is the best choice for breakfast. Unless, of course, you want sparkling clean walls. In which case, you should definitely give in to your 4-year-old's pleas for his MOST favorite breakfast, German pancakes. For those who don't make these on a weekly basis, you mix eggs, flour and milk in your blender, pour the mixture into a hot, butter-filled baking dish, bake til puffy, and... voila.
That is, of course, unless you want those newly scrubbed walls.
In which case, you should pour milk, flour, and eggs into your blender, start 'er up and notice that some of the flour is sticking to the sides of the blender. At this point you should not, I repeat, NOT (this is important if you want those freshly clean walls) turn off the blender. Simply take off the lid of the still blending blender, and ever so gently scrape the insides until your rubber scraper gets instantly sucked into the blade, sending an Old-Faithful-like geyser of egg, flour and milk straight into the air. If you are lucky enough to have vaulted ceilings in your kitchen, and if your trajection was accurately timed, and if the scraper gets sufficiently wedged into an adequately spinning blade, you'll now notice that you've got splattered and quickly hardening egg stuck 12 feet high, all over the floor and pretty much everywhere else in between, including your own hair and clothes as well as those of your innocent children sitting at the bar waiting for German pancakes.
So, now you get to clean those walls.
Isn't it refreshing to have a newly scrubbed kitchen?
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i have done something similar to that, but not as bad. the best was just last saturday when i was making a chocolate layer dessert and while mixing the cream cheese center, having powdered sugar explode out of the kitchenaid, the like of which i have never seen. and we had cleaned the house that day. i am glad you have a very clean kitchen now.
We LOVE German pancakes too. I've been experimenting with different layering techniques to avoid the flour glob problem, but haven't found a solution. My current layer strategy is eggs first (check for shells before continuing), then flour (we used our ground whole wheat because we are trying to rotate the food storage), and then using same measuring cup add milk. I can't guarantee no flour globs, but I only use one measuring cup and no wet gets into the dry flour.
I like to have clean walls on my own terms. Unfortunately, the builder here painted all of my walls in flat paint and cleaning them is impossible. But you can just paint over the dirt.
lolololololo, oh Ade, I'm sorry, that was hysterical!
Problem solved. No eggs or flower in our house. So, what's my excuse for dirty walls?
How funny - that sounds like something I would do myself! I'll have to remember NOT to do that :)!! At least you have cleans walls, right??
Adri! I loved your story! Definately my comic relief for the day! Thanks for sharing! The part that made me laugh out loud was the thought of your two precious kids watching innocently from the sidelines and suddenly covered head to toe in their would-be breakfast!
What?!? No pictures?? C'mon Adri!!
I was cringing the whole time I read the story, and sure enough, it ended just how I thought it might. I'm so sorry! (But it was funny!!)
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