Aug 20 2008
Dining, West Coast Style
I’ve been fortunate enough to have several trips through to the West to see friends of late. The standard of cooking has been very high:
Chickpea and Feta Salad with chilli and (slightly cooked therefore no indigestion) red onion and spring onion
And, by the same sexy chef, a fantastic Carrot Cake (with walnuts on the icing!!)
Then, elsewhere, there was home made strawberry panna cotta. I can only assume this was made with vegetarian gelatine, but it was delicious. The strawberries managed to taste like the smell of strawberry jam cooking in my mum’s kitchen. Brilliant!
The next morning, in honour of (and made possible by) our wonderful, sorely missed already, canadian guest, we had pancakes with proper Maple Syrup.
Thankfully I don’t feel I’ve let the side down too badly. I had Miss Canadia and KK her host over for dinner last week….more on that to come.
Yay! Proper pancakes! ;)
To be honest the pancakes were the least proper bit of it. None of us really knew what we were doing and we didn’t have a recipe, so KK and Dr A went through to the kitchen and faffed about with flour and stuff (they made a lot of noise, I don’t know much else) until they had a batter of the right consistency. They tasted just fine though.
The sirop d’erable, on the other hand, was proper bona fide real deal.
Maybe I’m just getting your pseudonyms mixed up but surely it was Dr A and our host that made the pancakes?
K is from canada. KK was our host. I can’t help it if they have such similar names!
Heh, I assumed one of those Ks stood for Kanadian! :-)