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There are 88 Waffle Houses between Tampa, Florida and Lansing, Michigan. This is fact. My friend and I counted them and played the song "Godzilla" by Blue Oyster Cult after each one we would pass. Thats 88 blessed times."Here is wisdom,
let him who hath understanding reckon the number of Godzilla,
for it is a human number,
and its number shall be eighty-eight."
Tampa spaceport. Nowhere else will you find such a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Good Cuban sandwiches, though, but the traffic was hell. Yeah, best food and worst traffic of anywhere I've ever lived.
The Koga lives in Tampa.
Yes, it is Hell. Not a girl in sight.
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Is Merlin's Books still there in Tampa? Only thing I miss about that infernal city. In the words of my best friend's mother, "it's just a mean spirited place."
Don't sweat about the girlies, man. They have their way of coming around when you least expect them to. Just get your brain trained is the main thang. And when they do come, just be ready to be relaxed and unworried about any of it. If I could get a woman, anybody could.
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Not last night, but the night before,
Three little monkeys came to my door.
One had a sock,
One had a drum,
One had a pancake strapped to his bum!
hehe; ok; seriously now; how many of us make pancakes?
I do; but, usually I prefer waffles if I have the time to make em. Of those of us that make pancakes (and waffles), how many of you guys bother to separate your egg whites from yokes and beat them until stiff for fluffier pancakes?
I have, but usually don't as they just are not that much fluffier for the time; Alton Brown on the food network had a real good show on pancakes, but his biscuit show was much better. My pancakes were always good, but it did improve my biscuits; I just wish that dude would give some flippin high altitude (yes it was a pun and this desert dweller is at 4830ft)instructions in his show. Spent quite a bit of time in Tampa; was great; really like that city, course I took my own girl (wife) and got lucky :)
d13, you're in Lansing too?
Pancakes rock. There's nothing better than getting up on Saturday morning, making a huge mess of pancakes, then having an all-day D&D marathon. (Pancakes make great afternoon snacks, so I always make extra).
I'm a health nut, so here's my recipe:
1/2 cup unbleached white flour
1/2 cup wheat flour
1/2 cup buckwheat flour
1/4 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup raw wheat germ
1/4 cup rolled oats
1 tbsp baking powder
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
1 1/2 cups milk
1 tbsp canola oil
Mix dry ingredients. Beat egg and mix with milk and oil, then stir in to dry ingredients until thoroughly moistened. Add milk if necessary to achieve desired consistency. Cook with no oil on a teflon or well-seasoned cast-iron griddle. Serve with sliced bananas, peanut butter and apple sauce (my personal favorite), honey, jam, syrup, molasses, or just about anything else you like. (My great-grandfather notoriously ate his with ketchup and vinegar!) Serves 2-4--double the recipe and save the leftovers in a ziploc bag for your afternoon mid-game snack (plain or with honey).
Lots of fiber, whole grains, and vitamins in this recipe, and it's easy to add walnuts, blueberries, or just about anything else you like to the batter. It's lembas for gamers, and it keeps you regular, to boot!
hehe my dad lives in Lansing; am from Detroit originally myself; I took one look at the pancake recipe and was like hmm; I dont eat wheat; or corn products if I can help it and believe me; it takes a lot of practice to make good pancakes with low gluten other flours.
Got lots of family in Denver; hehe go Red Wings. Tonight is the last season game of hockey before the playoffs for me; sounds like a good reason to have a pancake festival; and maybe waffles to start off the playoffs on Friday. Sigh, I miss the old days of marathon sessions of a couple days of gaming ending on Sunday at some big brunch all you can eat place; then lots of sleep. All through my family it is traditional to give the first pancake or waffle to the dog, but of course he got served it after we were done; pecking order and all.
Keep sharing the recipes, I like to try new things.
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hehe; ok; seriously now; how many of us make pancakes?
I do; but, usually I prefer waffles if I have the time to make em. Of those of us that make pancakes (and waffles), how many of you guys bother to separate your egg whites from yokes and beat them until stiff for fluffier pancakes?
I make pancake more recently than in the past. There's a reason for my last post! Plus, they refrigerate and reheat well so I can have pancakes on a work morning without having to get up tons earlier.
I've never done the seperation bit - I use Bisquick and darn if those pancakes aren't fluffy enough already. Why Bisquick? It's quick and easy, which for a hungry lazy person is good.
(puts on minister suit) "Let the blessssssssed pancakes be upon us my brothers, for there are no others, and that my friends be the truth! Amen" (takes off minister suit)
That played off in my head the moment I thought about pancakes. Let us be blessed that they are put on this earth.
Oh and about that adventure hook I got one....I'd need more time but rate what I got.
A corrupted Wizard (this is for lvl 20's) turns all the pancakes eaten into abominations, and it is up to you and your group to stop him. But not only are the pancakes the only enemy (Put in suprise while the characters are trying to find the cure to make pancakes a healthy part of breakfest again, when they fall asleep they are kidnapped by WAFFLES!!!) They then take them to a lair with FRENCH TOAST!!!! The french toast Is a vicious monster and will try to eat them. But if the PCs manage to succeed in winning the battle, they will find that they are in a dungeon exspecially designed.
This dungeon is called the toaster and microwave. On a table next to where they fought contains a potion that must be duplicated by powerful wizards and spellcasters and then must be put in a ritualistic like circle where a day long ritual will happen. The only wizards that can do this are trapped by the evil Wizard who transformed the tasty breakfest foods. But some of the traps the wizard laid will turn you into a pastry and you will need to make a 31 fort save or become a rabid pastry. I figure you should make up the stats and what not for your characters. And the places of the traps and what not'.
They run throughout the entire dungeon Unless they make a 35 search check. And as they search and search the Wizard of EVILLLL!!! Is slowly taking the life from the Trapped wizards. If they can get the search check within two runs around the castle they make it in time. If the PCs fail to make it the ritual will take one day longer for each search check the 3rd time and up because eatche failed one past that will get a wizard killed. If all 7 are killed...then you must fight the Wizard, and find a way to release their souls (check the next article for the part 2!) If they survive then you must confront the wizard and if you can smooth talk him diplomacy DC 55 then he gives up and tells you his horrible incident with the delectible pancakes at his early age. The PCs find out that his parents were baking and then the pancake somehow bounced off the oven and interrupted his Wizard father who was well known and respected, but it messed his aim up and he accidently set off a fireball and only the now evil wizard survived.
If you fail to make diplomacy check than you must fight him and hopefully win. If you lose....game over. If you win...i'm not gonna spoil any suprises, I guess you gotta read part 2 when I make it! Please rate this!
Gubbaffet-your homey dawg the gnome
Brothers! Harken to my words! Let us take a pancake, dip it in the batter of egg and vanilla and spice, and lay it within the waffle iron! And lo, the Beast is cometh: French Pannaffle, with a flavor that will force kings to their knees, and cause cities to crumble.
However, it would need bacon and OJ to be truly complete. That's OJ Simpson, which is another recipe entirely.
This is getting corny...
Ultradan
Pan fried corn fritters are awesome!
This is getting corny...
Ultradan
Fried cornmeal mush is also another old favorite, and easy to do mornings because you cook the mush ahead of time and let it solidify in a bread pan in the fridge overnight.
For those who have trouble with wheat or other reasons not to eat it, you can substitute buckwheat flour for the white and wheat flour in my recipe above. I've done it before--the cakes come out a bit heavy and have a stronger flavor (buckwheat is very "nutty", for lack of a better descriptive term), but they are quite edible. Of course, you might want to make sure you have two functioning toilets in your house if you serve it to the whole family--buckwheat's other property is, shall we say, to speed up the movements of the gastro-intestinal tract a bit. Where I do my fieldwork in southwestern China, the Yi people eat buckwheat cakes quite regularly--sometimes they sprinkle little crystals of brown sugar (something like Demerara sugar you can get in specialty stores here) into the batter, which melt while the cakes are cooking and give a nice, slightly sweet flavor. They use a much coarser grind of buckwheat flour, though. I've never tried to duplicate this in my kitchen.
Did somebody say
"Up Butt Coconut" has to become the theme for a teevee show. I know I'd watch it, whatever it'd be.
Man, that's gonna be stuck in my head ALL day!
- Chris Shadowens
I would rather have a waffle; like pancakes, but for some reason they have more chloresteral.
Director of Narrative
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Two relevant quotes by the late Mitch Hedberg
"As a comedian, you have to start the show strong and end the show strong. Those are the two key elements. You can't be like pancakes... all exciting at first, but by the end, you're f%*$ing sick of them."
"A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap. I put fruit on top of my waffles because I want something to brush off."
Two irrelevant (but funny) Mitch Hedberg quotes:
"I'm not into sports. I mean, I like Gatorade, but that's about as far as it goes."
"On a traffic light red means stop, yellow means slow down, and green means go. But on a banana it's the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead and red means 'Where the f~+% did you get that banana at?'"
and a relevant Brian Regan quote:
"I like the International House of Pancakes. You know, I’ve always liked their pancakes. They’re good! I just don’t know who designed the roof to that place. [Forms steeple with hands] That’s a bit much, isn’t it? It’s like a cathedral. [Mimicks solemn church music] They’re just pancakes. You don’t have to worship em! [Sings as church choir] Pa-an-ca-akes. Pa-a-a-an-ca-akes. Pa-a-an-cakes."
Given a choice, I go with waffles. But usually eat pancakes over anything else at Perkins or Village Inn.
PANCAKES, Man! PANCAKES!
With Cinnamon!
Pancakes WITH cinnamon!
and syrup, let's not forget syrup!
Hmmm. Now I'm hungry for some reason. Go figure.
All well & good but MUUUUUCH better with cinnamon & pecans! Mmmmmm, Kirby Lane. (local Austin 24hr place, all hale Kirby!) Love the American waffle too, don't care for all the fluff of the Belgian.
Oh, and breakfast tacos just rock! Oh and when my WHOLE family (it's quite large w/all the cousins and all) gets together, we usually get to have all 3 plus grits (YUCK, I may be from the south but I can't stand that mush) and biscuits & gravy and all sort of other stuff.
I'll have to hunt down the recipes for the "Breakfast Cassarole" and put it up later. For now, here's one for sausage balls that totally rock with some syrup dippin...
6 cups bisquik
1 lb Jimmy Dean Maple Sausage
1 lb Jimmy Dean Regular Sausage
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Mix all ingredients in the largest mixing bowl you have. Then roll into little balls (about 1" diameter), place on cookie sheet about 1/2 inch apart. Place in oven for about 20 minutes or until golden brown. Makes about 4 dozen. Great gaming munchies. Can also use 2 lbs Reg Sausage, the Maple just make them that much sweeter.
Mmmmm, happiness in a popable snack.
Everybody likes pancakes! And it's fun to say "pancakes"!
Actually, I loathe pancakes and breakfast foods in general. They turn my stomach. Admitting this probably marks me as a commie mutant traitor.
It may be fun to say "pancakes" but it's far more entertaining to say: "Umlaut!" Those are the dots above the 'O' in Motorhead or the 'O' and 'U' in Motley Crue. Unfortunately, I can't get my computer to type them.
Could one of our German board members contrubute a few Umlaute for the cause?
Magnolia is better.
All well & good but MUUUUUCH better with cinnamon & pecans! Mmmmmm, Kirby Lane. (local Austin 24hr place, all hale Kirby!)
I went to the one on Lake Austin/Mopac & wasn't that thrilled with it. But it did beat Denny's & IHOP. I try to go local as much as possible. Starz is a nice little 24 hr dive joint too.
I must say I like the 24hr dive joints in the south much better than the one's here in NYC. I miss Waffle House.
I must say I like the 24hr dive joints in the south much better than the one's here in NYC. I miss Waffle House.
Sounds like a road trip is in order.
I have finally gotten my waffle iron to satisfy my sweet buttermilk waffle cravings. If any of y'all make a road trip to Central Oregon, I'd be more than happy to make a stack of 'em for ya. Plus take you to my favorite brew hangouts. :D
I like all breakfast foods and in certain lazy moments have tried several of premade mixed and they are almost all universally not good eating; well except for Bob's Red Mill. For me it is homemade pancakes and waffles, Bob's or leave home though for the kids who love bland white flour that is pretty much nutritionally nothing, I will make a mix for them so keep some in the fridge though when it runs out I will mix up my own biscuit and pancake mix from scratch and keep that in the fridge.
yum, road trip; I am prejudiced against big hole waffles; sure they have more surface area and can possibly cook with a harder outside shell to inner soft fresh baked area and yes you can go crazy with butter and syrup on them, but I try to eat less fat and sugar so I prefer small hole waffles and say down with Belgian waffle makers; now a belgian waffle cookie press is a rare and beautiful thing.
The link won't work for me.
that is just creepy.
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Hmmm...
It is only two hours or so to Bend - and I do like waffles. And beer...
Two hours to Bend? I'm guessing you're in Portland, then? :D
And back on topic: Now I have a low-level craving for Pancakes. Thanks a lot guys for rezzing this thread. :P
Eugene, actually. And now I want pancakes, too...
Two hours to Bend? I'm guessing you're in Portland, then? :D
And back on topic: Now I have a low-level craving for Pancakes. Thanks a lot guys for rezzing this thread. :P
I think Vattnisse is in Eugene, but it can take two hours depending on the passes.
Only a low-level craving? Sheesh! And that rez will cost you! :)
DANG IT, between catching up on this thread and listing to Invader Zim, I'm wanting some pancacks & waffles now! grrr, maybe this weekend. *le sigh*
You know, if you're in the San Antonio area, you could prevail upon Lilith's mommy for some smashingly good pamcakes. :)