Eggless Pancakes

I'm hoping these bad boys will inspire me to get through my French homework!! Since I 
understood very little of my French lesson last night I figured I should do some extra work! 

They're insanely easy to make. 


You need:
1 cup plain flour
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup milk (I used buttermilk as we had some left in the fridge, but normal milk works just fine)
1 tablespoon sunflower oil
1 tablespoon water
2 tablespoons melted butter


So all you need to do is mix the wet ingredients together then whisk in the dry ingredients. If you can leave it to rest for a while that's great, if not then it's fine to use straight away. 


 Warm a frying pan (or one of those wonderful old-fashioned cast iron griddle pans) and melt butter into it. I never said they were healthy pancakes! 
 Now you don't want the pan to be too hot else the pancakes will brown too quickly and not cook through. So a medium heat. 
 When the pan's ready pour a good dollop into the pan and smooth it into what ever shape you fancy, you want the pancake to be about the thickness of two pound coins stacked on top of each other. The pancakes will start to get holes in the top of them when they're ready to be flipped over. Basically when the top of the pancake looks like a crumpet it's ready to be flipped. 
Cook on the other side until brown and repeat the process until the batter's used up. My batter made about 7 big pancakes which I smothered in more butter and maple syrup. Yum! 

Tuesday Camera Walk :)

So today was a day of getting out of the house and chilling out with the camera before paying Tango a stupid amount (expat tip for Luxembourg don't get a phone with Tango, they rip you off!!) 
I wandered through the park and then down into the Petruse Valley which was, as always, beautiful! I have a wonderful secret garden that I go to for some peace and quiet when I'm in town and today it was bathed in sunshine and completely peaceful and empty. Bliss! 

Here are today's pictures. Picsa (my go to editing tool) has had some updates and I'm loving them! 

It's the Weekend!

So I think I tempted fate when I posted 'what will the weekend bring?' as yesterday turned into a bit of an adventure! H and I got very lost on the buses in Kirchberg, we were trying to get to the cinema in Limpetsberg, then ended up walking for about half an hour trying to find the other cinema (neither of us have a great sense of direction when it comes to buses!!) After finding the cinema, realising there were no films on and eating a McDonalds we headed back to town to chill out with some seriously tasty Kir Royals at the Octave festival. Lovely chilled day! Then back to the house for me, sent the LE's out for a date night and chilled with 'Some Like it Hot' and an individual bottle of Crement. Absolute bliss. I also made tomato and lentil curry with chapattis, which I haven't made for ages and had forgotten how much I loved it. I think the last time I made it was in my wonderful kitchen in the Lake District, with my view of the Fairfield Horse Shoe out of the huge sash windows, and my friend S had brought round an attractive straggler she'd found for some dinner. Man I miss those days! 


 Today started very abruptly when the male twin burst into my room at horrible o'clock, jumped on my bed and shouted 'it's my birthday!!!' a very rude awakening, but as I stumbled into LE's bedroom to open presents with them I was greeted by a large cup of tea!
 Church was a welcome break this morning, and as it was the first Sunday of the month there were worship songs instead of the usual hymns. The twins party took up most of the afternoon and I think that sleep won't be far off this evening. 
  I'll post the curry recipe at some point, it's really delicious. It's also the perfect thing to cook if there's just you eating. I realised yesterday that I hadn't properly cooked just for me for over 2 years. It was a very strange realisation! I'm looking forward to cooking just for me again. 

What a week!

What a week it's been! I've had the most horrendous couch/bug/kill me know I feel so gross, and the kids have been so tired, so it's been a week of treats, trips and comfort food! 


 First we had a trip. Now my memory is horrific, or at least it is when I'm thinking about places I've been. It was May Day (holiday for everyone over here) on Tuesday so we went on a trip to Belgium! It was gorgeous! We went to a lovely Arboretum (fancy way of saying a collection of trees. The Arboretum in Nottingham was much lovelier than this one, and has lovely family romantic connections, so it's special) Anyway, I was expecting a Nottingham style Arboretum but instead we arrived at a woods with sweet little dens and a massive badger set complete with bones of some poor animal that had been eaten! The kids LOVED this! They thought it was amazing. And so did I, I've not seen many badger sets and I think they're fascinating animals! 

 So then we went to our picnic spot of the day (honestly, if I could remember what the place was called I would tell you!! I'll ask LE tomorrow) it was stunning! I fell in love with this place completely!

I know I got a bit snap happy with the Church, but it was just so gorgeous! And built in 1702! 


 So comfort food this week was Kedgree made with salmon, yum yum! It was a really easy recipe, just rice cooked with curry powder, grilled salmon, peas, sweetcorn, creme fraisch and boiled eggs. Yum yum. 

And my treat was virgin strawberry margaritas this afternoon in the sun with H :) blissful way to end a hectic week!! Let's see what the weekend will bring!