Breakfast

"The perfect, all-out weekend breakfast"

8/27/2006 11:43:00 AM

Let me divert your attention away from my European adventures for the moment. Back in Oz, I'm finding myself quite busy settling back in, what with work, uni (heh!), catching up with my friends and that sort of thing. And seeing as both my brother and I do shift work, it's getting hard for the whole family to find time to spend together. However, earlier this week I realised that, miraculously, we were all going to be home on Saturday morning for a whole TWO HOURS! I decided to cook breakfast. Pancakes, of course.

I love pancakes in all shapes and forms, but for yesterday I decided to make ones that were a bit different and special - Nigella's pumpkin pancakes with sticky maple pecans. The recipe is featured in Nigella's article about pumpkins, in this month's Delicious.

These pancakes are like ordinary breakfast pancakes, with the addition of cooked and mashed pumpkin, and buttermilk. So in this way I suppose they're similar to Nigella's banana buttermilk pancakes, from Feast. I'm pleased to report that the pumpkin version is far, far superior.

The pancake batter is lovely and golden, thanks to the mashed pumpkin.


Yellow Batter

To transform pecans into sticky-maple pecans, you toast them in a pan, before adding a couple of spoonfuls of maple syrup, and slowly stirring them until they're "stickly, frostily coated". They are quite delicious and totally compulsive. Try not to eat them all before the pancakes are ready.


Maple Pecans

I decided to serve the pancakes with strawberries, so that they wouldn't feel so heavy. Plus, they were cheap at the supermarket. And they look so pretty in a bowl!


Strawberries


The Breakfast Table

The pumpkin pancakes are really lovely. They're soft and light, with a fab velvety texture. You can really taste the pumpkin, and I love the gratifyingly bright yellow colour! This recipe is definitely a keeper.


Pancake stack with extra maple syrup. Drool.

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4 comments

  1. Anonymous5:10 PM

    What a colour and taste combination! Very insipiring!

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  2. Sarah, just one word - WOW!

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  3. Anonymous12:29 AM

    i'm not really one to comment (as you probably know), but this recipe sounds amazing.. i'm glad to hear it's in this month's 'delicious' as i picked one up earlier today. i'll definitely try it out very soon.

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  4. Anonymous4:48 PM

    Oh wow - these look fantastic!

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