Pancake Travels

Welcome to Sunday #3 on our trip around the world eating pancakes!  I will say it has been very exciting for us not only to discover new pancakes to eat, but also to learn more about each country during the process.  When researching Albania, I learned that the traditional Albanian breakfast food is rice and paca, which is a soup made from animal innards.  I also discovered that sometimes a soup made of lamb is eaten for breakfast as well.  As I continued my research, I began to wonder if Albania would be the first country that did not have some sort of traditional pancake.  Hmmmm . . . Not to be deterred by the first road block, I continued searching, just to be sure.  It would be awful to skip Albania because on first appearances it might appear they don't have a pancake style food in their cuisine.  As I continued my research, I soon learned that Albanian cuisine is influenced by Turkish, Greek, and Italian cuisine.  Since I know that Italy has...

Yes, yes, yes, I know this post is late.  I did actually make and eat these pancakes on March 18; however, I'm sure everyone can relate when I say sometimes life just gets in the way of things we truly want to do.  So this time I did the research to find a pancake for Afghanistan, and I must say that it definitely did take some research.  First I used the search term "Afghanistan pancakes", thinking that Google would definitely pull something up.  Wrong!  Then I used Bing, and I still did not have any success.  So I changed my search term to Afghanistan cuisine.  From this point, I decided to search for images of Afghanistan cuisine since I had no idea what the foods were based on their Afghan name.  See, I can use my brain and think outside the box when necessary.  I started sifting through images on the Internet, and for awhile the closest thing I found to a pancake was naan.  I consider naan more of a bread than a pancake, so I began ...

Sunday #1 takes me to the country of Austria.  It all began the Saturday before as I set myself the task of finding a pancake recipe for the next day.  While searching I decided I should go in alphabetical order, which leads me to Austria. Now you would think that having been to Austria, not once, but twice, I would have already tried Austrian pancakes while visiting the country.  It would have made sense if I had, but alas I didn't.  It was probably because I was too busy eating all of the yummy pastries in Austria.  I basically ate pastry the entire time I was there; and when I did eat a meal, it always included a couple of pastries with it.  Anyway, I got my first taste of Austrian pancakes right here in the U.S., and boy were they yummy! Now on to the recipe and the pictures.  We'll start with the recipe.  I found it on allrecipes.com, and we have to thank Dardoubert for the tasty introduction to the Austrian pancake. Ingredients ...