{"id":13332,"date":"2013-08-06T09:49:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T15:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=13332"},"modified":"2013-08-06T17:07:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T23:07:03","slug":"scallion-pancakes-morning-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2013\/08\/scallion-pancakes-morning-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Scallion pancakes, morning walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, I made these Chinese Scallion Pancakes<\/a> for the first time. I made 1\/2 the recipe to try it out. Then I made another 1\/2 recipe to see how they kept – frozen and refrigerated.<\/p>\n

This morning I made a double recipe and most of them made it into the freezer!<\/p>\n

I woke up, rested, ready to go…at 4:45 a.m. <\/p>\n

Bear and I had a quick down the driveway walk in the dark, then back inside and I started a pot of beans, the coffee, put my Dutch Oven in the oven to heat for crusty bread and then mixed and kneaded the dough for the pancakes. <\/p>\n

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The simple flour and water mix gets kneaded until smooth and then rests for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

The genius of this recipe – in my opinion! – is that the scallions, some salt and olive oil are brushed on the rolled out pancake. Then you roll the circle up like a cigar…roll it around itself like a snail, squash it and roll it into a circle once more which means that the onions and seasoning are inside the pancake.<\/p>\n

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I’m thinking of many different flavor combos that would be scrumptious using this same technique…herbs like chives or basil or oregano, some garlic and cumin. Maybe a slightly cheese-y version with some parmesan and smoked paprika.<\/p>\n

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The pancakes get lightly fried in a bit more olive oil so end up a little crispy, a littly chewy and full of flavor. The Woks of Life<\/a> post also includes a garlic dipping sauce. And by the way, the The Woks of Life blog<\/a> is not only a lot of fun, with some great recipes but they (it is the entire family writing the blog!) include some pages de-mystifying ingredients and utensils used in their Chinese recipes.<\/p>\n

I’ve eaten the pancakes as snacks with the dipping sauce, as a “bread” with a Chinese chicken salad, and this morning with some goat cheese, beans and a drizzle of the dipping sauce. I like them!<\/p>\n

As I was working in the kitchen, the sky lightened to the East. I love watching the range of colors as the sun works its way over the mountains of the Continental Divide. <\/p>\n

One moment it was a deep blue and the next I was surprised to see fog. The temperature at just before 5 a.m. was 55, but it dropped to 49 as the sun rose – close enough to the morning dewpoint to make fog.<\/p>\n

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Bear and I took our full morning walk in the misty woods.<\/p>\n

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The yellow jackets had been buzzing the kitchen windows earlier, but as the fog dropped down, they apparently went back to their nests and we walked in foggy quiet.<\/p>\n

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Headed back toward the house, the sun found its way though the mist, hitting the house like a spotlight.<\/p>\n

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Scallion pancakes, morning walk: Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday, I made these Chinese Scallion Pancakes for the first time. I made 1\/2 the recipe to try it out. Then I made another 1\/2 recipe to see how they kept – frozen and refrigerated. This morning I made a double recipe and most of them made it into the freezer! I woke up, rested, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-front-porch-musings","category-me-and-the-house"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13332"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13338,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332\/revisions\/13338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}