IT'S ALIVE! (sourdough pancakes)

I am a terrible, busy person and I neglected to feed my starter for about a month...so when I found the starter at the back of my refrigerator I thought it was a goner for sure. Despite its terrible condition, I figured the least I could do is try to revive it. So I fed it. And let it sit out..and then fed it again. AND IT LIVED! so I made pancakes. The Recipe I want to share with you is form Nancy Silverton's cookbook "Breads from the LaBrea Bakery" which you should all look into if you like to bake bread (even if you don't like baking, it's still captivating if you just want to read it). The woman knows what she's talking about. These pancakes are a bit more savory than normal pancakes (who needs all that sweet sticky stuff at breakfast anyway) and I topped mine with sauteed apples.

here is what you need:

2 cups of activated sourdough starter
2 tablespoons of maple syrup (use the real stuff)
3 tablespoons of oil (Nancy wanted me to use sunflour oil, but I used olive.)
2 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder

(since I hadn't fed my starter for so long it was SUPER sour...so to mellow it out a little I added two small handfuls of wheat flour and a little water to maintain the correct consistency)

what you should do:

put your starter, eggs, maple syrup, and oil in a bowl and whisk until combined. I think I started with the eggs and starter and beat them together (it took some effort) and went from there. Once everything looks good, sift in the salt, baking powder, soda and additional flour and whisk until incorporated. The batter (according to Nancy) should be thicker than heavy cream and feel elastic.

for the apples: heat a tablespoon of olive oil and add your thinly sliced apples. To this I added caraway, ground cloves, nutmeg (just a little) and some cardamom and stirred frequently until cooked. Unfortunately I didn't really measure any of the spices before I put them in...so if you choose to make these, just go with what tastes good to you (which may mean not adding caraway or cardamom, but that is your call).