Mini German Pancakes With Fillings

Mini German Pancake muffins with fillings...

I guess this cold weather, the coldest February that many of us can remember, is going to stick around for another week or so.  So perhaps it is time to get that oven going?  Time to try some pancake, muffin, or waffle recipes that you may have saved but never made.. but that look good!

Mini German filled pancakes from realmomkitchen.com .

Mini German pancakes in muffin tins with fillings.. Don't these look delicious?  And the recipe is easy as well! From realmomkitchen.com, adapted by Bling.

Mini German filled pancake muffins

• Depending on the size of your muffin tin, this recipe yields 12-18 muffins.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup milk
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup (all-purpose) flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/4 cup butter, melted.  (Must use butter, not margarine)

Step by step:

Daydreaming on the Old Porch Swing (Updated for Spring 2018)

Dreaming of Swinging on an Old Porch Swing... Counting the Days until Spring (or Summer)... 

From Hayneedle.com

Actually this is a new porch swing from Hayneedle.com.  (I hadn't seen this site before, but they have many porch swings in many styles and colors to choose from.. and this one is still available, in Spring 2018!)  But I can't help but think that "Spring really is coming!" when I see a porch swing, old or new.

Inside Out Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I love cheese.  I really do.

Here's a grilled cheese sandwich that is "Cheesier than Karaoke Night on the Jersey Shore."

I don't eat that many grilled cheese sandwiches, but this grilled cheese hack-- an Inside-Out Grilled Cheese Sandwich sounds SO good!  I think the better description is "decadent".  I may try one! We have a lot of cheese hanging about right now; this may be a way to use some of it.

This Inside-out Grilled Cheese sandwich can be found at the video blog of "Chef John" at Foodwishes.blogspot.com , a cooking site with a cooking guru that apparently everybody knows except for me...   until now.

Let's Get Down to Cooking:  

The cheese is cooked on the inside in a fairly traditional way, but then the cheese is cooked on the outside.   SHREDDED cheese.  Watch the video to see the whole thing.  

Chef John insists on REAL butter (I get that) in the pain..