Pancake Travels

It's been awhile since I posted about pancakes, but I've become semi-consistent in eating pancakes once again.  My pancake travels have recently taken me to Ghana followed by Gibraltar.  Unfortunately I can't seem to find the pictures I took while making pancakes for either of these two countries.  So, I'm going to post the video I followed for Ghanian pancakes, and a link to the website I used for pancakes from Gibraltar. Ghana In Ghana, the pancakes are thin and crepe like.  I really enjoyed the nutmeg flavor of these pancakes.  The taste of them reminded me of a family sugar cookie recipe that my mom made for us growing up.  Below is the video.  For the full printed recipe, click here . Gibraltar For Gibraltar, I opted for a less traditional pancake.  While doing the research for Gibraltar, I discovered a website called Momma Lotties .  This website is run by a gentleman named Justin, and he focuses on cuisine from Gibraltar.    ...

So, I'm finally back to my worldly pancake travels and blogging.  My recent pancake travels have reminded me how "interesting" they can be! Before I jump right into the pancake blogging, here's a little info. about why my travels came to such an abrupt halt.  The last year has been extremely busy and hectic for me.  In addition to continuing to care for a very sick dog (see this post if you are interested in learning more),  A few months later, I was given a new role also, a role in which I wore (and continue to wear) many different hats, but most of those hats had a technology emphasis. So when I wasn't caring for my dogs, I was a pretty big workaholic for much of the time I was gone. Then last November, I lost my Mac to the cancer tumor that was in his chest.  It was one of the toughest things I've had to go through because despite the fact that he was still taking care of his needs and going for walks, he was no longer able to eat food (the tumor in his ch...

So, I once again found myself in a world without pancake Sundays.  I havne't had a whole lof time to discover the pancakes for my next country.   During my time away, I did make pancakes from Georgia and Germany.  I just haven't had the time to blog about it yet.  Now, finding a little bit of free time on my hands, I decided to go ahead and blog about these two countries.  So, without further ado, I move on to Georgia. Before giving you the pancake recipe from Georgia, I just wanted to mention that my travels first took us back to Africa, to the countries of Gabon and The Gambia.  However, I had the same problem I've often had in African countries, no pancakes that I could discover.  After some pretty serious investigating, I decided to move on to Georgia.  As always, if anyone knows of pancakes from either of these two countries and can point me in the right direction, I'd gladly revisit these two countries. In Georgia, pancakes are called mchadi...

I've arrived in Finland where, like many European nations, they do actually eat crepes.  However, I soon learned that they also have their own unique baked pancake called an Aland pancake.  It's called this because it comes from the Aland region of Finland.  This region isn't a part of mainland Finland.  It is a group of islands in the Baltic Sea.  Also, in addition to this being a baked pancake, the Finnish people call their pancakes pannukakku. I discovered many different ways of making pannukakku, each involving different types of grains.  I found some of them use regular all purpose flour, while others use rice or semolina flour in combination with all purpose flour.  I opted for a recipe that used a combination of semolina flour and all purpose flour.  Here is what you'll need to make the version of Finnish pannukakku that I made: 4 cups of milk 1/3 cup of semolina flour 1 teaspoon salt 4 eggs 1/2 cup of sugar 1 cup of flour 1 tablespoon card...

Before I start talking about Fijian pancakes, did you know that February is National Pancake Month here in the states?  Neither did I.  Apparently it is though.  I also wanted to say that made dessert "pancakes" this morning as well.  I use quotation marks because they aren't really pancakes that I made for dessert, but chocolate chip cookies that were really yummy.  Check out the recipe at Serious Eats if you have a chance.  For those who are science minded, you can view how they came up with this cookie recipe here .  O.K., now back to pancake blogging.  I find myself finally beginning the Fs.  In Fiji I discovered that their version of pancakes is roti.  Roti is a roll out style pancake that actually comes from India.  I learned as I researched Fijian roti that comes from Indian contract laborers who were brought to the country in the 19th century.  Fijians typically eat their roti with some sort of curry.  I opted to ...

I'll start this post off by saying I forgot to mention in my last post on Estonia why I skipped Eritrea and moved on to Estonia.  The reason for this was because I couldn't find teff flour anywhere locally.  Also, because the Eritrean pancake batter takes 3 days to ferment, and I just didn't have the time to do this, I decided to move on to Estonia temporarily. However, this weekend I not only had my teff flour in hand, but I also had the 3 days it takes to make these pancakes.  So I'm now off to Eritrea and Ethiopia.  I've decided to consider these pancakes both Eritrean and Ethiopian for many reasons.  Here they are: Eritrea and Ethiopia both make a bready pancake called injera. Both of their injera recipes call for teff flour Everytime I looked up the recipe I used for the lentil stew to go with it, some of the recipes that would show up were listed as Eritrean, and some of them were listed as Ethiopian. Both countries use a sour teff batter to make their res...