This is the second weekend in a row I have made this Baked-in-the-Oven Apple Pancake. It is a little bit pancake, a little bit custard and a whole lotta good. The original comes from December 2009's Today's Parent: Baked Fruit "Pancakes". I subbed apples in place of the pears or plums, and sprinkled cinnamon overtop before baking. It's sweet enough that maple syrup isn't really necessary, but I opt in all the same.
For supper tonight, amongst other yummies, I made mini sweet peppers stuffed with goat cheese & pine nuts. The idea for the recipe came from the Vegetarian Salmon. I skipped the basil and salt and baked them for longer than was called for--about 20 minutes. I also sliced the peppers in half and then wedged them back together with the cheese filling as glue. They were still crunchy, even with the extended oven time. I liked them, but I'm not sure if I'd do it again.
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(Breakfast post.) If you're like me and have some pumpkin in your freezer you'd like to use up, I might recommend this pancake recipe from Cooking With My Kid: Buttermilk Pumpkin Pancakes. Olivia and I made these for breakfast this morning and it was a tasty way to start the day, without being too sweet. Full disclosure: I used one cup white flour and one cup whole wheat, although the recipe calls for two of the latter. Bonus: now I have enough pancakes in the freezer to feed Olivia breakfast en route to gymnastics for all of January, and maybe a little longer!
Early morning rush. You know the type. Need to get the kid somewhere early, awake, fed, dressed and with hair brushed. Oh, and you need to be all those things too. Well, I don't know about these mornings. My workday mornings are all about me getting me ready while G&O snooze til all hours. Yes, I can get myself out the door with relative ease, but ask me to get O ready too? Oh dear.
Olivia started gymnastics this morning. Every Saturday, 8:30 a.m., from now til Christmas. And I am on my own since Greg runs Saturday mornings with the Running Room. On the plus side, if there is one thing I am good at, it is meal forethought. So back in August, I cooked up a big batch of pancakes, froze the leftovers, and now O's meal-in-the-car-on-the-way-to-gymnastics is one Banana Oatmeal Pancake warmed up in the toaster. She loves it and it is the only pancake recipe I have that is both delicious and relatively healthy. This one has been in our keeper book for awhile, and comes from a 2008 Holiday Chatelaine. (Sorry, no picture.)
Tonight's dinner came from September 2010's Today's Parent: Oven-Braised Short Ribs with Cinnamon and Molasses and from September 2010's Chatelaine: Roasted Beets and their Greens. The ribs I am not recommending, as the sweet potatoes did not cook, although I cut them to the size suggested, and cooked them as directed, and then longer. When my kid is waiting til 7:00 p.m. to eat supper, we both want the sweet potatoes done NOW, not in another ten minutes' time. So, gone. The beets were fantastic. I made a discovery a few years ago, which is: I LOVE BEETS. Not pickled beets, which is where I had gone wrong for 28 years. Fresh beets, roasted, topped with a balsamic vinegar-olive oil dressing are amazing! My favourite beets recipe comes from Eat, Shrink and Be Merry, but I can't find it online, and I'm sorry but I'm tired and don't feel like typing it out tonight. For a back up plan, try this recipe from Chatelaine; it was good! Even better, Olivia likes beets too, which makes it 2-1 for wanting beets in the house. Yay!
