking, anyhow.

FunkMistress said:

Have you tried pasta made from farro (spelt)? It's yummy and doesn't taste any different than semolina or white flour pasta! Whole wheat pastas are common in supermarkets North Italy (pasta integrale), and the last few times I was in Lombardy I couldn't keep my hands off of buckwheat pasta in cheee sauce, it's a pasta specialty from Bergamo

...this all reminds me though that I seriously suck at cooking pasta correctly. Somehow I'm wired to screw up the concept of al dente and my pasta ALWAYS comes out too soft !

MoniGram said:

Are you poking holes in it? That helps me.