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With the rhythms of the Moreira Project and Closet Snare live at Assembly still echoing fondly in my head from last night, I woke up this morning and felt an intense desire for two things:  serious hot chocolate (see Chocolate Concoction for Churros) and flapjacks.  As flapjacks are synonymous with the domestic goddess’s image, I paged through Nigella’s guide and found a flippen fantastic flapjack recipe.  It takes 5 minutes to mix and 5 to cook. Thus making it the ultimate pick-up, no matter what your state of being is at the moment…

For about 12 fat flapjacks:

Two cups (500ml) flour

1 Tablespoon (15ml) bicarbonate of soda

1 Teaspoon (5ml) of sugar

A pinch of salt

1 1/2 cups (325ml) milk

30g Butter

2 eggs

To serve, your choice of what you feel like, here are a few suggestions:

Honey/syrup

Cream/full cream bulgarian yoghurt

Bacon/parma ham

Cheese of sorts

Banana/fig/raspberries/strawberries/peaches/blueberries

To start:

Step 1: Put on some music (the CD that you bought last night at the concert…).

Step 2: Melt the butter. Measure all the ingredients into a blender.  Whiz until all the ingredients are incorporated.

Step 3: Get a medium sized pan out (non stick if you have).  Spray with non-stick baking spray or alternatively melt a teaspoon butter, but the pan must be on a medium to low heat  (don’t turn the temperature too high, otherwise you’ll have nicely blackened flapjacks instead of beautiful golden ones).

Step 4: With your hand, feel just above the surface of the pan if it is heated.  Spoon a big dessertspoon full of the mixture into the pan, let it ooze into its freeform and continue until you have three.  When you see bubbles slowly emerging on the surface of the flapjacks, and the bottom becoming slightly loose from the pan, flip each one over sperately with an egg lifter.  The surface should be remeniniscent of a golden caramelised colour.  Continue for about 30 seconds on that side.  When finished, wrap in a bowl with a clean tea towel.  Continue until the batter is finished.  Don’t hesitate to try some with butter and syrup before you actually sit down and eat… life is too short and you never know what could happen with it in the meantime, especially with siblings/lovers floating around with a hungry look on their faces …

On the photo:

A dincum stack of friday-night-recovery flapjacks for breakfast with:

Bottom: fresh figs

Middle: banana

Top: crispy fried bacon

All over: full cream bulgarian yog

hurt and honey

Where: eaten in bed

*This recipe has been loosely adapted from Nigella Lawson’s How to be a domestic goddess, Chatto and Windus.