Catching up with foodblogging...

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After the (almost) inedible rice I went to visit my parents for four or five days. When I came back, the next three days in a row I made a variety of pasta dishes - all basic "pasta, tomato sauce plus some vegetables" affairs. Here's one of them:



And then I went away for another five days.

Returning home, I made pancakes with lingonberry preserve:



Not American-style, this time. Not really German-style, either, though: most German pancakes would be thicker, eggier, more rubbery. Mine are derived from a Swedish(?) recipe my mom found in some magazine during my childhood. They're thin and crispy, almost like crèpes. As a result of this I became quite the pancake snob in my childhood: I only liked my mom's pancakes, and turned my nose up at the rubbery ones that my friends' mothers produced.

Next: a first experiment with quinoa - with a zucchini and tomato sauce:



The leftover quinoa then became the main ingredient of five of these quinoa, vegetable and nut patties:



(Note to self: tasty, but don't go well with salsa/ketchup. Try another kind of sauce with them, next time.)

And then: Too Lazy to Go Grocery Shopping Soup - consisting of instant vegetable broth, a handful of "soup noodles" (tiny pasta available in a variety of shapes, to be cooked in broths), a spoonful of frozen parsley, and an egg.

Comments

[muladhara]

Those pancakes just look like pancakes to me (which in my brain results as, "That's a crepe?? What's the difference?" because obviously British pancakes are stingy). That one looks delicious! (I never think to have some sort of jam with them, which is stupid really. Will have to remember that if I ever get around to making some any time soon).

Pancakes in the UK

[hmpf]

I'm fascinated by this reply because I didn't realise pancakes were a thing in the UK, too. I don't know why!

I'm also fascinated because I don't know what you mean by "stingy" in this context - encountering a word I thought I knew, but in an entirely new context, is something that happens only rarely to me these days. Would you mind explaining this usage to me?

As for the difference between pancakes and crèpes - I'd say crèpes *are* pancakes, essentially - but compared with the typical German version of pancakes, crèpes are a lot thinner and contain fewer eggs. German pancakes sometimes almost resemble an omelette, in colour and consistency, except that of course they contain flour (and milk) whereas an omelette usually doesn't. But in the end, I suspect, every family has their own way of making pancakes, so probably there are lots of thin pancakes in Germany, too.

I think Austrian pancakes - "Palatschinken" - are usually thin, too, btw. Whereas, in my limited experience, in the Netherlands they tend to be thicker and more rubbery.

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[muladhara]

Stingy in this context: what I mean is, not much batter is used (so like being stingy with your money, except the money is batter in this example). I don't know of anyone who makes thicker pancakes in the UK - the only time you get thicker ones is premade at the supermarket. In fact, until I saw those I didn't know you could make them thicker than a sheet of paper, heh.

If that didn't make sense, say so, because I am rubbish at explaining idioms.

Re: Pancakes in the UK

[hmpf]

Makes perfect sense; sounds as if Britain and my family are pretty much in agreement on how to make pancakes. :D

Here's an image where you can see...

[hmpf]

the omelette resemblance a bit, I think:

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[muladhara]

Ah, yes. I see what you mean (must be something to do with the egg content and the way they set/cook).

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[hmpf]

Yeah, it's all about the eggs. Typical German pancake recipes tend to have about double the amount of eggs that my "Swedish" recipe has. They taste much more "eggy", too.

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[muladhara]

Hmm, I'll have to check out both versions and see if that's the case with British pancakes (less eggs, I mean).

See, this is why I like foodblogging. It makes me want to cook!