If there's one thing my dad and I can agree on, it's pancakes.
He ordered chocolate-chip pancakes for Father's Day brunch, so to shake things up a bit I decided to make a double recipe of the puffy pillow pancakes from Isa Does It (p. 253) instead of my favorite pancakes from Vegan with a Vengeance.
They were really yummy and certainly fluffier than my usual, but no where near "just under an inch thick" as suggested in the recipe and corresponding picture.
To make things a bit more exciting, I made a raspberry sauce that was adapted from the blueberry sauce recipe in VWAV (p. 39).
Quality control:
My sauce receptacle was a bit too small for the half batch I'd made, so VM- lover of all things raspberry, got the windfall of what was left in the saucepan once the creamer was filled to capacity.
I'm not a huge raspberry fan, but the sauce was really good; I did wind up adding a little to my river of maple syrup.
OD got a plate-sized pancake with a chocolate-chip initial.
And, the leftovers.
For dinner, VM made pasta (capers for me only).
I made garlic bread.
And a salad for good measure.
89 chowed down on some Romaine as well.
And, even though we really shouldn't have, we had dessert. Coconut Bliss ice cream: salted caramel & chocolate and chocolate walnut brownie.
Is anyone else driven crazy by the fact that Coconut Bliss doesn't do a very good job of describing the flavors on their pint containers? "chocolate hazelnut fudge" doesn't begin to explain the magic contained therein. So, my revised descriptions are as follows- salted caramel & chocolate: creamy caramel ice cream swirled with salted caramel ribbons and melt-in-your-mouth chocolate shavings. Chocolate walnut brownie: rich, dark chocolate ice cream boasting large, chopped walnuts and decadent brownie bites.
P.S. There may or may not have been some Sweet Ritual salted caramel sauce involved as well (more on that soon!).
Finally, here's 89 swiping a present for her...that somehow got mixed up in my dad's Father's Day gift. Funny how that happened!
Hope everyone enjoyed their day as much as we did.
He ordered chocolate-chip pancakes for Father's Day brunch, so to shake things up a bit I decided to make a double recipe of the puffy pillow pancakes from Isa Does It (p. 253) instead of my favorite pancakes from Vegan with a Vengeance.
They were really yummy and certainly fluffier than my usual, but no where near "just under an inch thick" as suggested in the recipe and corresponding picture.
To make things a bit more exciting, I made a raspberry sauce that was adapted from the blueberry sauce recipe in VWAV (p. 39).
Quality control:
My sauce receptacle was a bit too small for the half batch I'd made, so VM- lover of all things raspberry, got the windfall of what was left in the saucepan once the creamer was filled to capacity.
I'm not a huge raspberry fan, but the sauce was really good; I did wind up adding a little to my river of maple syrup.
OD got a plate-sized pancake with a chocolate-chip initial.
And, the leftovers.
For dinner, VM made pasta (capers for me only).
I made garlic bread.
And a salad for good measure.
89 chowed down on some Romaine as well.
And, even though we really shouldn't have, we had dessert. Coconut Bliss ice cream: salted caramel & chocolate and chocolate walnut brownie.
Is anyone else driven crazy by the fact that Coconut Bliss doesn't do a very good job of describing the flavors on their pint containers? "chocolate hazelnut fudge" doesn't begin to explain the magic contained therein. So, my revised descriptions are as follows- salted caramel & chocolate: creamy caramel ice cream swirled with salted caramel ribbons and melt-in-your-mouth chocolate shavings. Chocolate walnut brownie: rich, dark chocolate ice cream boasting large, chopped walnuts and decadent brownie bites.
P.S. There may or may not have been some Sweet Ritual salted caramel sauce involved as well (more on that soon!).
Finally, here's 89 swiping a present for her...that somehow got mixed up in my dad's Father's Day gift. Funny how that happened!
