Posted by Erin Zimmer, March 7, 2008 at 10:00 AM
The robust winter grain doesn't get much love, but it's actually inspired an annual festival in West Virginia, and has created an emerging gluten-free beer market, cereal options galore, and day jobs for these two dudes, Cliff Orr and Andrew Schuck. They work at the 200-year-old Birkett Mills factory in New York's Finger Lakes region, where they chaperoned the two girls behind Kitchen Caravan, a delightful online cooking show, around the scene—even showing them the griddle where the world's largest buckwheat pancake was created! Speaking of pancakes, check out Kitchen Caravan's recipe for much smaller pancakes, the Russian-style buckwheat blinis with smoked salmon.
Posted by Robyn Lee, February 5, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Photograph by iheartkitty
Nothing says "complete dinner" like eating a fat stack of pancakes nearly as tall as yourself. Go ahead, Little Bear...drown yourself in fluffy pancake happiness.
Posted by Robyn Lee, February 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Why is today so exciting? Because it's Super Tuesday? Maybe...but also because it's Pancake Day! Everyone can celebrate this glorious holiday because everyone likes pancakes. It's an unwritten law.
Show your love for pancakes by whipping up a stack of pancakes. Fat, thick, plain, syruped, however you like. If you want some inspiration, check out the fun stop-motion pancake-making video after the jump.
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Posted by Robyn Lee, December 7, 2007 at 6:00 PM
I love a good towering stack of fluffy golden pancakes as much as the next guy, but this two hundred and seven pancake stack sculpture by Elizabeth Demaray may be too much of a good thing. And these aren't your pillowy breakfast pancakes, but pancakes that have been dried in a kiln and encased in epoxy resin. Edible? Not so much. It probably makes a good conversation starter though.
Posted by Robyn Lee, July 24, 2007 at 3:45 PM
Photograph from Benidormone on Flickr
Pannenkoekewhat?
The Pannenkoekenboot, or Pancake Boat, is possibly the only boat in the world featuring an all-you-can-eat pancake buffet. For an hour or more while floating by the sights of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, or Nijmegen you can feast on pancakes and...more pancakes. Don't tell me you wouldn't go for this:
We serve plain, apple and bacon pancakes and also have a buffet covered with ingredients to garnish your pancake with, such as cheese, ham, fruit, jam and chocolate sprinkles. Of course there is syrup and powdered sugar on every table.
Of course—no pancake buffet is complete without syrup and powdered sugar. €13,50 may sound like a lot for pancakes, but while stuffing yourself with as many pancakes as you dare to ingest remember that you're also being ferried along a picturesque river. You could take a pancake-less journey, but why would you do that when you could ride the Pancake Boat? Methinks the choice is obvious.
Posted by Adam Kuban, July 24, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Food blogger Marvin of Burnt Lumpia whips up a breakfast recipe post that somehow manages to connect such disparate elements as ube (a type of yam popular with Filipinos), pancakes, and Prince—as in The Artist. The result is a flapjack with a golden-brown exterior and a heart of royal purple.
Posted by Robyn Lee, July 13, 2007 at 5:29 PM
At first glance I thought Jaden's photo was of some kind of intense fruit salad, but then I found out that underneath the mountain of chopped fruit was a golden German oven pancake, a discovery that suddenly increased the deliciousness of the photo by 500%. You can recreate the pancake in your own kitchen by following the recipe on Jaden's blog, Steamy Kitchen.
Posted by Robyn Lee, June 4, 2007 at 6:30 PM
It was love at first sight when I came across framboise's photo of a mountain of homemade pancakes in the Pancakes and Waffles group on Flickr. If you have a void of loneliness in your soul, fill it with pancakes and you should perk right up. You can also eat them if you're, you know, hungry.
Posted by Ed Levine, May 25, 2007 at 9:06 AM
On our way to Cape Cod for a little family R & R, we stopped for a bite (actually, more than a bite) at 3:15 p.m. at Nick's Diner, a hipster diner in what appears to be Providence, Rhode Island's newly fashionable West Side. My son, Will, ordered the turkey sandwich, my wife, Vicky, ordered the pulled pork and cheddar, and, in the name of responsible food research, I ordered the zucchini and potato soup, the steak sandwich, and a short stack of buttermilk hotcakes with rhubarb compote and whipped cream on the side. My wife grimaced as I ordered the pancakes. "How could you do that?," she asked.
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Posted by Alaina Browne, April 16, 2007 at 5:15 PM
I consider it a good morning if my pancakes resemble pancakes. Members of the Pancake Art group on Flickr take their pancakes to a whole other level, crafted into the shapes of bunnies, ducks, and mice.
Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 27, 2007 at 12:30 PM
From Sunday's NYT Magazine, Amanda Hesser digs David Eyre's oven-baked pancake recipe out from the 1960s:
What keeps cooks faithful to one recipe is often some confluence of ease and surprise. David Eyre’s pancake possesses both. A batter of flour, milk, eggs and nutmeg is blended together, then poured into a hot skillet filled with butter and baked. Anyone confused? I didn’t think so.
The surprise comes, appropriately, at the end, when you open the oven door to find a poofy, toasted, utterly delectable-looking pancake. This soon collapses as you shower it with confectioners’ sugar and lemon juice, slice it up and devour it. It’s sweet and tart, not quite a pancake and not quite a crepe. But lovable all the same.
Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 12, 2007 at 7:40 AM
Mrs Marv is so hardcore that she made sausage, biscuits and gravy for her mom—all of it completely from scratch. Yes, even the sausage! I think you'll agree with me when I say that I think she is a breakfast rock star.
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Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 23, 2007 at 12:43 PM
I think these breakfast food pillows are adorable (if a little pricey) but I don't know if I can wholeheartedly support a brand with a tagline as heretical as "more fun than the real thing". I'm sorry, but no matter how cute the pillow, the equation will always be fake fried egg < real fried egg. It's what you can actually get in your belly that counts!
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Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 20, 2007 at 3:25 PM
Homesick Texan: "I’d never had gingerbread pancakes until I moved to Austin and after one bite, I no longer had a desire for any other flavor. Take all the spicy goodness of a gingerbread cookie and make it rich, cake-like and fluffy, and there you have the joy that is a gingerbread pancake." Lovely writing, and the pancakes really do look delicious!
Posted by Lia Bulaong, February 20, 2007 at 8:26 AM
"Join IHOP to celebrate National Pancake Day (also known as Mardi Gras, or Shrove Tuesday) on Tuesday, February 20, 2007. From 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., we’ll give you one free short stack (three) of our famous buttermilk pancakes. All we ask is that you consider making a donation to support local children’s hospitals through Children’s Miracle Network, or other local charities." They raised $340,000 in 2006 and are hoping to hit half a million today, so if you're inclined to eat pancakes and help out, you know what to do!
Posted by Lia Bulaong, January 31, 2007 at 11:30 AM
Buttermilk Pancakes from Marion Cunningham's The Breakfast Book, as adapted by Shuna Fish Lydon. If you've never made pancakes from scratch before, this is the time to learn—this recipe is simple and Shuna's tutorial is both easy to follow and informative: "I like to heat up my oven and keep a plate inside so that I can place the ready pancakes in there to wait, thereby being able to sit down with the person I'm eating pancakes with."
Posted by Nathalie Jordi, January 18, 2007 at 1:55 PM
Jimmy Dean sausage inside a sweet pancake shroud: get 'em, fourteen at a time, with blueberries, chocolate chips, or plain. They're calling these "fun on a stick," but I think "corn dog in drag" is more appropriate.
Perhaps we are better off in outer space.
