apple pie pancakes

apple pie pancakes taste amazing! just dice 1 mcintosh apple, add it to your regular pancake batter. add cinnamon and nutmeg. your pancakes will taste like apple pie without even adding butter or syrup! our pancakes also had a hint of funnel cake flavor! 

Indian Recipe For Yellow Squash

I had a good bit of yellow squash in my fridge so I needed to find a recipe to use it up. Thought I would do an Indian one if I could find one since I have a lot of Indian ingredients right now. I found a recipe that calls for yellow squash, "Udipi Sambhar" on Simple Indian Recipes website.

It turned out pretty well. I did not get my lentils smashed enough. Maybe until another time I could puree them. The dish was very spicy. I would leave out some of the red chili peppers until another time. We added some leftover raita (chilled yogurt sauce) to manage the spiciness. Honestly, the recipe seemed to take a while. I would probably combine a few steps next time. There were almost twenty ingredients in the recipe . . .grr.

French Toast With Ground Cloves

I made french toast. I put scrambled egg sprinkles, cinnamon, and syrup on top. The look was almost like whipped cream. Upon trying my food, my french toast tasted too eggy to my liking. I added more syrup to help the flavor some, but to no avail. It still seemed like something was lacking. I went to one of my spice cupboards. "Hmm," I thought. I put some ground cloves on top of my remaining french toast slice, and sampled a bite. I thought it tasted perfect. A few bites later though, the cloves began to wear on me. My french toast began to taste too sweet, almost like candy, like red hots. I don't think I will try cloves on my french toast any time in the near future.

garlic knots

I made some knots for a family gathering. I let baby Shastya feel the dough. You can see her hand print in some of the pictures.