Happy Pi Day!!

No, I didn’t whip up this pie this morning, this is a pic of a pie I made at Thanksgiving... but I just couldn’t resist blogging about Pie on Pi Day (March 14th, 3/14, 3.14... its a geek thing)…

Recipe will be coming later, for now just enjoy the pics… and remember…

Happy Pi Day!!

Chicken & Apple Sausage Curry

This is a simple one-pot meal that is chock full of good healthy ingredients, we had a variation of this last night for dinner accompanied with a fresh salad and some home made Sourdough bread.

Ingredients:

  Spray Olive Oil

  1 medium Onion, chopped

  1/4 pound Red Bell Pepper

  1/2 pound Green Beans, cut into pieces

  2 cups diced uncooked Sweet Potato

  4 Chicken & Apple Sausages (I use Aidell’s brand), cut into pieces

  2 tsp Curry powder

  1 1/2 tsp fresh thyme (or 1/2 tsp of dried if you don’t have fresh)

  1 tsp ground Coriander

  1/8 tsp ground Cloves

  1/8 tsp ground Cayenne

  2 cups Water

  1 Tbl All-Purpose Flour.

Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes

This is a variation of my basic Soda Pancakes recipe…

Pic is of Soda Pancakes

Ingredients:

  8 oz (by weight) all purpose flour

  2 Tbl sugar

  2 tsp baking powder

  1 tsp salt

  1 banana, mashed

  1/4 cup Nestle Mini-Morsels

  Sparkling water (see instructions)

Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, add mashed banana and stir, slowly wisk in soda until batter is pancake consistency. Prep non-stick griddle (spray very lightly with oil if needed), heat on Medium until a drop of batter makes a light sizzling sound - then its ready.  Flip cakes when 90% of bubbles on first side have burst, leave cakes on only a minute past that point. If cakes are too dark reduce heat, if too light increase heat.

Banana Spice Pancakes

This is a variation of my basic Soda Pancakes recipe…

Pic is of Soda Pancakes

Ingredients:

  8 oz (by weight) all purpose flour

  2 Tbl sugar

  2 tsp baking powder

  1 tsp salt

  1 banana, mashed

  1/2 tsp cinnamon

  1/4 tsp ginger

  1/8 tsp nutmeg

  Sparkling water (see instructions)

Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, add mashed banana and stir, slowly wisk in soda until batter is pancake consistency. Prep non-stick griddle (spray very lightly with oil if needed), heat on Medium until a drop of batter makes a light sizzling sound - then its ready.  Flip cakes when 90% of bubbles on first side have burst, leave cakes on only a minute past that point. If cakes are too dark reduce heat, if too light increase heat.

Soda Pancakes

This recipe is my own invention, and was the result of ideas planted by some friends on Weight Watchers… they make a box cake by simply mixing it with a diet soda instead of adding eggs & oil.  So I thought "hmmm, I wonder if that could be done for pancakes?" and I developed this recipe.  Since then I've gone a bit pancake crazy (as you'll see as I continue to post), but since these were my first these will be the ones I start with.  These are very basic, are free of animal products (I sense my Vegan friends smiling), and can be used as a basis for many pancake experiments.  The following makes 3-4 breakfast sized servings (depending on the size of the appetites).

Jeff ate the pretty ones before I got a pic :)

Ingredients:
  8 oz (by weight) all purpose flour
  2 Tbl sugar
  2 tsp baking powder
  1 tsp salt
  Sparkling water (about 8 oz or so - see instructions)


Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, slowly wisk in soda until batter is pancake consistency. Prep non-stick griddle (spray very lightly with oil if needed), heat on Medium until a drop of batter makes a light sizzling sound - then its ready.  Flip cakes when 90% of bubbles on first side have burst, leave cakes on only a minute past that point. If cakes are too dark reduce heat, if too light increase heat.


Top with topping of choice… I typically use fresh fruit or fruit-only preserves, though occasionally I'll add syrup… you know what you like :)


Variations: you can do all sorts of things with these…
Two variations I've posted are: Banana Spice Pancakes, and Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes.