Comments on: Dutch Baby Pancakes w/Eggs & Chorizo http://www.fulltimeparenting.com/?p=301 Redefining the Good Life Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:35:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: HBJ http://www.fulltimeparenting.com/?p=301&cpage=1#comment-21 HBJ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:09:33 +0000 http://www.fulltimeparenting.com/?p=301#comment-21 We know, we know, this dinner is a bit of an indulgence (we had salads for lunch knowing that this was on the horizon). We were a little aghast when we discovered that we'd used almost 2 dozen eggs in the preparation of this meal. But with a family of six, there is no way one batch of the Dutch babies will satisfy, so I actually quadrupled it--and we did have leftovers for the morning. I have found that you can double the recipe and put it in a 9 x 13 Pyrex dish in the oven--it isn't as beautiful as if cooked in a skillet, but you can easily cook two of these dishes side by side, and it still puffs to impressive heights. By the way, a pizza cutter cuts the Dutch babies nicely. I started cooking these when I was desperately trying to get as much protein into my vegetarian toddler's diet as possible and found that she loved to watch these "grow" in the oven and devour these eggy pancakes, drizzled with maple syrup. For more adult tastes, make a syrup of lemon juice and butter and then top with a generous sprinkling of powdered sugar. Pure heaven. We scramble the eggs with the cooked chorizo, and this dish offers the perfect counterpoint to the sweetness of the Dutch baby. We served our breakfast for dinner with orange juice but agreed that a nice medley of fruit would have rounded the meal out--and would have made us feel less guilty about its decadence:) We know, we know, this dinner is a bit of an indulgence (we had salads for lunch knowing that this was on the horizon). We were a little aghast when we discovered that we’d used almost 2 dozen eggs in the preparation of this meal. But with a family of six, there is no way one batch of the Dutch babies will satisfy, so I actually quadrupled it–and we did have leftovers for the morning. I have found that you can double the recipe and put it in a 9 x 13 Pyrex dish in the oven–it isn’t as beautiful as if cooked in a skillet, but you can easily cook two of these dishes side by side, and it still puffs to impressive heights. By the way, a pizza cutter cuts the Dutch babies nicely.

I started cooking these when I was desperately trying to get as much protein into my vegetarian toddler’s diet as possible and found that she loved to watch these “grow” in the oven and devour these eggy pancakes, drizzled with maple syrup. For more adult tastes, make a syrup of lemon juice and butter and then top with a generous sprinkling of powdered sugar. Pure heaven.

We scramble the eggs with the cooked chorizo, and this dish offers the perfect counterpoint to the sweetness of the Dutch baby. We served our breakfast for dinner with orange juice but agreed that a nice medley of fruit would have rounded the meal out–and would have made us feel less guilty about its decadence:)

]]>