The featured cookbook right now is Ancient Grains for Modern Meals, which I bought a few months ago. I haven't made too much from this book, but I flagged a few to try over the next few weeks while it's being featured.
Today I decided on the Cornmeal Pancakes with Warm Cherry Sauce. Why? I wanted breakfast, and I had a bag of cherries in the fridge that were hanging on by a thread and I didn't want them to go to waste. Plus I love things with cornmeal. I had a great cornbread french toast once at the place we sometimes go to brunch on the weekends - I'll have to remember to recreate that sometime. So I decided to make the cornmeal pancakes.
They really came out great. I enjoyed them as well as the warm cherry sauce. I halved each cherry to remove the pit (with all my kitchen gadgets, I surprisingly do not own a cherry pitter) and cooked them with honey, orange zest, and cloves to make a delicious sauce, thickened with a bit of cornstarch. I multiplied the recipe by 1.5 because I had 3 cups of cherries instead of 2 to use. I have about 2 cups left that we'll have to find another use for (cherry yogurt maybe?) but I'm not too worried about that.
I didn't have any buttermilk, so I used yogurt thinned out a bit in its place. I think it worked out just fine - I didn't notice any significant difference, but I would also like to try it as written. I would also love to try the cornmeal pancakes with blueberries. In fact, I could see making a similar kind of sauce with blueberries... maybe with some cinnamon instead of cloves and lemon instead of orange zest... yum!
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