i used to spend every summer with my dad in portland when i was growing up and we would go to elmer's a lot for breakfast. i always got the same thing...a german pancake (or dutch baby, if you wanna get sassy). i don't remember ever ordering anything else from there. i'm sure i must have at some point, but i don't remember. anyway, it's my favorite breakfast in the whole wide world. every time i go to portland, i always go to elmer's and get one.
i finally got smart and thought of looking online for the recipe and found out how to make them and have been eating them regularly here at home for the past 6 months or so. i keep meaning to do a blog post, but haven't got around to it until now. mostly because our small supply of strawberry plants in the yard are getting ripe and maya and i wanted them for breakfast!
not too many were ripe, just enough for both of us:
the recipe is here, but i don't add the nutmeg (ick) and i heat my oven to 450 degrees and don't change it and cook for 10 minutes and pull it out. other than that, everything is the same as the recipe.
i usually add lemon juice to it after it's done and today we went all out, so here's our toppings:
mmmm....whipped topping. i never use this crap. but it's soooo tasty!!
here it is in the oven right before i pulled it out:
and it's on a normal sized plate, you just can't see it :)
it looks like a huge freaking pancake, but really, it's not. 2 eggs, 1/2 cup milk and 1/2 cup flour. not really much. it's just poofs up so nicely. i gobble the whole thing down no problem. and i'm not that big.
they were delicous. maya and i each had one. she couldn't finish hers, but i had no problem.
on a side note, my plant out in the yard is blooming. it blooms for about a week a year and the blooms last one day each. they're such pretty blossoms. all crinkly and white. i'm always happy when it blooms. i should probably find out what it's called...
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