Carol replied to Jill:
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:She dropped a potato pancake on the stove, not a bird onto the floor.
And who hasn't done that once in a while? <G>
<jumping up and down and waving arms> Me! Me! I've never done that!
I've never done that either, but I did something worse: I was making some
kind of Indian bean pancakes. I don't remember exactly what recipe I was
following, but it runs something like this:
Soak black-eyed peas in water until the skins loosen. Remove the skins by
rubbing them in a towel. Put the skinned legumes into a food processor with
cilantro, chile/garlic paste, and some other seasonings. Purée. Heat oil in
a pan, spoon some of the mixture into the middle of the pan pan, and use the
spoon in a spiraling-out motion to shape the mixture into a pancake. Cook
until underside is crusty, flip, and cook until second side is crusty. Serve
with a yogurt-based relish.
See that word "flip" in there? It looks SO innocuous, doesn't it? I'd made
the recipe a dozen times before, and I always flipped the pancakes with the
time-honored deft wrist motion which sends the pancake skyward and gently
rotating so that it lands upside-down back in the pan.
On this occasion, I did the same thing, but what I'd failed to take into
account was the fact that I'd put a little too much oil in the pan. When the
pancake went skyward, about a teaspoon of hot oil went handleward. I had the
scars on the back of my thumb for years.
Bob
