Day Three Hundred and Fifty Eight - Eggs Benny Pancake

Dear all,

Today, Kerry cooked up an amazing feast for breakfast; she found a fantastic recipe in the Food and Drink Magazine that the LCBO offer to all its punters.

It is a fabulous read (http://www.lcbo.com/fooddrink/index.shtml) and always has a feast of new recipes to try.

Kerry had spotted the Eggs Benedict-Pancakes so thought she would experiment and I gladly stepped in as sous chef as I had never made pancakes before and thought it would be the perfect blog entry.

We heated the oil in the pan while Kerry mixed up the batter (Flour, eggs, butter, milk and salt). We knew our first attempt would probably not end up making the cut but it was great to have a trial run before we started churning out the stella pancakes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/8366615/How-to-make-a-basic-pancake-batter.html

Enough for 8 pancakes

1 large egg or 1 egg and one yolk

½ pint/280ml milk

4oz/110g plain flour (4 heaped dessertspoons)

1 tbsp melted butter

* By hand: sift the flour into a bowl and make a well in the middle. Break in the egg (and yolk, if using) and add a pinch of salt and a splash of the milk. Whisk the egg, gradually incorporating the flour, to make a smooth cream. Whisk in the rest of the milk and the melted butter.

* With a blender: put all the ingredients in a blender jug with a pinch of salt. Whizz until smooth. It should be no thicker than single cream.

We learned from Take 1 that we had poured the batter in too thick and hadn't evened it out in order that it covered the bottom of the pan.

Take 2 was much more successful and Kerry continued to fire through the remaining pancake batter until we had enough for breakfast. I decided not to attempt the iconic 'pancake flipping' as it was still quiet early.. maybe next time.

And here is the finished dish! A pancake full of shredded pea-meal bacon, poached egg and onions and then smothered in Hollandaise.It was quiet delicious, very light and a perfect post Easter Dinner breakfast!

And in other news:

1. Here are a couple of paintings I worked on today; My nude needs an arm..

But the Picasso Copy is finished..