Monday, May 17, 2010

Dinner!!!

So I had to post again because I just had a really really good dinner and didn't want to forget about it for future reference.
One night a week for dinner I like to have Brenner (which is just my way of saying I'm too lazy to make something nutritious for dinner but too stuck-up to just have a Cup of Noodles, so I have breakfast be my dinner) and tonight was the night. I pulled out my pancake mix and realized I had a pear left over from my grocery shopping last week and some leftover hazelnuts from my nut kick at the beginning of the semester. I decided that it would be interesting to have something different for dinner and this is what I made.

Extremely Delicious Unique Pancakes
(I suggest playing Charles Anzavour while making these, it puts you in the mood)

1/2 cup Bisquick pancake mix
1/4 cup milk
1 egg
1 tsp cinnamon
1 pinch of nutmeg
1/8 cup of chopped toasted hazelnuts
2 TBLS honey
1 ripe pear

So thinly slice and core the pear while heating up a skillet.
Lay the pears flat on the skillet and heat them through until completely soften.
While they are softening mix the milk, egg, spices, nuts and pancake mix together.
Remove the pears from the pan and put in the pancake, making just one medium size pancake.
Once the pancake is done cooking pour half the honey over top and put the other half in the hot skillet and add the pears back in.
Once the honey is bubbling and turned even thicker than normal remove the pears and add them on top of the pancake!
It's quite delicious and surprising how much the pears add flavor to a plain pancake mix.
Of course this made only one pancake for me but if I ever decide to tell people I have a blog, I will make sure they are people who are smart enough to double or even triple a recipe.
So it's almost half-way through my sixth semester at BYU-Idaho and I have recently moved into my sixth apartment! While this semester is different and I previously knew two of my roommates, I broke a promise made to myself my freshmen year. Never stay in the same apartment twice and never move in with people I knew. I thought that this would force me to expand the range of people I knew as well as get to know as many different kinds of people. Four out of the six (including me) are lovers of photography and three of them are amazing at it! So on any given day there are multiple photo shoots going on, many of which are of me looking like a complete idiot. And somehow they always end up on Facebook, so I will now be proactive and post the ones that are not of me being a complete idiot.