Monkeytreats

Baked Pancake

Made one of these this morning for breakfast. They’re pretty similar to a Dutch baby, slightly less eggy. The cooking method is simple but clever: you heat the butter in the skillet on the stove prior to putting it in the oven, so the pancake crisps a bit on the bottom. The whole thing’s dead easy, too, you just mix four things, heat the pan, pour in the batter, pop it in the oven.

When I moved five years ago from an apartment with a difficult kitchen to a house with a really useful kitchen, I thought I’d be doing a lot more project cooking, i.e. handmade pasta. In the end I’m doing a certain amount of that sort of thing, mainly barbecued brisket, but really I’m just cooking tons of breakfast stuff.

Which I guess fits me solidly into the stereotype of “dad cooking”…I suppose there are worse things.