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Bob Phillips

The title of this blog was inspired by one of my Spanish professor's at Miami University of Ohio, Dr. Robert Phillips, who died in the e...

Monday, February 10, 2020

Two-ingredient cream cheese pancakes (aka "scrambled crepes")

James usually makes us waffles on the weekend, but this Saturday we decided that our big project would be cleaning up our yard after a wind storm blew a tree onto our backyard shed. A friend had posted this recipe on Facebook last week and since we had the two ingredients necessary (cream cheese and eggs) to make these pancakes I told James I would make this super-simple breakfast instead. I used about twice as much cream cheese than called for (4 ounces), but stuck with the same number of eggs (2). It still didn't really make much batter. I put the two ingredients into the blender and mixed them well, then poured the batter directly into my hot skillet. I attempted to make two pancakes to start, which only meant that I ended up with two "first pancakes". They looked more like scrambled eggs than pancakes. I made two more that wound up a bit more pancake shaped, and then that was it for the batter. I decided not to take pictures of this less-than-appetizing looking meal. If you click the link above you'll see what they were supposed to look like, but mine did not turn out in the crepe-like manner depicted at all. We each ate one "first pancake" and one "second pancake" topped with jam and powdered sugar. They weren't bad, but not worth making again. In the future I will either eat scrambled eggs or pancakes.