Pancake Coated Eggplant

I have been ridiculously busy lately, I apologize for my shoddy blog-keeping. My whole personal life in in shambles because my professional life is so busy! Good times!

However, I did make this for my early dinner tonight, and it was bloody delicious, so Enjoy!

Cheezy Pancake Coated Eggplant
Ingredients:
2-4 Slices of eggplant, about 1/2 inch thick
1/2 cup pancake mix (I use bisquick, but whatever you like is fine!)
1 1/2 cup soy milk
1 tbsp nutritional yeast
1 tbsp olive oil
1/2 cup Daiya Mozarella Shreds

Directions:
Pre-fry the eggplant for about 30 seconds on each side, or microwave for a minute or so, until softened.
In a bowl, mix the pancake mix, soy milk, nutritional yeast, olive oil, and daiya. (You may need to add a bit more soy milk to get it goopy enough, depending on your mix! Also, you might need a bit less, so add it a bit at a time and mix until it's a dippable consistancy)
coat the eggplant slices in it, moving to a non-stick frying pan and frying until the batter is cooked on both sides. The coating of the eggplant is similar to how you would coat for french toast, but make sure to get some of the cheese shreds on it!
Repeat with all the eggplant. If there's any batter left, you can cook them up like pancakes! Delicious!
I like mine with Ketchup! :)

Unusual Pancakes for Dinner

Today I had a bizarre encounter, one of those strange encounters that you get when you live in a city.

As one of my many money-making odd jobs, I walk dogs. Dog walking is one of my favorite odd jobs, as it pays well, it's easy, you get some exercise and sunshine, and dogs are great company! Matthew was home, and a woman in the next building asked me to walk her 3 dogs- 2 huskies and a husky/corgi mix, because she had to work long hours for the weekend, and her husband was out of town.

So Matthew and I are walking the dogs (who are generally very well behaved) and a woman with a cat on a leash walked around the corner. The dogs started barking, and the little corgie/husky (who wasn't barking, just curious) slipped her leash and went over to the cat, and sniffed at it. The cat freaked out and started hissing (understandably.)

Now, If I were the woman (and if any of you were the woman) I would have A) Never walked my cat on a leash and B) picked up the cat and walked away. Instead she stood there looking confused as I had to pick up the 40 pound dog and walk across the street to try to get the walking harness back on.

ANYWAY, onto the recipe! A yummy pancake concoction with Daiya cheese and peanut butter! I know this seems weird, but my favorite sandwich as a child was peanut butter and cheese, and this combines these two flavors in a non-animal producty/glutinous manner, and is SUPER delicious!

Peanut Butter and Cheese Pancakes
Ingredients
1 cup GF Bisquick OR 1 cup GF Flour mix (with xanthan) or (if not GF) 1 cup bisquick or flour
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 tsp vanilla
1-1 1/2 cups non-dairy milk (depending on texture)

3 tbsp peanut butter
1/3 cup Daiya Mozzarella Style Shreds
Maple Syrup (for topping)

Directions:
In a bowl, combine bisquick, peanut butter, vanilla, oil, and a bit of the milk. Stir to combine.
While stirring, add in a bit of milk at a time, until it is a nice runny consistancy (like normal pancake batter)
Add in the cheese, and stir to combine.
Heat up a frying pan on medium high, and spray with some non-stick coating.
When nice and hot, drop in some batter, and cook until the uncooked top is bubbling up, and the edges look  crispy/dry.
Flip pancake, and cook a few minutes more until cooked through.
Repeat with rest of batter.
Serve with Maple Syrup, and enjoy the unusual but delicious pancakery!

Nom Nom Nom

The longest pancakes on the planet- Dosas

So my Fiance works with a large group of people from all over the planet, and one of those people, a lovely lady by the name of Yuri, likes to keep up with my cooking, and give me recipes. One such recipe she gave me was for an indian dish named "Dosas", otherwise known as a very elaborate pancake. It takes a long time, but is pretty delicious, especially made with my customized toppings!

Dosas (As altered through Yuri)
Ingredients
2 cups jasmine rice (the recipe called for basmati, but I had jasmine)
1/2 cup Green Split peas (it called for Urad Dal, but I had none)
4 cups water

Directions
You need a large bowl, and a medium bowl. Start at nighttime!
In the large bowl, place the rice and 3 cups of water together. Cover and set somewhere warmish.
In the medium bowl, place the split peas and 1 cup of water, cover and also set somewhere warmish.
Leave them sitting there until the next afternoon.
First, open the rice. It should have absorbed quite a bit of water. Pour off any water that remains, and then dump the rice into a blender.
Begin to blend it, adding in a bit of water at a time to make it a batter like consistency. Place back into the large bowl.
Rinse out the blender, and repeat this process with the split peas, blending into a paste.
Add the split pea paste into the rice, and stir to combine.
Cover, and replace the bowl in a warm place until the next day, allowing it to ferment together.
The next evening, remove the cover, there should be a little film. Stir with a whisk to combine once more.
Spray a non-stick pan with some cooking spray, and fry like you would pancakes.
You can enjoy like that, OR, you can make my topping!

Dosa Topping

Ingredients:

Hummus

1 medium onion, diced

1 carrot, peeled with a peeler into strips.

1 tsp olive oil

Salt, Pepper, and dried chili pepper flakes

Directions

In a frying pan, heat up your olive oil.

Add in the onion dices, and your carrot peels, and sautee for a few minutes.

Spice with salt, pepper, and chili flakes.

As you cook your dosas, spread hummus on them, and then top with the sauteed veggies.

Stack a few like this.

Eat up with happiness!

On Vacation with some Pancakes

It's rather nice being on vacation, and as I write my very first post for this new blog I'm starting, all of my family is down at the beach enjoying themselves.

Well, to be accurate, not all of my family, as I'm vacationing with my mother, the sister closest to my age (Krista), her fiance (Corey), and my fella. You can see Corey and Matthew chatting while soaking up some rays. (See above!)

Being on vacation, especially with a group of non-GFVs can present a bit of a problem.

However, with a big of pre-planning, and the grit to say "Sorry, I'm going to cook for myself!", you can enjoy some delicious foodstuffs, for me today namely GFV pancakes drizzled with melted chocolate and peanut butter.