Making pancakes, the kind from The Deep South in the states, which are much different than traditional Norwegian pancakes or patches. Norwegian pancakes are similar to French crepes but a bit thicker. Norwegian patches, are similar pancakes, but with many more eggs, which give them a thick eggy delicious consistency. Both are served with fresh soured cream and syltetøy, jams. We like blackberry, strawberry, and homemade ones from the garden best! Sugar is usually also sprinkled over the sour cream. Other times, the Norwegian pancakes are left plain, and wrapped around a hotdog, then topped with maybe relish or a crunch type of fried onions. Yum!
This morning, though, well, Oct 17th afternoon in the photos actually, I was making the Southern Pancakes. We like them too. T is better at making the French or various Norwegian pancakes. I´m better at making the American ones! The kids like both and so do I, but I often ask T to make me some of his Norwegian patches:). He´s a super cook, and great also with grilling out, bbq, and baking cakes and homemade breads. I make the pies, fried chicken, many traditional Norwegian dishes such as waffles, lapskaus, Hunter´s Stew, blåbærgrøt, etc and American, SouthWestern, cajun etc foods. I really like the rice porridge, and sour cream porridge here, and like when he makes them as I still can not. It takes constant stirring, just right, or it burns, or just does not get the correct consistency.
Anyway, these Southern pancakes are very easy.
This is one of my numerous, and I do mean numerous as I´ve got hundreds, of cookbooks. I love to cook, and taught myself. We got many of the books in the US at Half Price Bookstores, library sales, etc. Some cost a dollar! Well worth it, as many recipes are obscure, regional, or just from areas I´ve lived and liked, such as New Mexico, Arizona, The East Coast and West Coast, Southern Coastal areas such as a gumbo cookbook from New Orleans, etc.
I´ll write the recipe out in a second. But this cookbook is great! The Heritage of Southern Cooking.
Here´s the oops sideways views of the cookbook´s pancakes with the blueberry sauce the recipe also includes, which I didn´t take photos of, and the recipe for both the pancakes and blueberry sauce.
The pancakes were for hours later, for a pancake supper. I made the dry ingredients in one bowl, the wet in another. Added them right before making. Cooked the pancakes on the hot griddle pan, putting them in a baking pan. As they were for a pancake supper hours later, I put them in the fridge til later. Right before supper, I then took them out, warmed them in the oven. Less stress, as I made them during time when the kids were still in barnehage and school. I do the same with bacon! Usually the night before, baking all of it in the oven slowly, then warming the morning of in the oven, along with the pancakes, and scrambled eggs I also made the night before, once the kids are in bed!:)
Secrets of June Cleaver,). BTW, anyone else love this scene in the movie "Pleasantville" ?! That is why I´d gotten a hankering for those fluffy American pancakes, bacon etc for supper!,)
This is the kitchen I prefer to cook in, it´s cozy and ironically easier to keep organized as there is so little space I must keep everything organized! In all the places I´ve lived, I´ve found the larger the kitchen and the larger the counter, it still ends up you think you need more space, more countertop!,)
I added a shelf instead of a cupboard, by the double sink, to put up large baskets to hold misc stuff like metal pie pans, baking pans etc. I have other things hanging from the supports, by closet hanger organizers. Old colanders, wooden spoons, wooden drinking cups etc. Some of my smaller wooden cutting boards hang from wall hooks along the short wall. Baskets on the countertops, and old butter and cream crocs hold my Chef knives. I love old French kitchens, and got ideas from seeing those, and Julia Child´s and other European and California chef´s kitchens!
Can you see that HUGE chef knife in the larger crock? That one I got the other week at the charity shop! I´d been looking for one to finish my German set, but they´re so expensive, no one had one that large. I got the others when living in Europe. I´d found them in an old attic! Love them, and have had them for several decades now. This large one, probably 3000NOK if you could find it here, cost me 10NOK in the charity shop---they were t h r i l l e d to be rid of it!,) They were concerned over its being so large, heavy, dangerous looking. I use to cut whole raw poultry or such in half. I just need a better fish filleting knife now:)
I also got a fantastic, old antique sharpening stone, still in its original box, a bread knife and slotted bread board, a thick heavy S/S Finnish set of pots with lids. FAB!
Some of my most used cookbooks sit in the window in baskets and metal organizing grids (was actually for the shower caddy but turned on its side, works a treat as being a book organizer)! The window, when you can see it, is huge, with lots and lots of tiny panes of individual clear glass under a similar grid of pale colored stained glass and leaded window panes, typical of many older traditional homes here. The window swings open on its side, and is held open with a tiny long metal hook and clasp hoop. In the foreground are various bits and pieces from various places I´ve lived : Dalas, wood drinking cups with leather strings, Spirit Rabbit, The Moose,)
About half the time, all this is covered up by the Battenburg Lace linen curtains which when down, come to slightly above the white tiles.
More of my most read, or seasonal cooking magazines from various places we got in the Half Price Bookstore. The Mississippi Magazines have a tremendously delicious version of a Southern recipe for Boston Creme Pie, their states version of a South Carolina seafood gumbo, rabbit suggestions, and a wonderful shrimp, crawfish and wild raspberry stew! Lots of regional recipes and cookbooks behind that. The napkins say Bon Appetite Ya´ll, which my eldest daughter got me:). And the bits and pieces of paper, are "receipts" (what recipes used to be called) from the other 3, as they love to cook too! For halloween this year, I got them a new cooking apron and wooden stuff, like rolling pins and wooden egg beaters! Last year, one of their Secret Santas sent a cookbook:) Must photo that too!
ÅH Sånn! Cookie Monster! Top Chef in our kitchen, oversees cookies, steamed veggies, lasagnas, and midnight snacks!,)
Cookie Monster is sitting on an old-fashioned wood Romme container. Romme is Norwegian for sour cream. You buy the container of sour cream as usual, then to make it look like what it did in olden days, you put the store-bought container inside the wooden one!
Some of my Swedish cutting boards hanging along the wall. The dark painted one is Swedish rosemaling, which they do here in Norway also.
More huge baskets, deep tall ones, four in total, above the fridge, to hold misc stuff, instead of in the cupboards, so I can actually find it. One holds nothing but birthday stuff: candles, letters, cups, balloons, mostly.
The large nail usually holds all the aprons which hang down, but they´re in the wash today being cleaned.
The plate is unfired New Mexican clay, painted with a matte design of traditional pigments handmade by the artist I bought it from in New Mexico. Gorgeous! Some of the kids kitchen stuff underneath that. The oven cupboard holds large items, such as the Belgian wafflemaker, Norwegian heart waffle maker, etc. More cookbooks, and tiny delicate waffles made into ice cream cones.
The brown ceramic set of cups and plates, is a traditional Norwegian style, which I like:). They´re coffee cups and cake plates, but I also use them for just meals, as I like them.
The wooden twirling spice rack I got in Denver at a Goodwill, painted it in Southwestern weathered look, and went to The Container Store, spending about 40 bucks to get the spice bottles! The wooden thing cost a buck! Brand new, the whole thing would have cost a 100 bucks, at the time, that I saw in new shops. I like that I hunted and gathered for it, painted it myself, and got all the bottles at my fave organising store.).
And men think women do not like to hunt!,)
Postcard in the basket is from an artist in New Orleans, advert for their at the time latest art show:). I kept it as a reminder of that day:)
Pot and lid in the front, one of the pots from Finland.
Looks messy, kinda is, but generally is tidier. Baskets hold spices. Upside down teddy bear cake, part of the kids kitchen stuff under that too. Basket of cookbooks. Chairs, and a fold out table hanging from the wall, traditional and typical of small kitchens here, I´m using as a wall unit and storage. Chairs hold the baskets, with storage underneath, kinda like a large open cupboard. The white louvered looking thing, is a bathroom cabinet, I´ve put on the floor. It has shelves inside which hold all my rice, dried beans, and such, canned goods, misc such as extra condiments.
New Mexico hewn tree and sinew ladder, holds towels.
Old canvas Norwegian sea bag holds diaper stuff (diapers, Burt´s Bees powders and creams, pacis, etc). Clear glass scale in front of that, the kids like to use. Other chair underspace holds a clean garbage can and bag, and a plastic lid (not shown but keeps the floor dry from wet garbage), so the kids can help with the recycling and composting!
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