Pancake Tuesday recipe III. and IV.

  

Another pancakey dinner! :) But be warned, it's really heavy and filling!

 Meaty-mushroomy pancake bake

Ingredients:

2-3 tbsp oil or a generous knob of butter

1 packet (250g) mushrooms, chopped

salt, pepper

100-120g smoked meat, chopped

large bunch pasrsley, chopped

2 hard boiled eggs, chopped

1 cup grated Cheddar

1 egg yolk

3-4 tbsp soured cream

1 pinch nutmeg

10-12 pancakes

 Sautee the mushrooms in a large frying pan, adding salt and pepper.

 Add the smoked meat, eggs, parsley and stir.
 Spread the filling on a pancake and top with another pancake.

 Roll up the double pancake.
 Cut it in 3 pieces and stand them up in a greased ovenproof dish.

 Mix the yolks, nutmeg, soured cream and half cup of cheese and spread on top. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Cook in a pre-heated (200 C) oven for about 20-30 mins or until top is golden.

 I whisked the remaining egg yolk and mixed it with some salt and cheese, poured over and put back in the oven for another 15 mins. Just didn't want to waste the white ;)

And for the desert:

Triple layered cottage cheese pancake bake

I love pancakes filled with cottage cheese! As my Grandma used to make it - a tub of cottage cheese, 1 egg yolk, sugar (I added 3 tsp) some raisins and lemon zest. (These are best cooked in the oven afterwards, but if you eat them raw do so straight away and use only the freshest eggs!)

 As my friend's Mum used to make it - 1 tub cottage cheese, 3 tsp sugar, 3 tsp soured cream, raisins, lemon zest.

Or as I make them when I'm in a hurry (you know, kids screaming for more pancakes, you are tossing them with one hand and spreading the filling with the other while making more cottage cheese filling with the third...) - cottage cheese, sugar, lemon zest. 

I thought, it would be nice to eat them all together :) So. I made 9 pancakes. Filled three with first variety, 3 with second, 2 with third (ran out of cottage cheese :O ) and a final one with Nutella :D

Then mixed 1-2 egg yolks, 100 ml cream, 3 tbsp warmed honey and a generous tsp cinnamon.

 Then I put the pancakes in layers in a loaf tin. Poured some sauce over each layer and tossed a handful of walnuts on toop.

 

Put it in the oven at 200 C for 15 mins and slice & serve. It's even better when cooled!

Pancake Tuesday recipe I.

I just realized Pancake Tuesday is next week this year!!! So, I dug out a few of my fancy pancake recipes ;) This one is excellent for dinner (we are having it right now with the girls!) or for a light lunch. It's inspired by a friend's recipe I learnt at a pancake party :D

Ingredients:

1 tbsp butter

1 onion, finely diced

125g mushrooms, chopped

salt, pepper

dried parsley, appr. 1 tbsp

3 tbsp soured cream

50ml cream

1 tbsp flour

5 thick pancakes

for the sauce:

1 egg

3-4 tbsp soured cream

3-4 tbsp cream

salt

grated cheese to sprinkle on top

 Heat the butter in a large frying pan. Add the onion and sautee until softens. Ad the mushrooms, salt, pepper, parsley and cook, stirring continuosly until mushroom is done.

 Sprinkle with ther flour, stir and add the soured cream and cream. Simmer on a low heat, stirring frequently until thickens.

 Mix together the topping ingredients in a bowl with a fork.

 Spread some of the mushroom mixture on each pancake and fold like a burrito.

 Place them into a buttered ovenproof dish.

 Pour over the sauce and sprinkle with the cheese.

Put in a pre-heated (200 C) oven and cook far 20 mins or until sauce has set and top is golden.
Enjoy!

Easy peasy crepes

Another of my daughters' favourite!

Ingredients for appr. 12 crepes:

200 g flour

2 eggs

500 ml milk

pinch salt

50 ml oil

 Beat all the ingredients together until smooth. Leave to stand covered for 30 mins or an hour.

 Brush a frying pan with a little oil, heat it and when it's very hot pour a laddle-ful of the batter in.

 Quickly turn the pan until all is covered with a thin layer of batter. Cook until sets.

 Loosen at the edges with a wooden spatula and toss it! Or you can flip it with the spatula ;)

 Slide onto a plate and spread with your favourite filling. We LOVE Nutella!

But you can use cinnamon+sugar, cocoa powder, jam or even savoury fillings (as there is no sugar in the batter).

 And enjoy! But be quick, they disappear very fast...

They are easy as you have oil already in your batter, after the initial drops of oil into the pan you don't have to grease it again!
I got this recipe from my Mum. She had her birthday recently and one of my friends made a gorgeous birthday card for her (and one for my Dad too).

They are lovely, aren't they? Mimi's Card Designs!