Weekends are the best time for breakfast...

I love breakfast foods.

Actually, scratch that. I love food. Pretty much all food in fact. But breakfast foods hold a special place in my heart.

Last winter when I was snowboarding every possible second (and with a small hill that's rarely open, that wasn't as much as I'd like) I got into the habit of making Sunday breakfast. Now I don't mean just bacon and eggs (mind you don't bash bacon and eggs, that's a classic) or oatmeal (refer to previous bracket), but I started experimenting. So I'm here to share with you this Sunday one of my Sunday Breakfasts (which I will happily continue as consistently as I can!)... Dutch Baby Pancake.

Now you've probably seen / had / made this before and might call it something different (Bismarck, German pancake, Dutch puff.... to name a few) but the recipe I followed called this a Dutch Baby Pancake so that's what she's called!

Dutch Baby, baby!!

Dutch Baby Pancake
Makes one 10inch skillet which serves two or three (...but I'm pretty sure I could eat the whole thing myself!!)
(Adapted from Camille Styles)

Ingredients

• 3 Large Eggs
• 2/3 cup Almond Milk (you could use regular cow milk... or probably any milk you like, but I like the taste of almond milk!)
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• 2 tablespoons Sugar
• 1/2 cup Flour
• 1 tablespoon Butter

Instructions

1. Place skillet onto middle rack of oven and turn on to 450 degrees
2. While oven and skillet are preheating, using a wire whisk, whip eggs until frothy and lighter in colour (about 2 minutes)
3. Add milk, vanilla and sugar and whisk until blended
4. Add flour, whisk until smooth and let rest while oven finished preheating
5. When oven is to temperature, carefully remove hot skillet and add butter, swirling to melt and coat pan completely
6. Carefully pour batter into melted butter (remember, pan is hot!!) and quickly pop back into the oven
7. Set timer for 15 minutes and DON'T open that oven door!!! It needs the eat to stay in the oven to puff up! (I like my pancake a little crispier on top so I usually rotate the pan and give it another two minutes, but its ready when its golden and the center is set!)
8. When done, remove skillet from oven, loosen pancake edges with a rubber spatula and carefully slide onto a plate.
9. Cut into wedges and serve immediately with your choice of topping (I prefer a fruit compote or jam!)

If you try this recipe or have your own version, please comment! I'd love to hear about your breakfasts!!

Try this!

Enjoy responsibly!

My spindly little herb garden tonight

Tomatoes on my lunch break

Let's play a little game of what's in Shelly's purse.

 

When I attended a friend's bridal shower in October (The same friend I made the pies for!) one of the games we played made the ladies in attendance empty their purses and for various items you received different points (more common items less points, unique items more points) here's a link to a similar game (sadly I couldn't find the one we used)... but you get the idea. (ours had a handgun on it... not sure about that, concealed weapons aren't really that popular around here)

So, I digress... What's in Shelly's purse?

Here's a hint, I've blogged about it recently.

It's going to fit right in on my window sill.

um.... it fits in my purse (which isn't a purse, it's barely bigger than some womens' wallets, really... but it works).

Haven't guessed it?

SEED PACKETS!!!

I'm so beyond stoked. I bought some Kale, Lavender and Rosemary at good old Wal-Mart (hey, we only have one greenhouse in town and it's closed between October and May, don't judge!) and today my heirloom tomato seeds were delivered!

Don't ask me how (I really can't remember) I found TomatoFest a couple weeks ago, but I couldn't help myself when I saw all the pretty heirloom varieties. The colours, shapes.... Lets just say it was pretty much porn for the girl lusting for potting soil under her nails. 

I ordered a fun little selection of tomatoes to get me going this summer and as a bonus the generous folks threw in a free packet!



I hope in a few weeks I can show you the tomato seedlings but for now I'll continue playing with my other three packets (still not enough daylight around here so my plants are a little spindly).

The tomatoes I ordered were: Spoon, Gold Nugget, Beefsteak, Blue Berries and Aunty Ginny's Purple. They threw in a packet of Wickline Cherry for free!

**for the record, I will not be planting anytime soon... apologies for the grainy picture, I was busy shivering**


technically speaking, that's freaking cold.



Wish Wednesday ~ Wednesday Februsry 18th, 2015.

I sort of feel like this #wishwednesday thing is seriously a thing of my past.

It used to be full of pretty things and whims that I just no longer care about. These days all I wish for is my farm.

So while my #wishwednesday tag may fall into disuse (I might still use it though! It's just not the same), I'll keep wishing. Maybe not just on Wednesdays.