August 20, 2010

blueberry pancakes came to my table!


(taken with sx-70 on px color film)

hi.
today's first word, tgi friday!!
i have been looking forward today since a peaceful monday went away.
on monday, i was kind of happy that another week had come peacefully.
but once monday was completed, i started to feel enormous fatigue.
i think i'm the happiest now this week.

btw, do you remember i made a list for blueberries at the end of the last week?
pancake breakfast was the one of things on the list, and i had that without missing.
last saturday was the pancake morning.

i seldom make pancakes.
only barely does the occasion occur with something pretty and intriguing.
this time, blueberry induced me to have a chance of pancake breakfast.
i was so thrilled as if i had been a kindergartener who is excited with a coming field trip next day that i was waiting for the morning to come with a package of new polaroid film which i got some days ago.
i've shot 2 or 3 in advance to be able to adopt a feedback to the "it" time.
c'mmon, blueberry pancakes!!



i was pretty much contented with how my blueberry pancakes looked, so i was quite busy to do two important things at a time, eating pancakes and taking pictures of them.
eat them, shoot them, eat them and shoot them....
there were a 35 mm camera (a slide film loaded), a twin lens camera (a b&w film loaded) and sx-70 on the floor around my chair.
never ending breakfast.
no one wouldn't oppose the diagnosis that i went crazy in that morning.
so don't i.

so, what do you think of a polaroid's new product?
here are those.
it's too much bluish, having a crucial unevenness, which is supposed to be eased gradually as time goes by, they say, but actually became more crucial 5 days later.
nevertheless, i love them.
especially with pretty blueberries shot on.
love is blind.



speaking about the recipe, i adopted the one from one of the most reliable cooks'.
i made mine with a half of the ingredients to serve 6 medium size pancakes for 2 people, used whole wheat pastry flour instead of white whole wheat flour and skipped the blueberry maple syrup but fold raw blueberries directly in the batter and sprinkled additional before serving.
also i cut the 1/3 cup sugar down to 2 tsp.
as i always love my baking goods to be slightly sweet, that's my way to make them with minimum amount of sugar and then put a bottle of honey or maple syrup on the side to taste.

please don't giggle at me about having used buttermilk for the first time.
i had known the name and how it's made, but i was just awkward to use that because i'd been a kinda vegan and eliminated all the dairy products for quite some time in the past years.
even after i decided to allow as minimum amount of them as possible to enter my diet, i prefer to use soy milk for my milk.
but this time, i obediently wanted to follow the original recipe which calls for buttermilk.
then i really liked the flavor and the smell of the pancakes with buttermilk.

tomorrow, it's saturday and there's still rest of buttermilk in the fridge.
i'm not sure if it's still consumable, but i'm hoping to have french toasts soaked in the buttermilk and eggs mixture for tomorrow breakfast.
and i'm thinking if there's another necessity of preparing a pack of polaroid film. :)

have a pretty weekend, girls and boys!

2 comments:

akanée said...

GJ! Lovely poaroids!

I don't know and never used buttermilk... wonder if I can get some at "kuoka" or shops on the Net. Sounds really yummy:)) Enjoy it!

Have a peaceful and lovely Saturday:)

tomily said...

oh, you like the new film?
i think "GJ" is the word more than expected for these pictures. :P

yeah, i don't think we have buttermilk in japan.
it was the remain of the process of churning butter.
so, let's think about making tofu.
you'll get tofu and okara from the process.
though tofu is the main actor, okara still gives the nice roll in the nutritious aspect, and that's the same theory of butter and buttermilk.
it has a bit sour and salty taste, and the consistency is a bit thicker than usual milk.
i appreciate that its calorie load is as low as soy milk.
i hope you'll have a chance to get that somewhere traditional churning is sill kept.

Thanks, i had rather pretty saturday and sunday! :))
how about yours?