This past week I had the week off school. At the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, there is a mini semester in January where you take 1 course every day for 3 weeks. Professors from all over the world come to teach a variety of courses. First year students, such as myself,  have a mandatory course: Dispute Resolution and Professional Responsibility.

Anyway, during my week off I had a lot of time on my hands. So I enjoyed it by cooking and baking all sorts of treasures. Some never to be made again, others to improve and several that made it in my good books. There are too many recount all in one post, so I will add them with time. I don’t want anyone, including myself, to overdose on some wonderful recipes.

My first day off started with Banana Walnut Pancakes — taken from www.joythebaker.com

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Let me put the recipe down before I forget.

1/2 tbsp butter
1 finely chopped onion
1 garlic clove
1 tsp red hot pepper flakes
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 can of crushed tomatoes
water (to thin it out a little)
1 1/2 tsp oregano
1 1/2 tsp basil

Melt the butter in a saucepan. After it seems to finishing foaming up, add the chopped onion, garlic, red pepper flakes and salt. Saute the mixture for 5-6 minutes.  Add the crushed tomatoes along with some water to thin it out ( put about 1/2 – 1 cup water). Add the other spices (basil and oregano). Let it simmer on low for a few minutes. Voila! If you want it thinner, add water.

1 cup spinach (thawed from frozen with the water squeezed out)
1/4 cup plain yogurt
1/4 cup chopped onion (I used white, but red can work too)
1/4 cup chickpea flour (Besan)
1/2 tsp Garam Masala
1/2 tsp Corriander leaves
1/2 tsp salt

Mix all ingredients.
Heat some oil in a frying pan. Form small bunches of the mixture and place as many of them as you can in the pan (see image above). Cook them until they are golden brown on either side.

My rating: 9/10 — (I would double the recipe next time. There was not enough spinach’y goodness!)

1/2 of 2/3 cup Milk
1 egg
1 Tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
less than 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 pieces of bread

Mix all the ingredients together (except for the bread). Soak the bread in the mixture. On medium heat, add butter or oil to a frying pan. Then add the soaked bread to the pan. Brown it on both sides.

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Rach and I competed for the best pizza. She wanted to know how good a pizza this indian restaurant we had went to, could have tasted. I just like making dough, however she used a machine to do it, it makes me sad. But the dough came out of the bread maker so easy it makes me rethink life.

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