Blueberry Pancakes

This original recipe comes out of an old cook book that a friend of mine once found at a garage sale. It has a lot of great recipes and I use it quite often. It's hard to find newer cook books that dont include mixes that I can't get here in Sweden. This is old school and everything is from scratch.

Recipe

ingredients:

1.5 cups of flour
1 tbs sugar
1.5 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 egg yolks, beaten
1.5 cups milk
2 tbs melted butter(not margarine)
2 egg whites
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/5 cup blueberries

1. Combine Flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Add the vanilla and mixture of beaten egg yolks and milk: beat until well done.
2. Beat the egg whites until stiff, not dry, lay over the batter, then add the blue berries. Fold the mix together
3. Heat your frying pan until quite hot, add a little butter and pour your batter into pancakes. Turn the pancakes when they fluff up and get lots of bubbles. Turn only once.
4. Serve the pancakes immediately on a plate and top with a little butter and real maple syrup. They can try to say the fake stuff tastes as good, but that just aint so. 

Nice sunset this evening

Chicken wings today

Link to the Recipe 

Very nice evening and beautiful sunset

Black Cherry Ice Cream Recipe

Black Cherry Ice Cream Recipe

Ingredients

For sauce

• 800grams black cherries, pitted, coarsely chopped
• 1 cup sugar

For ice cream

•  10-15 cherries pitted and chopped
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3 large egg yolks
• 5dl whole cream (40%)
• 3dl milk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Preparation

Make sauce:
Combine cherries and sugar in heavy large saucepan; toss to coat. Let stand until juices form, about 2 hours. Bring to boil; reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until liquid thickens slightly, about 12 minutes. Remove from heat. Strain cherry mixture to small bowl; reserve for use in ice cream.

Make ice cream:

Pour 3dl of cream and 1dl milk into heavy medium saucepan. Bring to boil. Remove from heat; steep 30 minutes. Whisk sugar and yolks in medium bowl to blend well. Bring half and half to simmer. Gradually whisk hot cream into yolk mixture. Return mixture to same saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until custard thickens and leaves path on back of spoon when finger is drawn across, about 4 minutes (do not boil). Remove from heat. Mix in remaining cream, milk, chopped cherries and cherry mixture. Refrigerate until cold, stirring occasionally, about 2 hours.

Using ice cream maker, process custard until almost firm, following manufacturer's instructions; add reserved 1 cup cherry mixture. Process until ice cream firms, about 15 minutes longer. Transfer to container; cover and freeze.

just pics

A little update for today. BBQ of course and a nice evening.

Midsummer

Today was midsummer and of course needed to be enjoyed with BBQ. Meat of choice today was an rib eye. I bought it in a 1KG piece and cute it into 4 very nice pieces. Some new potatoes, grilled onion and a side salad rounded the meal off nicely.

 

The weather was great today. here some pics...

Burgers and salad with Vishal

Had my friend over for a nice meal and a good talk. I made bacon and cheese burgers with a nice side
salad.For dieting, don't eat potatoes, bread or buns in the same meal. Chose just one of them and then eat vegetables. Love the burger with the grilled onion and bacon. very tasty.

what are you grilling this summer??

 

My dog Romeo after his summer cut. 

Grilled Salmon

Simple food after the trip home. Grilled salmon, baked potato, grilled onion and some salad to make sure it's healthy.

Had a great trip to visit my daughters and thoroughly enjoyed my stay with them. Now it's back to the same old same old until September when we are all going back to Canada to visit family.

The trip home was a little less than perfect. hit the remainder of a deer that the car passing me had smashed into. Looks like some repairs and money I wasn't counting on spending having to be put back into the car. Oh well, shit happens... 

Quiche Lorraine

 


I've been busy visiting family and enjoying life so I haven't had a lot of time for the blog but I'm still cooking of course. Thought I'd post some pics and then come back with the recipe another day

 Quiche Lorraine