Okay, so when I was reading the book Cooking For Geeks, one of the author's ideas was to take food that was prepared in one way and try cooking it differently, an idea that I immediately fell in love with. One of his suggestions was to try cookie batter in a waffle iron, but instead, I decided to play around with cupcake batter. I know cupcake batter. I actually did try cupcake batter in waffle form and it was very good (I didn't get to take pictures before it was eaten, which is why I haven't written about it here on the blog). So, with the remaining batter, I decided to make pancakes.
I haven't exactly talked about what the batter is, have I? Well, it's an adaptation of the basic vanilla cupcake batter that I also used in Ramekin Cakes, but I also added chocolate chips and shredded coconut. I sorta love what shredded coconut does to the texture of the batter when cooked.
So I decided to make pancakes. Except . . . I don't have much experience making pancakes. Usually, when I eat pancakes, someone else has made them - either I'm at a restaurant, at a friend's house or I'm at home, and my dad is cooking (my dad makes some of the best food I've ever eaten). What this means is I had only a vague idea of what to do. I ended up heating the pan up to high and then putting the batter in too thick, which caused the outside to burn before the inside was anywhere near done. An absolute failure. (To be honest, I wasn't going to post this, but this is a misadventure and I can't edit out my mistakes just so I don't look silly.) I still ended up eating some of it because I was hungry and it was vegan, so I didn't have to worry about raw eggs and salmonella. Not surprisingly, it wasn't very good. My advice is if you don't know how to make pancakes and are hungry, make something else and learn how to make pancakes when you're not hungry, with someone guiding you through the steps.
This was not actually cooked for breakfast. This was one of those in the middle of the afternoon snacks, when you're bored and feeling weirdly tired and have nothing to do. The two o' clock to four o' clock period. It's like you're brain dead. I was feeling lazy and maybe a little bit tired, so I decided, hey! Let's make some eggs! There wasn't a clean pan, so I ended up making them in a little pot instead. When I finished cooking them, I then ate them with a little bit of slightly toasted bread.
This was also not all that good. The eggs had little flavor and the bread was somewhat stale. Also, it didn't help that I'm not a big fan of scrambled eggs. I like mine over easy. I have wonder why I wanted to make them this way in the first place. Overall, it wasn't a very good idea.
No, it's not that I can't make any breakfast foods. I have made very good scones and muffins before and I can make a killer coconut oatmeal (yum, yum, yum). But I think with both of these dishes, I really just need to work on them some more before I make them for myself and anyone else.
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