Doom Chicken eats you!
My plot to drag this thread off-topic and sow contention has succeeded!
I'm not sure if you noticed, but the "topic" of this thread IS off-topic.
But... but...
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
If you're out of maple syrup, I recommend peanut butter on your pancakes. I thought it was crazy till I tried it.
Also, if you haven't done it, try putting bacon in your pancakes. I do it by starting a couple strips of bacon, when they're about 1/2 way to how I like them, I pour the pancake batter on top of the bacon. Cook the pancake and serve.
I like to pile cinnamon and sugar on cold pancakes, roll them up, and devour.
I basically inhale peanut butter already... I go through a jar in about two weeks ;_;
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Cashew butter.
Speculoos.
And in case you were wondering...
Growing for sugar maple requires a tree branching out and getting very bushy. Sugar maple lumber would prefer the tree to be as much of a telephone pole as possible. They're not QUITE mutually exclusive but its pretty close.
I like to pile cinnamon and sugar on cold pancakes, roll them up, and devour.
Doom CHicken devours all.
Speculoos.
I heartily approve of this suggestion, though it can get in the way of homemade maple syrup ingestion.
|
If you're out of maple syrup, I recommend peanut butter on your pancakes. I thought it was crazy till I tried it.
I grew up putting Peanut butter on pancakes and when I first saw someone eating them without it thought they were crazy. I have of course come to learn it's not as common as I grew up believing.
Speculoos.I heartily approve of this suggestion, though it can get in the way of homemade maple syrup ingestion.
Why not both?
And in case you were wondering...
Growing for sugar maple requires a tree branching out and getting very bushy. Sugar maple lumber would prefer the tree to be as much of a telephone pole as possible. They're not QUITE mutually exclusive but its pretty close.
Why not both?Speculoos.I heartily approve of this suggestion, though it can get in the way of homemade maple syrup ingestion.
I have the sneaking suspicion that my sweet-tooth couldn't handle it if the pancakes were made with chocolate chips, too.
Nuh-uh.And in case you were wondering...
Growing for sugar maple requires a tree branching out and getting very bushy. Sugar maple lumber would prefer the tree to be as much of a telephone pole as possible. They're not QUITE mutually exclusive but its pretty close.
I stand corrected. That could indeed revolutionize maple syrup production.
Just as an aside, I've ALWAYS preferred naturally sweet products to synthetic candies. I love me some real (black) licorice, maple syrup, honey, chocolate, etc.
If you're out of maple syrup, I recommend peanut butter on your pancakes. I thought it was crazy till I tried it.
Also, if you haven't done it, try putting bacon in your pancakes. I do it by starting a couple strips of bacon, when they're about 1/2 way to how I like them, I pour the pancake batter on top of the bacon. Cook the pancake and serve.
I'm really kinda grossed out by peanut butter. It has to be super smooth and sugary for me to find it palatable.
However, anything sweet and thick was kinda interchangeable in my household growing up. Honey or chocolate syrup on waffles? Sure. Jam or maple syrup on ice cream? Excellent. I grew up on peanut butter and honey sandwiches.
I may just have to try that bacon pancake thing though.
I should probably learn how to make my own peanut butter now that I have a food processor...
I should probably learn how to make my own peanut butter now that I have a food processor...
I suggest starting with peanuts and butter...
Beyond that, you're on your own! =)
The strait/bushy top isn't about flow its about volume. You need a LOT of sap to make syrup, and collecting it in buckets doesn't exactly preserve every drop.
The upflow/downflow thing isn't news. IIRC you can actually get syrup thats one or the other: supposedly they taste different.
I don't know if a vacuum pump on a tree is really economically feasible.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Just plant the trees upside down!
I actually live inside a maple tree. I bathe in syrup every morning. I make pancake-waffles out of green onion bacon and peanut butter. I then make a sandwich out of two of them with tater tots in the middle which have been dipped in sugar and cinnamon. That about cover it all?
What are they eating at the Olympics? Is it all borscht and caviar? Potatoes 3 meals a day? What's for dinner in Russia?
If you're out of maple syrup, I recommend peanut butter on your pancakes. I thought it was crazy till I tried it.I grew up putting Peanut butter on pancakes and when I first saw someone eating them without it thought they were crazy. I have of course come to learn it's not as common as I grew up believing.
For me it was being in the navy and breakfast being constantly the same thing every day. The one bright spot being working nights, I could hit the eggs to order line at 4:30 am without having to wait. Every other line they served powdered eggs which produce unpleasant results about an hour later.
I heard the Navy has (had?) fabulous chocolate cake. Or does it depend upon which ship you're aboard?
My dad taps trees on his home lot for sap. I recently got a bottle of last year's batch, and lucked out: maple candy crystallized on the bottom of my jar.
Yes, BNW is right: it takes something like 40 gallons of sap for a gallon of syrup.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
Today I had truffle mac and cheese guys. My mind is diverted from all waffles and pancakes and is comfortably nestled in noodles and an excess of melted cheese.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Today I had truffle mac and cheese guys. My mind is diverted from all waffles and pancakes and is comfortably nestled in noodles and an excess of melted cheese.
STAY ON TOPIC!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I saw Mac & cheese pizza at CiCi's and immediately turned into Jim Gaffigan.
"This is ridiculous. I guess I'll try it."
Mmm... cicis. If EVER a place was created solely for gamers, it was cicis. I'm jus sad the one by my house closed. CL: there's a swank place called Boulevard near me that serves truffle fries. They are gorgeous. The best thing I've had lately was a ridiculous reuben from a deli near work; the thing must've been 5 lbs.
Mmm... cicis. If EVER a place was created solely for gamers, it was cicis.
There's one pretty close to where my bank is. I'm surprised how rarely I go there lately.
Granted, that could be simply because when I do have a pizza craving, I typically sate it with the Little Caesar's that's less than a minute's drive from work.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Thats.. not.. pizza....
On the grounds that a tortilla is like a pancake, I hereby enter my favorite sandwich: a flour tortilla spread with peanut butter, sprinkled with brown sugar, and wrapped around a banana.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
From Red Dwarf:
Toaster: "Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?"
Lister: "Look, I don't want any toast, and he doesn't want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. No toast."
Toaster: "How 'bout a muffin?"
Lister: "Or muffins. We don't like muffins around here. We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks."
Toaster: "Aah, so you're a waffle man."
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Today I might be having a gyro. I just cleaned my whole apartment, I think I totally should.
Pitas are also like-pancakes. Yes, have a gyro. Om nom.
| 2 people marked this as a favorite. |
This morning I have a salted caramel mocha and news that my car will be fixed. Glorious tuesday to all!
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I keep imagining some scenario where this thread becomes self-referential and starts repeating posts in an endless loop.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I keep imagining some scenario where this thread becomes self-referential and starts repeating posts in an endless loop.
I keep imagining some scenario where this thread becomes self-referential and starts repeating posts in an endless loop.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I keep imagining some scenario where this thread becomes self-referential and starts repeating posts in an endless loop.I keep imagining some scenario where this thread becomes self-referential and starts repeating posts in an endless loop.
I keep imagining some endless loop where this thread becomes scenario and starts repeating posts in a self-referential.
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
I'm referencing this thread as we speak. o_o
I just glad to see Chris talking in character.
Well, the next step from pancakes and tortillas would be crepes, but I'll take a quick sidestep to injera, which is one of my favorite foods. Uh, does that break the loop, or just turn it into a Mobius strip?
Yes.
First off: I referenced this thread twice this afternoon, and it was spectacular. What a mindscramble... hurts SO good.
Secondly: I miss the Egyptian/Mediterranean place by my old house back in IL. I worked late shift at UPS but if I sped home I could make it there just before they closed. I'd get the shwarma dinner, extra meat, and no pita. Not that I don't like pita mind you, just that I didn't want all the bread. Then I'd get home, stay up all night with my baby girl and a tummy FULL of shaved lamb and assorted happiness.
Finally: in closing I'd just like to say that food, for lack of a better term, is GOOD. Food works. Whether its food for money, food for love, food in all its forms is what drives us.
As I've often mused, the words we know of foreign languages are most often food or rude.
English Muffin Pizzas are tasty.
