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[taimatsu]

Very, very tired.

Japanese was good though. I understood stuff, 'n all. Yeah.

I ate pasta. I am going to have potato salad for lunch at work tomorrow, with celery and spring onion and things.

I want to make pancakes late at night for me and Robert tomorrow. How do I make pancake batter, and how do I avoid scrambling the pancakes like last time I tried?

juusu o nomimasu. mikan o mimasu. (I am drinking juice. I am looking at a tangerine.) denwa o shimasen. (I am not using the telephone.)

messy messy house. must de-mess house. Cat is very fluffy at the moment, in many senses of the word. She is cute but adds to mess.

I am going to sit up in bed and read COMPANY and their 15 sizzling sex ideas you'll want to try tonight. No really, you will. Even if you're very tired and wearing unattractive pyjamas. Even if you have the flu. You Will Want To Try These Sizzling Sex Ideas. OR ELSE.

Er. I think I will go to bed. Yes. It's safer.

Comments

[cigamerisedi.livejournal.com]

LOL

Sometimes you just make me smile. :)

You are authorized to use the family recipe.

[wednesday]

(or, "what my dad taught me when I was four, plus a couple extra bits")

1 cup plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
pinch salt
optional: 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
optional: 1 tsp granulated sugar or Splenda
optional: cinnamon powder
1 egg
3/4 - 1 cup milk
1/4 cup water (may not be needed)
Flora, or other preferred "frying things in pan" oil/marg/thing

Combine dry ingredients with fork. Stir in egg. Stir in milk (start with .75 cup and work upwards; ideal batter for American pancakes is slightly lumpy and fluid, but not runny) and, if you still want more liquid, then add the water.

Heat frying pan to about 75% of total available hot. Adjust as needed. Melt margarine/heat oil. As best you can, ladle smallish quantity (aim to take up about half the pan on first try) into oil patch, as close to center of pan as you can get. Wait until bubbles form and burst into little holes on the surface before flipping. (I use a teeny tiny drop of marg in the middle of the pancake's wet side as well; this helps get the middle crisp and keeps it from sticking when you flip. I like marg for pancakes because it's easier to control than oil.) Be prepared to have a sacrificial pancake or two for each batch, to help you determine the most effective size and heat level and so on. It's not like they won't be edible.

Serve with maple syrup and/or butter/butter substitute. Caster sugar and lemon juice be damned.

This recipe typically generates the fluffy North American pancake, which is much nicer than anything I've eaten over here that hasn't been made by me, and this is what you'll get at my place. Alternatively, you can buy a box of Bisquick and follow the directions on that; it works too.

Basic recipe

[aendr.livejournal.com]

* [2][4]6[8]oz plain white flour (6oz is 175g)
* [1][2]3[4] eggs
* 340ml or [4][8]12[16] fluid oz milk (12 floz is 340 ml)
* 85ml or [1][2]3[4] fluid oz water (3 floz is 85ml)
* pinch of salt (if you want)
some oil or nothing if a good nonstick pan

Measures variations make approximately [3][7]10[13] pancakes, another way of estimating is that it's approx 2 fl oz batter per pancake. This of course depends on the size of your pan, generosity in pouring the batter and the thickness of the batter.

Mixing Instructions
1. Break eggs into centre well of flour and add about an eighth of the milk.
2. Gradually mix in the flour, beating well.
3. Add enough of the milk to make a thick batter and beat well.
4. Stir in the remaining milk, leave to stand for at least 1/2 hour, then add sufficient of the water for thickness required. (Reserve some water for when you get to the bottom of the batter, as it thickens a bit while you're cooking the first batches of pancakes.)

Heat pan to HOT. If not using a good non-stick pan, heat oil in it first time and every few pancakes, making sure oil coats pan and pour off excess when hot (need a bowl that can cope with hot oil).

Pour pancake batter into pan, rolling around to make pancake.
Replace pan on heat and leave. After a minute or so reduce heat to medium-high and *gently* poke under sides of pancake with spatula - don't aim to pull the pancake off the pan but just test if it is loose.
I prefer to flip with a palette knife than toss, but that's personal choice.

[tithonus.livejournal.com]

a slight niggle on that japanese.. you are using the straight present/future form, not the continuous present.. so i read those as "i'm going to drink juice. i will look at a satsuma. i won't phone (them)."

have you done the -te form yet? probably by now, but you never know..

"juusu o nonde imasu. mikan o mite imasu. denwa o shite imasen."

would be better methinks.. but if you haven't done that form yet, it probably doesn't help. :-)

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

I work on making batter on a feel basis.
Put a reasonabl;e amount of flour into a bowl.
Add a couple of eggs.
Slowly add milk until it is the right consistency. (coat the back of a spoon or cream like I think)

Also batter works best if left to sit for half an hour or so.

As for cooking get the pan to a reasonable heat. I tend to use butter not oil but thats preference. Butter burns at a lower temperature. I also tend to use a non stick pan as it is easier though cast iron platters are meant to be better I never have managed to get my crepe pan to work well.

Put a ladel full of batter in.

Almost always the first one doesn't work very well and then they get better.
I also tend to have the oven on with a plate in and then as i cook them put them on that seperated with greaseproof paper. You can then both sit down and eat them together.

Anyway tonight have people coming round and got to do wheat free pancackes and possible low cab one's tonight as well.

Ingredients

[damianobf.livejournal.com]

If you haven't got ingredients yet go and get them now as some places end up sellling out of flour, and eggs etc.

Oh and yes on maple syrup :)

Though I think I am making a chocolate sauce tonight as well for the choco holics out there. Dark Chocolate + Double cream

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Finally someone who uses more eggs...

[taimatsu]

We have done the -te kudasai request form, certainly. I think we are just getting on to what you describe. Maybe.

[tithonus.livejournal.com]

the -te imasu form is just like the -te kudasai form except that it means "i am -ing" rather than "please -". nice and simple. :-)
it has lots of other uses too.. the -te form is one of the most important in the language, you'll be using it over and over and over for different things.

have *a* fun. ;-)