Salad was pretty simple--mixed greens, sauteed onions, seared and lightly seasoned the scallops. And a reduced red wine, with a bit of sugar, salt, vinegar and oil. I really love sweet potato pancakes though..or more like potato latkas.. 2 grated sweet potatos, 2 grated new potatos, 1-2 grated onions, and preferrably some chopped green onions, 2 eggs, a few heaping spoons of flour, salt, garlic powder, pepper, all well mixed and smashed together and tehn just press into patties and sear in teh skillet like pancakes. I had a few leftover potato cakes for on the plane.And a marbled chocolate cake for dessert. :)
Also a pretty easy do--first in one bowl beating 2 eggs, and then beating in a brick of low-fat cream cheese and some sugar, and a heaping spoon or two of flour (the white-layer). then in another bowl beating till fluffy 4 full eggs in one bowl, add maybe a cup of sugar, pinch of salt, then mix in a bowl of 150g melted dark chocolate stirred with 1/3 c oil, and more cocoa powder if you want it more intensely chocolatey, and finally briefly stirring in ~1-1/4 c flour with 1.5 tsp baking powder into it, and pouring into a lined pan. Then from a medium altitude pouring in the white batter and giving it a brief swirl mixes it all through the chocolate layer in waves. Bake just till the very center comes out clean wiht a toothpick test. It's best when still moist and not even slightly overbaked..otherwise the edges start to dry out a bit too much wiht overcooking.. maybe I'd get a better overall moistness from edge to center if I used 2 smaller pans and didn't need to cook the one wide cake for like 50-65 min. I'll try that next time :)Also I have to say in terms of my preferences, I really like the denser white cream-cheesy layer running through it, and I'd probably next time 1.5x or 2x that volume of the white batter.. mmmm probably would look prettier, too! as would a dark raspberry swirl to finish! oooooo
... I want to go bake something now....
