Pancake Travels

Thanks for joining me as I begin my journey to the countries that begin with the letter B.  My journey takes me back to the Caribbean, where I take a journey to The Bahamas.  If you recall, my first journey to the Caribbean took me to Anguilla.  If you're wondering why I've used the word journey so many times in just a few short sentences, rest assured that my frequent use of the word journey thus far has been deliberate.  If you had a chance to read the post on Anguilla, you can probably guess why.  As in Anguilla, they eat journey cakes in The Bahamas too.  Rather than repost the same recipe and pictures, I'll just take you back to our Anguillan journey.  The ship journeying to Anguilla leaves now. O.K., I think I'm done using the word journey for awhile.  My trip to the Bahamas fell on Father's Day, so I invited my parents to journey there with me (sorry, I just couldn't resist using the word journey again).  Here is a picture of the prepa...

A couple of weeks ago I finished up our journey through the A countries by making Qutab from Azerbaijan.  As I researched, I discovered that qutab is a stuffed pancake, and from the pictures I saw of it, it looked absolutely fantastic.  You can make it either savory (with ground beef and onions) or sweet (with pumpkin, pomegranate seeds, and cinnamon).  I opted to make the savory version since pumpkin isn't currently in season where I am, and the only pumpkin I found available was canned pumpkin puree.  The canned pumpkin puree probably would have worked, but it might have made for a soggy qutab. After seeing the pictures of qutab, I was all excited to make it until I read the directions for making it.  If you've read any of our other blogs, you can probably guess why my enthusiasm for this recipe waned upon reading the directions.  If you guessed that it's because it requires the pancake being rolled out, then you are right.  It's another roll out typ...

As I begin to come to the end of the countries that start with A, I come to Australia.  I was hoping to actually find an Aboriginal Australian pancake, but I didn't have much luck with that.  Instead I found that Australia has a couple of different types of pancakes that come from their English heritage.  The first one is called a pikelet.  This is a more traditional flour type of pancake.  The other one is called a bubble and squeak, which is more similar to the Andorran trinxat and made from potatoes.  I decided to go for the potato pancake version.  I made this decision for two reasons:  1)  I've had the flour version of pancakes for a few weeks now, and I wanted to mix things up a bit, and 2)  New Zealand also eats the pikelet as their pancake, so I thought it would be best to save the pikelet for then. As I searched for bubble and squeak recipes, I discovered the reason why they're named bubble and squeak.  Apparently the veget...

If you haven't guessed already, this next post takes us to the land of Aruba.  Hopefully once I've finished writing the blog for Aruba's pancakes I will be able to get that Beach Boys song out of my head for awhile.  It has been randomly going through my head every time I think about writing the blog for them for the last couple of weeks now; and let's not even talk about the fact that I couldn't get it out of my head the entire Sunday that I made the pancakes. It took a little bit of investigative work to find the Aruban version of pancakes.  I finally found out that they are called pan bati.  Once I had a name for them, it was relatively easy to find a recipe as well.  As I'm finding in many countries, Arubans eat their pancakes with many of their meals and not just for breakfast.  So here we go on our Aruban pancake adventure. Ingredients: 2 cups flour 1 cup corn flour 2 tablespoons baking powder Pinch of Salt 1 egg 1 3/4 cups milk Sugar to taste Vanilla...

So this next post brings me to the country of Armenia.  For this country, I set to research what an Armenian Pancake might be.  I must say, I am getting really good at finding them now.  No more hours and hours of searching before I find something that might even be a clue to what they could be.  When I concluded his research, I discovered that there are a couple of types of Armenian pancakes.  I decided to try the one called bishi.  Much to my dismay, this involved rolling the pancake dough out into a circle.  Ack!  Although I was somewhat successful with the last pancake recipe that required this, I still have my moments where I lack confidence when it comes to rolling out dough.  I hoped and hoped that this one wouldn't give me any problems. We must give thanks to a blogger right here on Blogger.  I discovered the recipe I used on the blog The Armenian Kitchen.com .  There were some other recipes on the site that looked really t...