Unvirtuous comfort food

[pegkerr]

Tonight, I wasn't in the mood to be virtuous in the kitchen. Maybe it's the brutally cold weather (-20 degrees Farenheit, and we won't even talk about the windchill). Rob was out tonight; for me and the kids I whipped up a dutch oven pancake, about the easiest thing in my repertoire. Eggs, flour, milk--and I also threw in about a half cup of chocolate chips. Put it in a cast iron skillet and place it the oven for ten minutes. I cooked a banana in Kahlua and butter and put that on top.

The girls gobbled it up with nary a complaint. Wonder of wonder: for once, Fiona eats all her dinner. Fiona doled out the kids vitamin pills to herself and Delia ("So we'll at least have something nutrious tonight.")

Fiona asked for dessert after her portion of the pancake was finished.

I fixed her with my best steely-eyed bitch mom look. "You've had dessert."

"Oh. I thought that was dinner."

I sighed. "It was both."

Boy, it tasted good.

Comments

[kayre]

Eggs, milk and bananas aren't nutritious?

[redbird]

When dinner is chocolate, dessert should be fruit.

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[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

Or vegetables! "What's for dessert?" "Carrots."

Do you have a recipe for that? Because it sounds incredibly good, and even more last-minute-accessible than my usual standby (bread pudding), since you don't even have to have bread.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

From this month's issue of Cooking Light:

1/4 cup reduced fat milk
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
2 TB sugar
2 large eggs
2 TB butter, divided
1/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips
3 large firm bananas, halved lengthwise
1/2 cup Kahlua

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place 9-inch cast iron skillet in oven for 15 minutes. Combine first five ingredients, stirring with whisk until smooth. Melt 1 TB butter until browned, swirling to coat . Ad batter, sprinkle with chocolate chips. Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes until puffed and browned.

Cut banana halves in half crosswise. Melt 1 TB butter in skillet over medium high heat. Add bananas, cooking 2 minutes on each side until browned. Add Kahlua, simmer one minute. Serve pancake with bananas and liqueur on top.

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Yum.

You could increase the protein content by using the Cornell Triple Rich Flour Formula.

As long as they don't see you, of course.

K.

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[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

Oh, boy, I can tell what's coming home from the grocery store with me this evening... bananas. This sounds like just the thing to start a morning-with-icestorm.

Dinner menus

[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

About every other week we have one night when we have breakfast food for dinner, the sort of stuff you never have time to make in the morning, even on the weekends, since the adults want to sleep in on Saturday and we're all scrambling to get ready for church on Sunday.

I never get a complaint when I make raisin bread French toast for dinner, usually with a side of either bacon or sausage, often also with some scrambled eggs (left over from battering the bread) and sometimes fruit, too. (Options include raspberries and blueberries in season, bananas, apples sauteed in cinnamon and brown sugar, canned peaches, etc.)

When the kids want very kid-type food--chicken nuggets, for instance--and we don't, I'll make the two of us a nice omelette with toast, fruit and sour cream on the side. My favorite is a lox omelette with plenty of sauteed onions, but I also like to do onion/mushroom/cheese, spinach/feta or just whatever is lying around the kitchen (Greek olives, roasted red peppers, marinated artichoked hearts, etc.). It's a great pick-up meal because it's usually cobbled together from ingredients we already have on hand. (I try to make sure we always have at least three or four eggs.)

Rob doesn't know what he missed!