Not many days left to peel back on the advent calendar. In no
time at all, it’ll be Christmas morning—and that, my friends requires a sugar
and carb infusion of the highest order. New word for “short-stack” anyone? I’m drawing
from my Sunday Best repertoire on
Wednesday, December 25th and would advise anyone with the same lust
for life (and pancakes) to stock up this weekend on King Arthur Flour—the best
for pancake house-style flapjacks—eggs, sugar, butter—the essentials for enough
fluffy pancakes to take everyone through the learning curve of new gadgets and
sporting equipment sitting under your tree.
I believe the headlining photo on this blog, featuring Buttermilk
Blueberry Pancakes with Berry Good Maple Syrup, can revv up the family
on Christmas morning and turbo power their snow shoes! I haven’t made a habit
of posting many of my book’s new recipes on my blog, but am doing so today as a
gift to those “birds of a feather” out there who love pancakes as much as my
family does. Other Christmas Day secrets that can put the wow factor into a
Chris Cringle inspired table setting involve my Monkeying Around Bread (fun at any age!), trick for making inside
out omelets, Canadian Bacon prepared just so (click on this Chipotle
Spiced Bacon post to learn how to make it a legend in your household, too)
and Cranberry Oatmeal Scones with Pine nuts.
For those bolded recipes, there is still
plenty of time to download Sunday Best
Dishes, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. It really makes a great Xmas gift!
Other Winter Day
Breakfast Ideas….Faking Buttermilk in a pinch, etc…..
Buttermilk Biscuits with a savory gravy are also a great way
to go for Christmas breakfast….but what if you open the fridge only to find
you’re running low on precious buttermilk?
A lot of Apple commercials would tell you there’s an app for that. I
won’t offer you that as a solution,
but I can pass on a little cooking trick that can turn plain old milk into a
buttermilk knock-off for all your breakfast recipes. Just pour ¾ cup of milk
into a measuring container, add 2 tablespoons of white vinegar and set the
mixture aside for 5 minutes at room temperature. The result is as close to
actual buttermilk as it needs to be.
If kids are part of
the Christmas package this holiday season….
Here are a few tips for decorating pancakes in ways that’d tickle
Santa pink!
- · Use sliced strawberries and cover the top half of the pancake with them to represent the red-felt hat. Squirt a big dollop of whip cream for the powder puff on top of Santa’s hat and continue on with the Ready-whip to make the big white beard.
- · Banana slices with Hershey’s kisses in the center make great eyes and maraschino cherries are a terrific nose!
- · Triangles of French toast can be arranged into a Christmas tree, with a star shaped cut of pineapple just prefect for the star on top!
- · Make Rudolph using bacon for antlers, blueberries for eyes and a dime sized pancake in the middle, strawberry on it, for the world-famous nose.
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