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OK Muggles, I accept that's what you THINK pancakes are, and very nice they sound too. And I promise to try your recipe as soon as I can get some cornmeal.
Now you've gotta promise to try a REAL pancake recipe.
REAL Pancakes
4 ozs flour
pinch salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
approx 1/2 pint milk
Sift flour and salt. Add eggs and milk, beat well, gently stir in baking powder. Make the mix pretty thin, like runny cream. Pour into jug.
Heat a heavy frying pan and melt some butter in it. Pour in enough mixture that will coat the whole bottom thinly, when you tilt it all round. Flip over when cooked and cook the other side.
Sprinkle with sugar, lemon juice and a knob of butter. Roll up and devour
(I'll even let you have them with maple syrup, but you've gotta try the lemon juice and sugar first.) Watch for indigestion 
Cast Iron or non-stick frying pan. How many pancakes does it make.
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Just good old fashioned American pancakes:
1 3/4 cup unsifted all purpose flour
1/4 cup fine cornmeal
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3 tbls sugar
3 tbls butter (melted)
1 tbls canola oil
2 large eggs (or egg beaters)
1/2 tsp vanilla
11/3 cup buttermilk
Mix all dry ingredients together.
Mix melted butter, oil, eggs, and vanilla together.
Blend in buttermilk with the "wet" ingredients.
Mix dry and wet ingredients together.
Coat griddle with a little olive oil and cook pancakes until done.
Serve with pure maple syrup, if available.
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Tonight is Pizza night. We are going to try a new Pizza restaurant named Luigi's.
We just finished the pizza and it was very good. Looks like we have a new place to get out pizza as it is only 7 minutes away. The other place, Napoli's, took about 18 minutes to get there, but it was also very good.
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Mum made us dinner tonight! I just picked it up after work!
It was delicious too - Bragioli.
These are beef rolls filled with minced meat, hard boiled eggs, bacon, parsley herbs, and cheese. The meat is rolled and fastened with a couple of toothpicks, put in a dish with potatoes and gravy and cooked in the oven.
Lucky you!!!! You better treat your Mum nice.
What type of wine would you have with a meal like that.
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Tonight is Pizza night. We are going to try a new Pizza restaurant named Luigi's.
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Woooo .....that was a lucky save, just remember you're pretty out-numbered here
What!!!! You think that I am one pickle shy of a barrel.
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Since when was boiling some water, mixing up this white powdery stuff with cold water and adding it to the boiling water, cooking??????
LOL, some women can't boil water.
But, I am sure that all on this forum can.
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Darn Muggle, if I'd known earlier I could have sent you some Old-fashioned biscuit gravy mix to go with those grits
hehehe, no thanks. Not if you made the gravy. Can't teach a woman from down under to cook to save my life.
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I just finished a wonderful dinner, but an odd combination. I had Bison steak and cheese grits as a side dish. I used some butter and a wee bit of Maple Syrup in the grits. Gol darn they were good. My wife had scrambled eggs. she doesn't eat beef of any type and doesn't care for grits (actually she will not try them).
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Well the biscuits came out fine, I added some chopped onion, cheese, bacon and herbs, but the gravy ........is it really supposed to resemble white tasteless glue? I fed the rest to my chickens and even they just took a quick peck, squawked and went off to wipe their beaks. I think I'll stick to home-made gravy
LOL, can't teach a woman anything.
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As a last resort, is "Bisquick" carried in your stores. It is easy to make biscuits with it.
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Welcome aboard. Stick around and you will get some great recommendations for readin.......and....you will enjoy them.
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This is the sequence of the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde, and I recommend that they be read in sequence:
The Eyre Affair
Lost In A Good Book
The Well Of Lost Plots
Something Rotten
First Among Sequels
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Me too, I have to get hold of the last one!
Ooooh, the last one "First among Sequels" was a good one.
The first 30 or so pages was kinda slow but then the action picked up and I could not put the book down.
Run, not walk, to your nearest book store.
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I got a copy of I Am Legend today from the library and started reading it tonight. I am only 50 pages nto the book but am enjoying it very much.
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Crab cakes and baked sweet potato.
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Good review.
It was due to this book By Fforde that I read the Jane Eyre book by Charlotte Bronte.
Jasper Fforde is becoming one of the authors that I read everything in the Thursday Next Series.
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Well that looks basically the same recipe. I'm sure you can get buttermilk in NZ but it is not something that we generally use.
Biscuits and gravy here we come
Though it's a bit hot at the moment, it's mainly salad weather.Go For It!!
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Biscuits
2 cups sifted flour
2 tsp. baking powder
4 tablespoons butter or shortening
1/2 tsp. salt
about 3/4 cup milk
actually, Buttermilk biscuits are much better but they use Crisco shortening and it isn't very good for you.
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
5 tablespoons chilled vegetable shortening
1 cup buttermilk
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My favorites are :
Grey's Anatomy
Desperate Housewives
Ugly Betty
Everything is now a re-run though due to the writer's strike. Y'all in the U.K. probably still have a few episodes before they run out.
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What megan said, you could use it in hashbrown potatoes. Or a thcik slice of toast.......but why not make some biscuits and use it on them.
When I was working for a living I traveled a lot. When in Missouri I would sometimes have Biscuits with Gravy, scrambled eggs, and pork chops for breakfast. Missouri was known for their pork chops and they were usually on the breakfast menu.
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I've always wondered what grits were too (along with Ranch Dressing ). Thought it was some sort of fried thing. Muggle, I've just been given a large packet of Old Fashioned Biscuit Gravy Mix from the US. It's got instructions of how to make it but I have no idea what to make with it. I understand your biscuits are like our scones, but scones with gravy sounds kinda wierd.
Let me think on that one and get back to you.
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Please Muggle explain to me what "grits" are? I have never fathomed that out.
See Maureen's post...........Grits are Heaven
I especially like them baked with cheese (after cooking them the regular way). Even though pontalba doesn't like them with Maple Syrup I think they are great that way, just a wee bit of maple though.
from a dictionaryQuote:
US coarsely ground maize: coarsely ground hulled maize that is boiled and eaten hot with butter, especially at breakfast in the southern United States (takes a singular or plural verb)
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Have just finished 'Wish You Well' and it is just as you say Muggle, it makes you laugh, cry and feel good. A delightful heart-warming story, where family and love are far more important than material wealth. Thank you very much for the recommendation.
Aw shucks, I am very glad that you enjoyed the book and it sounds like you enjoyed it as much as me.
American pancakes & your breakfast?
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Try baking soda. It will make the pancakes lighter and fluffier and better eating.