Cornmeal pancakes

 Trying something new, but since there are a lot of these recipes out there I want to get it down this morning before I forget. I made something at one point that was amazing and was told to make sure i make it the same way again and it was so simple I was sure not to forget...

and I forgot. of course. second time wasn't the same... close but not the same...

So here it is from: https://cookfasteatwell.com/cornmeal-pancakes-recipe/

Fluffy Cornmeal Pancakes

Fluffy, light, and easy-to-make, Cornmeal Pancakes are a tasty twist on classic pancakes. | One Bowl Recipe. No buttermilk. No need to whip egg whites!

 Prep Time 10 minutes
 Cook Time 20 minutes
 Total Time 30 minutes

 Servings 4 people

Ingredients
1 cup finely ground cornmeal (5 ounces cornmeal; 142 grams)
1 cup all-purpose flour (4 ½ ounces; 127 grams)
3 tablespoons granulated sugar (1 ⅓ ounces 38 grams)
1 tablespoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 large eggs (out of shell: about 4 ounces; 113 grams)
1 cup milk (8 ounces; 226 grams)
¼ cup vegetable oil
Nonstick cooking spray or vegetable oil for greasing the griddle

For Serving

Butter
Maple syrup

Instructions

Make the Batter. Whisk cornmeal, flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt together in a medium mixing bowl. Add the eggs, milk, and vegetable oil. Whisk until smooth.\

Heat the Griddle. Lightly oil a nonstick griddle. Heat griddle over medium-high heat. P

Cook the Pancakes. Pour batter, approximately ¼ cup, onto griddle. Batter should sizzle when it hits the pan. Cook for approximately 3 minutes. Flip pancakes when bubbles appear all over the surface of the pancake and begin to pop. The pancake should begin to look almost dry. Flip and cook another 1 to 1 ½ minutes.

Serve. Serve with butter and syrup, if desired.

Keep Pancakes Warm: To keep warm, preheat oven to 200 degrees F. Place cooked pancakes on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Major substitutions:

Butter instead of oil (melted in pan to cook em in then mixed in at last)
Added vanilla
added flaxmeal

Soaked the cornmeal in the milk overnight.

Doubled the recipe and used 5 med eggs

Also unlike other pancakes I make, I am going to cook them all up instead of save batter for cooking tomorrow. These are pretty fluffy and if put back in fridge I think the baking powder will lose the ability to make em fluffy and then that wouldn't be good.

These are pretty fluffy, and yeah, I put the sugar in. And no, I didn't use whole wheat flour, the whole grain corn felt like enough w/o using whole wheat.

Even threw a label on the post!

Raced on saturday, (no results online yet), def was NOT in it head wise. But felt good with the technical stuff, a few of the higher speed off camber turns that had marginal grip I didn't take fast enough, was too conservative in those spots and that's not something you can get away with racing anywhere, esp CX. But the rest? Yeah, not a big deal, pretty smooth and no I can't quite turn as well as the little fast skinny people, and no I can't pedal all that well lately, but maybe I'm getting better? Had headache for part of the day. It seems kind of consistent tho, I feel like I have had a secondary symptom from the vax about a week after the shot, first initial wave of symptoms w/in 24-48 hrs then later something different but related. I also didn't warm up well enough (at all?) it was cold, parking was far away, got there almost an hour after I had planned just for the point of getting more than one lap in and having a longer pulsed warmup. It is what it is and it was fun? mostly. Elements of fun and good to be racing people (getting beat mostly) at least only LL came through me from the Women's field, no SM this time. Maybe not an SM course? Not sure how the laps felt shorter than Eco-cross when the course felt way more spread out. Also pre-ride hit the rim on the rear on ever bump, not enough pressure, the front a few times even. Miss not having the huge air-volume. Maybe need to see about getting some of those 38 or 40? X-Bites or other knobby mid grip Schwalbes. The MTB might have been faster in some spots but def not in others. Toss up on that course. A monster-cross bike like Cathy had would have been perfect, with gears. I think a rigid MTB with a tallish gear (for MTB 2:1) and 2-2.3s super light MTB tires would have been the best.

Did not ride yesterday, took a full on rest day, did some grocery shopping, cleaning, cooking, final turkey prepping, football watching, kid to the train taking.

Pancakes are all cooked up. Slept kind of poorly. Couldn't fall asleep at first because I realized it was the end of Open Enrollment today and I haven't looked at it yet, (meant to this week but totally forgot) that moment of wondering if it ended at midnight last night or today at some point and deciding that since today was the last day meant today...  then woke up both between dreams and being extra hydrated and couldn't fall back asleep and then early to make pancakes.

There's a huge undercurrent of stress with what's going on, the gallery prep (need a few more images it seems and to select the images in each sequence) what bikes to take to Ice Weasels, Win10 upgrades this week at work on two major systems (changing hundreds of users over and creating new accounts) hiring maybe, holiday travel plans, paying for college, other kid's college search and athlete prep level stuff including selection camp anxiety...oh and that class I'm teaching in the spring. I did finally order that crazy expensive seatpost, AND went shopping on Black Friday in Seekonk, less traffic/people than a normal Saturday shopping. Bought the inexpensive 300# olympic weight set that was on sale. Not fancy, but functional, will help the crew kid and I'm def planning on adding deadlifts to the routine, somewhere. Yes, starting really light, as much as I'd love to just go right to the heavy stuff, i need to work on that lower back strength carefully. But the knee is slowly EVER so slowly getting better.

And now I have more shit to do and pancakes to eat and lunch to pack and fuck so much to do and what am I doing? drinking coffee and typing. Better than drinking coffee and scrolling all the late night social media. Create content first, then consume, or something. 

Nothing like hiding a mini race report/blog post after a recipe... gonna through a jump break under the recipe just for visual sake and for the fun of it.

Happy Monday Motherfuckers

Amor Fati

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