Thursday, 16th July 2009
About Presents and favourite recipes
The end of the school-and kindergarten year is near. Like every year a lot of presents are due. Presents for the school teachers, kindergarten teachers, football- and gymnastic-trainers and so on.
And everyone should get something special. It should be handmade, not to big, useful and what reminds on the common time with the children. Last but not least she or he should get the feeling that it´s very personal, too.
To get the right ideas we, the parents, had to realize this project requires a lot of thinking and discussing. Slowly the fog parted and we achieved a result.
No, I am not going to betray now all our inspirations as nobody knows who is actually reading this pages, but one of the present I have to tell you, hoping you keep this secret.
As the kids are used to cook once or twice a week during their stay in the kindergarten we decided to create a cookbook as a gift for the kindergarten teacher with all the favourite dishes of the children. Every kid should contribute two dishes which they like most. The pages of that booklet will be created and painted by the children themselves. The finishing of this present I will do.
After this decision I asked my daughter to name me two of her favourite dishes. This question of mine was actual only a rhetorical one as I knew the reply in beforehand.
“Rice pudding“
“Always rice pudding. Do you like something else beside this sweet stuff?”
“Chocolate cake, but only this one which you make.” “Ok, what more?”
“Oven ceese!”
Slowly I grew impatient.
Ofenkäse is a ready made product from the supermarket and there is not much cooking involved. So I asked again: “Do you like more beside the rice pudding, chocolate cake and oven cheese?”
“Chocolate!“
“I mean a real dish.”
“Pancake!“ Slowly I got the impression, this cookbook will consist recipes of sweets only.
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Is there nothing what you like in addition and is healthy too?”
“Of course, oven cheese, but you do not accept my….“
I gave up and decided to include the banana pancake with caramelized pieces of mango in the said booklet.
I made it last week and the kids liked it very much.
My daughter cheered when I proposed to enter this dish in that booklet and I hope the kindergarten teacher believe that my children are not only living on pancake and chocolate cake but also on vegetable and fruits (if I force them  )...
Ingredients (for 3 or 4 persons):
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3 |
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egg whites |
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2 |
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bananas |
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5 |
tsps |
confectioner’s sugar |
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300 |
g |
flour |
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250 |
ml |
milk |
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3 |
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egg yolks |
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1 |
pinch |
cinnamon |
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1 |
tsp |
grated lemonzest |
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1 |
pinch |
cardamom |
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7 |
tsps |
butter |
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1 |
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mango |
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1 |
TL |
caramel sauce |
Directions:
- Beat egg whites until stiff.
- Add 1 tsp of confectioner’s sugar and beat again.
- Mix flour, milk, egg yolks, 2 tsps of confectioner’s sugar, cinnamon, lemonzest and cardamom in a kitchen machine.
- Then melt 3 tsps of butter and add to the batter.
- Puree bananas and add them to the batter and mix batter. Now fold in beaten egg whites.
- Melt 2 tsps of butter in a pan. Spoon the batter into a ladle so it can be poured into the hot pan in one go. As soon as the batter hits the hot pan, tip it around from side to side to get the base evenly coated with batter. Brown on both sides and serve hot.
- Peel mango and cut into pieces.
- Heat 2 tsps butter in a pan, add 2 tsps of confectioner’s sugar and leave it to caramelize. Add mango pieces, leave it one minute, turn it around and leave it another minute.
- To serve add mango pieces to the pancake and sprinkle it with confectioner’s sugar oder caramel sauce.
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