Cooking in my Kitchen

I would like a cookbook that tells my story.

What do I want for breakfast?
 Oh I have fresh apples in the fridge this morning?! I think I will make those apple pancakes.
Christy brought over some complete pancake mix. For New Year's 2013 they're  clearing out the kitchen. I got some of their unwanted foods.
 I'm using an egg beater to mix the batter. I rinse the wire whip right away and put it back. No sticky cleanup later.
So pancake mix with a little water is perfect. A little water in this bowl (it says 1 cup water with three- fourths cup mix makes 6 to 8 pancakes) TOO many for one Apple.
 I have honey crisp apples: of course any kind will do but the flavor of the Apple changes the flavor of the pancake. Granny apples make the pancake sour and delicious apples make the pancake SWEET.

I'll cut this apple in half and core it. Oma used to make her apple pancakes circles with a hole in the middle sort of like donuts. Mine are wedges…oops... Chester, get that piece of apple that just fell down.
 I better wash his bowl. It's dirty.

The Apple core and peeling go right into the disposal. And I dip about 20 apple slices into the batter.
Butter melts on a Teflon frypan. It takes about four slices to make one small pancake.
I guess one Apple with a bit of pancake batter fried in a little butter is a good breakfast.
I wait for the apples to cook and the pancakes to Brown. Higher heat and more cooking makes softer apples but shorter cooking time makes crunchier apples.

I clean up any drips immediately since the batter will dry and bake onto the stove and be like concrete. It would take a lot of time and energy to clean later.

I usually put cinnamon sugar on these apple pancakes but applesauce is good, too. Any leftover batter can be used for regular pancakes.

I  rinse bowl, spoon, flipper and pan right away so there will not be any dishes with hard to remove foods on them the next day.

I feed Chester while I enjoy thinking of my grandmother's delicious apple pancakes. I recommend you try them with different kinds of Apple, a thin batter and the topping of your choice. Clean up carefully. And Don't forget to feed the dog.