Batter Blaster
Posted by Allison Eckel at 11/30/2008 10:40 AM 
Categories: Working Moms,quick meals,Batter Blaster,breakfast,new foods,holiday,Thanksgiving
Categories: Working Moms,quick meals,Batter Blaster,breakfast,new foods,holiday,Thanksgiving
I hope you all had a restful Thanksgiving. We were able to spend time with family in Amish farm country. We enjoyed all of the usual holiday dishes: a perfectly juicy turkey, mashed potatoes, yams with brown sugar, pineapple casserole, cranberry orange relish, and more. Everything was perfect. But, for all of its perfection, Thanksgiving dinner does not win my esteem as Most Valuable Food Contribution of the holiday. That award goes to the Batter Blaster.
While buying my turkey day ingredients, I found a new product in the dairy case. Called the Batter Blaster, it is pre-made batter for pancakes or waffles, in a Ready-Whip-style can. The instructions are so simple: point, blast, and cook (the Web site even has a video demo)! Plus, it's certified organic!!
This stuff changes breakfast in our house. We love pancakes, but making them is a huge mess. I am not a delicate cook. So, I avoid making them and instead relegate pancakes to the "special morning" menu -- those days when we have no pressing appointments and can take a couple of hours for cooking, eating, and clean-up.
Well, thanks to this new product, we can have pancakes anytime. And no, I'm not getting a kick-back for that endorsement... I'm just that excited. The cynic in me thinks that there must be a downside... like the product is toxic or something. Until that shoe drops, we'll be eating pancakes.
Well, I looked this up to see where you can purchase. It is carried by all Shop Rite stores, Wegman's in Mt Laurel and at Whole Foods. But not in the Acme near my house. That means a special trip. Darn.
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Since special grocery trips mean a higher carbon expense, I propose a sort-of co-op idea. I shop at the store that carries the Batter Blaster, while my friend (my mom, in this case) shops in the store that carries one of the only veggies my kids will eat (Calbee baked Snapea Crisps in caeser flavor). We could each make special trips for these items, or we could buy extra and exchange when we see each other. Since we see each other once a week, the exchange will be convenient. When we move out of winter and the local farms start producing again, we plan to go together to buy a share of a farm's produce. I don't see why we couldn't use similar logic for those processed goodies that not every store offers. Mmmm.... processed goodies....
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