A welcome breakfast treat!
It never seems to fail we always crave what we cannot have. A couple of weeks ago I celebrated my birthday and really had a craving for some good pancakes. I knowing that I would probably be unable to find a mix emailed my good friend Heather Hoover, who is a fantastic cook, to get her scratch pancake recipe. One of my cooking secrets is to figure out what Heather does and simply copy it. I in this case figured I could find all the ingredients and just make it here. Her recipe included flour, sugar, baking soda and power, salt, an egg and some buttermilk.
It had been a couple of weeks since that craving and still haven’t made my pancakes. Yesterday in trying to describe how to make a taco we decided to postpone that recipe but Jaclyn one of our cooks asked if I could teach her how to make something different for breakfast. It was then that I realized I had a chance to try the pancakes. I went to the store an purchased the ingredients that we were missing and this morning we learned how to make banana pancakes. I wasn’t able to find syrup but will maybe make some next time. It was amazing we had all the ingredients minus the buttermilk, I had to use powdered milk and it worked great. We mixed the batter and poured the first pancake of batter on the skillet placed the bananas and flipped. They smelled wonderful. I added some butter on top and took a taste. They were amazing, a welcome treat from half a world away. I shared with the night guards and other staff around and they all seemed to enjoy I think this will be a great addition to the menu here at Moucecore.
Some tips for other developing world travelers. Make sure you have plenty of oil in your pan so it doesn’t stick. Non-stick pans aren’t necessarily that common. Also, if you are cooking over charcoal like I was this morning a small fire will do, it will get really hot and you don’t want your pancakes to burn. Now just mix together your ingredients and start cooking you will be amazed at how great they will taste!
