Pancakes

Basically it is a variant of what nigella does with her buttermilk banana pancake.
That recipe can found here .
But since in my house pancake is standard breakfast for my 3 year old ... at least 4 times a week, I had to make it healthier and kid friendlier.
What I do is replace as much flour as possible with oatmeal powder. You can just dry roast standard breakfast oatmeal and then use the mixer to grind it into a powder.
So right now what I do is, take around 3 cups of oatmeal, dry roast it, grind it.
Mix one cup of flour with it ( I have tried to do away with flour altogether, but the result is more moist, heavy and not good looking pancakes ... now kids are the harshest food critic, if the food does not have the exact amount good looks or taste as they expect ... well best of luck with that situation).
Now I have 4 cups of pancake mix, I mix around about 3 small teaspoon of baking power and around one or slightly less teaspoon of edible soda (I use eno), I make this mixture once a week and store.
So in morning when her highness orders pancake, I just take one cup of this mixture, and perishable items, like egg, buttermilk etc.
Standard recipe is, blend all the items below.
1. one cup of flour mixture
2. one egg
3. enough buttermilk to make your favorite styled pancake, you can go by nigellas prescribed amount which will give you spongy thick pancake, I add a little more to get thinner crispier version, as my daughter prefers that, they are little difficult to make, as the thick ones can be flipped easily, no such luck with thinner ones, they can become as fussy as crepes or patisapta.
Don't have buttermilk just add one spoon vinegar in a cup of milk and wait for 5 Min's.
4. one teaspoon of sugar.
5. one tablespoon of melted butter.
6. Add some fruit or variant for flavor, you can add one banana, or apple (with cinnamon power, its heavenly), chocolate chips. Or nothing, it tastes just as good.

As for cooking, heat a tawa, pour the batter with a ladle, flip, butter up (or put in cream), and syrup ... Enjoy!

My first Cheesecake

Made my first cheese cake today!
The look is perfect ... Am very proud.
Ingredients :
Base :
1. 200 gms digestive biscuit
2. ~70gms butter
3. Sugar if you want it sweeter than digestive
Core:
1. Two Britannia cream cheese packet
2. 200ml fresh cream
3. 3 eggs
4. 3/4 cup of powdered sugar
5. Chocolate cubes ... darker the better. I used the amul dark chocolate newly launched.

Process:
1. Preheat the oven 140C
2. Put digestives in a zip pouch and go at it with a hammer ... use all the frustrations you have ... you will get a nicely crushed base soon enough. This portion can be done in a blender. But I find this way therapeutic
3. Melt the butter, mix with biscuit crash.
4. Put in some sugar if you want, I didn't.
5. Line and grease a cake tin, preferably the detachable base once. Important to grease it well and line later.
6. spread in the biscuit butter mash, and press it down.
7. Put in the oven for 10 minutes, take it out, cool it down.
8. Now for the topping. put the cream cheese in a bowl and beat it to make it smooth, I use electric beater, and is done in about 1 minute.
9. Put in the cream, repeat beating.
10. Put in the eggs ... beating.
11. Sugar ... beating.
12. 2 tablespoon of water ... beating
13. Divide the topping in two halves, now all the recipe in net suggests 2 EQUAL halves but I go for about 1/4 and 3/4.
13. Melt the chocolate (recipe suggests double boiler, I just put in 2 tablespoon of water in the chocolate and put the saucepan on stove for couple of minutes while vigorously beating it content).
14. Mix the 1/4 part in the chocolate.
15. Pour half the white topping on cake, then almost all the chocolate topping, and then all the white, and then scrap the rest of the chocolate topping. Then with a knife mix the colors ... as much or little as you wish.
16.Stick it in the 140C oven for 40-50 Min's. You have to keep checking till the base becomes almost set but still a little wobbly in the middle.
13. Cool it down first and then keep it in the fridge for 1-4 hrs ... voila