November 9, 2006

• Stupid Culinary Adventures!

  A couple of years ago I watched "Endurance" a biographical film about the Ethiopian distance runner, Gold-medal winning Olympian,  and world record holder Haile Gebrselassie.  Since distance running is an interest of mine, it was fascinating to get an insight into the life and background of such an incredible athlete.

  And since food is also an interest of mine, it was intriguing to see Haile's mother portrayed fixing some weird red pancake-bread thing in a giant frying pan for her family.  This stuff was evidently a staple of Haile's diet growing up, so obviously eating it would make me a world-class athlete as well.

  After some internet research, I discovered that this flat bread is known as "injera" and it is made from a highly nutritious grain called "teff".   Unfortunately, genuine injera bread takes time and skill to prepare, neither of which I have in abundance.

  Still, I had to have some teff flour for myself, and a few days after ordering the substance I combined pumpkin and teff pancake recipes to make (can you guess?)...pumpkin-teff pancakes!

  They are dense and different than regular pancakes but tasty in their own way.  Immediately after eating them I went out and put together three point one-o-seven 4-minute miles on the track to break the world record at 5 K.  Unfortunately, there were no witnesses.  But I did document the pancake making:

  
  
  

  That's one teff pancake!

  (Made by the world's teffest runner and newly undocumented world record holder at 5K, Stupidocles)

  
  

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