COMFORT CERTANTIES and Blueberry Pancakes

Everyone has his little comfort certainty, that tiny thing that you’re sure you make better that anyone else –or at least in a decent way- that goes reinforcing your selconfidence when you need it.

You might draw beautifully, you might be able to speak while burping, you might moonwalk for kilometers.

As for myself..well, nothing really comes to my mind now but, at least, I thought I was able to cut an onion. Not in any artistic way, like, I cannot carve a caravell out of a watermelon, but still, I though I could at least cube it properly.

Turns out I cannot.

Well, I couldn’t, you all please be jelous.

After denying me even the tiniest certanty of knowing how to cube an onion –seriously, was I asking so much?- at least Gordon taught me how to do that. No, of course I’m not gonna share it with you, keep wandering in oblivion.

Nevertheless, I’m gonna share with you his recipe for a wowbreakfast.

INGREDIENTS:

125g flour

1 tsp baking powder

Pinch of salt

1 TBS sugar

2 eggs, separated

100ml milk

125g ricotta

100g blueberries

DIRECTIONS:

Sift the flour, baking powder,
salt and sugar in a
       bowl and mix together. Add the egg
       yolks and, gradually, the milk, whisking slowly.  When everything is well combined, fold in the ricotta and the blueberries.

In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites  until
stiff. 

      You should be able to turn the bowl watchin
       your egg whites miraculously defying gravity.
      At this point, add them carefully to the batter.

Heat a non-stick frying pan and melt in it a knob
      of butter with some oil. Cook the pancakes
      using 2 TBS 

      of batter each, 2 minutes per side until golden.

Gordon suggests to serve them with Greek yoghurt 

      and honey, which must be divine. We had them with a sprinkling of brown sugar. Also divine.

GO PANCAKES

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

How did your celebrations go? Has a proper stuck-up wannabe, I feel like saying that of course I hate all the expectations about it, I love glitter but I hate clubbing, I love the 80’s but I hate stinking like smoke.

BUT, what  I do love about New Year’s Eve, is that it’s THE excuse to have lovely –and too abundant- dinners with your friends. After herb-cheese filled mushrooms, pasta, a mozzarella and zucchini quiche and chocolate mini cakes with a melting heart, we are now left with some chili con carne and tandoori chicken.

GO BREAKFAST!

Or, as an alternative for the delicate stomached, go pancakes.

INGREDIENTS (Makes about 7):

1 cup flour

1 cup milk

1 egg

50 grs butter

2 tsp baking powder

Pinch of salt

TBS sugar (Optional)

Cinnamon (Optional)

DIRECTIONS: 

In a bowl mix together all the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt and the optional sugar a nd cinnamon) and the melted butter. Stir and stir.

In a second bowl, whisk together milk and the egg, then add –always stirring- to the dry ingredients.

Grab the pan in which you have previously melted the butter. And put more butter. Yess. When melted, pour a ladle of batter and let cook for a few minuts. Turn on the other side when you see borders are ready.

Start your 2013 with a proper breakfast.

Because sometimes, easy, fast and satisfying is the only combination.

Especially on the 1^st of january.