Popover!

Until a few weeks ago, I’d never made a popover. I’d certainly eaten them, and of course I’d read and heard about making them – complete with horror stories about how hard it was to get popovers to “pop,” but I’d never made them. Then I saw a recipe for them: 1 egg, 1/2 cup of milk, 1/2 cup of flour, and a 1/2 teaspoon of salt, pour it into a popover pan and cook at 450 till done. How simple is that? Except … I didn’t have a popover pan. So after a quick search online and some back and forth Twittering, I tried my popover recipe in a couple of small ramekins. Success .. until I tried to get the popovers out of the ramekins. The flavor was good, but the “pop” had left the building. Still, I was feeling very positive about making popovers and determined to try again soon.

Then a few days ago I was wandering through Target and they had popover pans on sale for $6. Obviously it was a sign from the universe that I needed to make popovers again.

And I did.

I doubled the recipe which made 6 perfect popovers. (Although I slightly under filled the middle row and they didn’t “pop” quite as high.)

Next up … I’m going to try for mini-popovers from my muffin tin and maybe with some blue cheese added. Because doesn’t blue cheese make anything taste better?