All three of the girls are in school this year...that's right Monkey Face is a big ole Kindergartner this year. So nothing for it but to make this a great day.
A few weeks ago, I saw a cool pancake trick on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (yes, I am a cooking show dork...moving on) and thought, "eh, I could totally do that". So I set about figuring it out.
And figure it out...I DID!
We made a bunch of them...and quite a few of them flopped. Those flops provided sustenance until such time as we could figure it out...which, of course, gave us MORE time to figure it out...but by the time the technique was perfected, we weren't really all that hungry. I think I started making them at around 8:15 and we started cleaning the kitchen around 10...nearly two hours WELL spent.
After I'd really figured out what to do, Bean wanted to give it a go. I figured that I'd offer ya'll a tutorial in case you ever want to make them.
First of all...get yourself a big flat pan, griddle or some such...We're using my electric skillet. Take your favorite pancake recipe and thin it out. Then you need TWO dispensers, one for writing and one for flooding. I started trying to write with the squeeze bottle that Beanie uses to "flood", but because I'd cut the top off to make the hole bigger, it was too big to be precise enough to write. No matter, we used the squeeze bottle to flood and we ended up having the best luck with a standard baby medicine dropper for writing.
Here is Beanie after she has drawn her picture, in this case a tree. You want to let it cook for a good long while, the darker it is the better it will show...
Then once the outline is PRETTY dark you flood it...wait 15 seconds and then flip it. The part of the pancake that is flooded will be MUCH lighter...if you wait, it will catch up to the outline part in darkness, and where's the fun in that? In this clip, Beanie wrote "Go Mom"...remember, if you are writing, you have to write BACKWARDS because you flip it...and if you don't WRITE it backwards your final pancake will be backwards...we lost SEVERAL that way...
(Oh, the weird part in the middle where I turn the camera is because I thought I was flipping it, and she decided mid-stream that she could do it...eh...with a real film crew, you'd get some sort of editing...that is not the case here...)
Here is an example of one that was left too long after the "flooding"...
Once you get the hang of it, the only limit is your own drawing ability...I don't draw much...but I am working on my penmanship...(Still too long on the pan)
It was a great first day activity...we just wish Grandma had been here to share it...
See ya around...
1 comment:
Now those ARE cool! She looks quite comfortable cooking! She even sounds like a teacher. Homeschool rocks! LOL!
And that last picture is too precious....
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