Cherry & Rhubarb Oven Pancake
Serves 4-6 depending on hunger level
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4 tablespoons sugar
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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125grams/4ozs plain flour
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500ml/2 cups milk
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2 eggs
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butter for greasing
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2 sticks of raw rhubarb chopped into smallish pieces and a handful of fresh, pitted cherries or 2/3 cup of other fruit that you like in small pieces
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Icing sugar, cream or ice cream and maple syrup to serve
Step 1 - Place the sugar, salt and flour in a medium sized mixing bowl and whisk lightly to combine. In a jug measure milk and add the two eggs beating the eggs until combined. Incorporate the milky egg mixture into the flour with a whisk adding it in 3-4 lots. Stand for 10 minutes.
Step 2 - Preheat oven to 200C/400F. Grease a baking dish and pour the pancake batter into the tray and sprinkle over with rhubarb pieces or other fruit. Bake for 30 minutes until puffy and golden. Sift over with icing sugar and serve with cream and maple syrup.
Personal Note
"Soooo what shall we do today?" I asked Mr NQN pacing the floor of our apartment.
"I dunno. Go for a bike ride?"
"No, I only do two challenges a year thanks" I replied not mentally ready to take up my third ability nemesis. For most, driving a car, swimming and riding a bike are normal everyday activities. For me, aka an uncoordinated version of Woody Allen, they're numbingly frightening challenges. And reserved for momentous occasions.
"How about we go for a walk?" he suggested.
"I'm not that desperate for something to do" I snorted and left the room.
In truth I was quite desperately bored on holidays. I'm used to having a huge list of things to do and I knew these holidays were meant for relaxing but relaxing was so....dull. The dishes were all washed, the floor was clean and I had even cleaned the dishwasher strainer thingy which goes to show how truly desperate I was for something to do away from the computer which was the key activity that I was supposed to avoid (and the one that would prove the most alluring).
So far the highlight of my day was a petty act of revenge on my mother. She likes to call on the phone and when she has finished talking she simply hangs up without saying goodbye. I call it "Jack Bauer'ing" (of the TV show "24") and time and time again she would cut me off while I was mid sentence with a "click" of the phone and I'd howl "She Jack Bauer'd me!" to Mr NQN. Today I had managed to do it to her - mid sentence no less!
Yes clearly I needed a hobby if this was the highlight of my day...