JENN McKINLAY: It's been a stressful winter/spring -- deadlines, moving Hooligans, and the world at large -- to name just a few. The capper was my mom suffering a broken foot (open fracture no less) while visiting us, putting her in a boot for month. When we got back from the ER, emergency cheer up food was required!
Normally when I am stressed, I have a hard time eating anything. However, the dutch baby breaks through all that silliness with its yummy goodness, so I share it with you.
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| DUTCH BABY |
Sadly, I am not Celia, so there is no video just a recipe and pics, but trust me it's delicious! Also, I got the recipe from @cast_iron_chris on Instagram so that makes my time spent on social media worth it!
Ingredients:
3 large eggs, room temperature
1/2 cup whole milk
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1 Tablespoon sugar
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Powdered sugar
Directions:
Heat all metal skillet in oven at 425.
Mix eggs, milk, flour, sugar, and nutmeg until smooth.
Add butter to hot skillet and let it melt.
Once butter is melted, add the batter to the skillet and bake for 20 mins until walls and center of Dutch Baby have puffed up. Turn off oven and let it bake another five minutes. Don't open the door during baking or baby will deflate. Remove from oven add powdered sugar and sautéed apples (optional). Enjoy!
Apples: Peel and slice 3 granny smith apples, melt a tablesopon of butter in medium sized pot, adding cinnamon and brown sugar to taste. I used a Tablespoon of brown sugar and a half teaspoon of cinnamon.
Coat with powdered sugar:
Okay, Reds and Readers, what's your go-to comfort food?
Dutch Baby is a favorite here, too . . . try it with blueberries when they're in season . . . .
ReplyDeleteGo-to comfort food? Anything chocolate!
Hope your mom feels better real soon . . . .
I have never had Dutch Baby. Does anyone have any idea how it got its vaguely horrifying (to me, as suggests dining on infants) name? The actual dish looks delish. Jenn, I hope your mom feels better and the wild rumpus settles down. In your life and everywhere. I agree with Joan about chocolate. (Selden)
ReplyDeleteOh man I needed this laugh this morning. And yeah, this dish name needs an upgrade! It sounds delicious and I am adding it to my list of new recipes to try. Sounds so comforting!
DeleteI love Dutch Baby but rarely make it at home.
ReplyDeleteHope your mom heals well, JENN.
I agree with JOAN and SEIDEN, any dish with chocolate will make me feel better!
Okay this sent me down a rabbit hole because I wanted to know if a Dutch Baby was the same thing as a Pannekoeken. There is a a pannekoeken restaurant in Rochester, MN where the waitresses run them out to the tables shouting “Pannekoeken! Pannekoeken!” I assume in an effort to get there before they deflate. They are not as thick as Jenn’s photo of her Dutch Baby. They are a pancake from the Netherlands and differ in thickness from North to South. In the South they are thin and rolled up like a French crepe. Another source says the batter is the same as a Dutch Baby but the cooking method is different.
ReplyDeleteThen I also wanted to know where the name Dutch Baby came from. I found this: Dutch Baby pancakes are derived from German Pancakes. The name ``Dutch'' was coined by Manca's Cafe (1900-1950), a restaurant in Seattle. The owners' daughter mispronounced the German word ``Deutsch'' which means German and it was originally served as 3 small (baby) pancakes, hence the name, ``Dutch Baby.'' And, you’ll like this Jenn, other names for the Dutch baby— A Dutch baby pancake, sometimes called a German pancake, a Bismarck, a Dutch puff, Hooligan, or a Hootenanny.
Hooligan is a perfect alternative name for JENN since she has H1 and H2.
DeleteThanks for going down the rabbit hole.
Ah, I used to make this in the days before we knew of my husband's cholesterol issues. One of our favorites, but no more. It's really so delicious!
ReplyDeleteRealized I never answered the question. My go to comfort food is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
ReplyDeleteThat's like a breakfast apple pie! My ex-husband used to make it but called it Oos Pa Pah, No idea what that means, unless it's Dutch Baby in Dutch or something.
ReplyDeleteI have made a French toast breakfast bake, with cream and Grand Marnier that soaks overnight. It's wicked good - and rich. Right now, with thanks to Karen from Ohio, I'm about to have my morning square of dark chocolate with my coffee!
I do like making French toast as a treat. I use cinnamon raisin bread/brioche and add more cinnamon + orange zest/juice.
DeleteI'm toasting you with my own dark chocolate and coffee, Edith!
DeleteI should have added that I hope your mom's foot heals up soon and easily. Is that why you are/were on the east coast, helping her?
DeleteI’m sure your breakfast was delicious. You make me think that it should work with Baileys too.
DeleteI like to try different kinds of bread when making French toast. Of course, especially at this time of the year, it must be topped with maple syrup.
EDITH: Do you have a recipe for French toast breakfast bake?
DeleteMom used to make French toast with leftover sourdough, sliced thin, and would drizzle warm chocolate sauce instead of maple syrup.
DeleteDiana - yes! It appeared in Grilled for Murder, my second Country Store Mystery. Recipe here: https://cinnamonsugarandalittlebitofmurder.com/overnight-french-toast/
DeleteEdith, thank you
DeleteOh. Jenn, hope your Mom heals well and quickly! The Dutch Baby looks delicious,and pretty easy. Yum! I see that in our future as breakfast this week! Happy Sunday to all! (And Edith your baked French toast also sounds delicious!)
ReplyDeleteSome make it in a skillet but my sister makes it in a glass casserole dish: https://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/dutch-baby-pancake/8ead0103-abf7-4e10-aa4d-a6a19f306897
ReplyDeleteLooks delicious! Jenn, hope your mom heals quickly! Food in general is a comfort to me--especially anything that brings back that sense of my mom taking care of us. So, maybe sausage biscuits and gravy for breakfast, or a slice of strawberry/rhubarb pie in early summer, or just about anything chocolate. A jar of nutella and a spoon has been known to do the trick.
ReplyDeleteMmm, biscuits and gravy! That was standard Sunday morning winter food while growing up, while watching Rawhide and waiting for the football game to start.
DeleteMy husband makes excellent biscuits and gravy, although we don’t eat it as much anymore. Ah, for our younger metabolism.
That looks yummy. On a cold day, I'm always down for macaroni and cheese. In the summer... fresh fruit.
ReplyDeleteHope your mom heals up well.
Yes for mac-n-cheese.
DeleteOK a dutch baby. It looks so good – always. Mine, not so. Have made it twice – enough to say never again! Well… looks like that resolution just flew out the window! Wish I had a cast iron pan – maybe that is the issue. I make delicious Yorkshires, so how can a Dutch Baby be so hard.
ReplyDeleteMmm, have a banana boat’s (come Mr Tally Man, tally me bananas – did you need an ear worm today?) worth of bananas that were on the take-them-please rack. Was thinking of a banana cream pie – questioned the other person, and he likes them, but do I have a pie crust in the freezer? Definitely not making a fresh one today…don’t think there are even any graham crumbs…
…I wonder if you could make a Dutch Baby and fill it with Bananas Foster, and then ice cream? Hello Google? Yup, and even with blueberries as well if you like. Mmmm, still wish I had a cast iron pan, but it says you can use a deep cake pan… Maybe I will cook a roast chicken for supper as well – in for a penny, in for a pound…I can see that the geraniums will not get transplanted again today…
See you tomorrow – I will be the lard bucket in a sugar coma…
I forgot to add my comfort food - probably eggs, scrambled, or if you are going all-out a roast beef dinner, rare, with puddings and roast potatoes. I was interested in reading about Flora's biscuits and gravy which I have never tasted and cannot imagine, but yesterday while reading Paige Shelton's Perfect Storm, they were making them in the woods in Alaska for breakfast. Who hikes in with all those groceries even to impress the girl?
ReplyDeleteMargo, brown crumbled sausage. Make a roux with sausage, add milk to make gravy, plus some pepper, a little salt. Take homemade biscuits from the oven, split open, ladle sausage gravy on top. Enjoy! :-)
DeleteThanks Flora, but it still sounds icky! Maybe it is one of those things you need to learn to like. I can't get my head around milk in gravy - just not imaginable. I need a restaurant to try it or maybe I will get to visit you some day.
DeleteYou are welcome any time, Margo!
DeleteMargo, my husband loves biscuits and gravy, but only gets them in a restaurant because they sound “icky” to me, too so I’m not making them! — Pat S
DeleteA Wisconsin friend rhapsodizes about Dutch Babies, but I have never had one. Without fruit it looks a bit naked, doesn't it? I'm used to seeing pictures of them with fruit, and didn't realize they could also be served plain. Learn something new every day.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry about your poor mom, Jenn. Good thing it happened when you were together! Swift healing to her.
Comfort foods: Anything (dark) chocolate, fried chicken, BLTs with fresh garden tomatoes, almost any kind of homemade soup--especially alongside homemade bread, any kind of potato, and any kind of egg. More savory than sweet.
Hope your mom is better soon, Jenn. I've seen recipes for a Dutch Baby before but never made any. The ingredients make me think of popovers which I love but haven't had in years. That needs to change pronto. For comfort food, give me potatoes, mashed or scalloped and I'm good.
ReplyDeleteO my goodness Dutch Babies! When I was in college, we used to go to The Original Pancake House (not to be confused with another chain) for breakfast, where I fell in love with Dutch Babies. The Original Pancake House started in Portland in 1953 as a family business. Now they seem to have locations across the country, but the original Original was the big house on SW 24h and Taylors Ferry Rd. Anyway, their DBs are beautifully golden and puffed and served with powdered sugar and lemon. We decided to try making them, and (I still don't believe we did this) we made one on our sailboat when we were up in Canada sailing. Not as good as the restaurant version, but anything is delicious before or after a day of sailing.
ReplyDeleteGillian, there's an Original Pancake House in our community, but we have never eaten there.
DeleteCooking on a sailboat is definitely an advanced skill!
And by the way, I'll be in Portland in a few weeks, if you want to meet for coffee!
DeleteKaren, I would love that. Email me at gibu7098@aol.com.
DeleteI used to make Dutch apple pancakes in a skillet for the kids. I also made killer waffles with heavy cream. My comfort foods: homemade mac and cheese with crumbled corn bread and three cheese grilled cheese on sour dough bread.
ReplyDeleteI love good french bread! Fortunately we have a great Paris Bakery, but it is a 20 min drive which I am willing to make!
ReplyDeleteFrom Celia: I'm so sorry to hear of your mom's accident Jenn, I'm sending strong healing karma and love to her and you.
ReplyDeleteYour Dutch baby looks perfect, delicious, particularly with the apple topping. The recipe I shared had no sugar in it but did have cornstarch and a hotter oven so I served my DB with bacon and maple syrup. It also wanted the mix whipped up in a blender to make it frothy!
Go to comfort foods - anything with cheese though my cheese consumption has gone way down due to the salt reduction demand from my dr. Actually mentally scanning foods that I eat and love, a cuppa with a good ginger biscuit or three is most comforting or a bowl of NE clam chowder works too.
Mmm, the warm creamy deliciousness of clam chowder.
DeleteJENN: Gorgeous photos! Though I have seen them before, I learned that it is called Dutch Baby. No idea why I never heard of Dutch Baby before. It looks like the wonderful pancakes that I had in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Perhaps that is where Dutch Baby comes from....
ReplyDeleteMy comfort food these days varies from cherry tomatoes to grilled tomatoes.
So sorry to hear about your Mom's foot. Hope that her foot is healing. This has been a stressful time for many of us and Not the good kind of stress. Always nice to have comfort food.
I have never tried this but love anything pancake like so will. My comfort food used to be grilled cheese. Now is seem to be lactose intolerant so only eat this occasionally after a pill.
ReplyDeleteDutch baby is a terrific comfort food, easy to make (essential!) and also has a super cute name. You can't help but feel better when you say, "Dutch baby!"
ReplyDeleteMy ultimate comfort food is Campbell's Bean with Bacon soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. I make almost all of the soups I eat, but I still buy cans of this creamy, ham-flavored goodness. It takes me back to snow afternoons in upstate NY, with my mom bustling in the kitchen and my brother and sister and I playing The Game of Life. Bliss.
Oh, Julia. When I was a child Campbell's Bean with Bacon soup was my absolute favorite. I bet I haven't had it in 55 years. Maybe next time I go to the store...! (Selden)
DeleteSorry your mothers' visit included a trip to the ER. I've been in a boot for six weeks now, ankle. Working from home is the not fun. I was able to go to the office during the pandemic but the office is on the second floor without an elevator, and the boot just isn't what I want to wear while going up and down many stairs to the office. Sending everyone healing thoughts.
ReplyDeleteComfort food seems to change. I cooking lots of chicken thighs right now. Chicken soup, chicken tamales pie, chicken and rice soup yesterday.
So sorry about you mom. I hope she has a speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteComfort food: dark chocolate, cheese especially gouda or sharp cheddar. (I've never had a Dutch Baby.)
I hope your mother recovers quickly! I’d never heard of a Dutch baby until recently and now it’s popping up everywhere! Looks yummy. My mother had (?has?) those silver and blue glass salt and pepper shakers. I hope they are in storage somewhere and that we haven’t lost them!
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of DBs until visiting a friend in Vancouver. They are yummy.
ReplyDeleteI join a few others above who are team savory. For me, it is anything creamy. NE clam chowder, biscuits and milk gravy, grilled cheese, mac-n-cheese, any cheese.
Wow, thank you for the name and recipe for something good and easy. I never eat eggs in the morning, but make a French omelet for dinner every couple of weeks. This sounds terrific for dinner with freshly cooked apples, pears, or peaches! Not sure what mu comfort food is, but fresh veggies are a must at every dinner (and often lunch).
ReplyDeleteLike Gillian, I was introduced to the Dutch Baby at The Original Pancake House. It is the smaller version of the German Pancake on their menu which might be why it’s called a “baby”. They serve it with powdered sugar and lemon slices and obviously you can add syrup if you want. It’s my favorite thing on their menu.
ReplyDeleteMy comfort food (anything sugary and preferably chocolate) has changed as I have aged. Not because I dislike the taste, but rather my body no longer feels the same way about it. But mashed or baked potatoes will do the trick now. (Jenn, I hope your mom heals quickly. You’re a good daughter for helping her through this.) — Pat S
Mmm, potatoes! It’s interesting - every once in a while baked potatoes will have a moment here, but don’t seem to have the enduring popularity in restaurants of jacket potatoes in the UK.
DeleteOh, that looks yummy! Comfort food for me - grilled cheese or creamed tuna on toast.
ReplyDeleteComfort food for me is anything with cheesey goodness. Grilled cheese sandwich, cheese enchilada, mac and cheese, cheese and crackers. Yum.
ReplyDeleteJenn, great job on the photos! I have never made a Dutch baby, or eaten one! The batter made me think of Yorkshire puddings, though, which I love. I used to make French toast, also whole wheat pancakes and waffles, but Rick is now such a nightowl that he is never up for breakfast so I don't bother.
ReplyDeleteYou can put me in savory camp. My go-to comfort food is cheese toast made with a good sharp cheddar, with maybe a clementine or crisp apple alongside.
Jenn, best recovery wishes for your mother, and thanks for the reminder to make Dutch Baby soon. Ordinary pancakes are one of my comfort foods, and I am with the great cheese- any recipe! - crowd. But my always there, reach into the pantry, no thinking needed, comfort food is peanut butter. Kind of embarassing at my age but there it is.
ReplyDeleteJenn, thank you for reminding me of this Dutch pancake, which my mother used to make as a simple dessert when I was a child, and I haven't thought about it for years. She put lemon juice on it instead of apples, but with the powdered sugar, it wasn't sour. The whole family loved it!
ReplyDeletePS Forgot to add: And good pie. That will cure a lot! (But harder than peanut butter to have around at all times!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely , best get well wishes to your mom. And THIS LOOKS SO GOOD!! I agree with Debs, Dutch babies do look like first cousin to Yorkshire pudding. And popovers. Which are always trickier than they sound. I think the room temperature-ness of the eggs is an absolute must. Thanks Jenn. I'm definitely going to make a Dutch Baby. Comfort food? More votes here for baked stuffed potatoes. And just about any kind of barbecue. And there's a fantastic Chinese restaurant near me that makes the most fabulous hot and sour soup... the ultimate in comfort.
ReplyDeleteMeant to type grilled Vegan Cheese sandwich, not grilled tomatoes. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteI call them popovers and they’ve always been my go-to comfort food. I was thinking about making them this week but alas no eggs at my store again. That’s okay, I don’t really need them but when I can get eggs again I will be making them!
ReplyDeleteGood wishes for your Mom’s healing.
ReplyDeleteWill have to make the Dutch Baby - looks and sounds amazing.
Comfort food- cherry cobbler or grilled cheese sandwiches, , green chile cheese enchiladas or chile rellenos. (Heather S)
Jenn: Sorry I’m so late! Spent the day moving Hooligans and I am done done done. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteI hope your mother heals quickly. My maternal grandfather emigrated from Holland but never introduced me to Dutch Pancakes. I got the recipe from an old San Francisco Junior League cookbook. I have been making them for over 50 years and love them still.
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