We still make them, all of us separately. I make a GP at least once a month, it's a good and easy breakfast and turning on the oven heats up my apartment/duplex. My favorite topping is still the powdered sugar-lemon juice bit but they are good with raspberry jam as well, or maple syrup.
However, yesterday I wanted breakfast and had no lemons and was sick of sugar anyway, having baked dozens of cookies in the past several days. I wanted GP but savory. So I took the basic recipe for one person( 2 eggs, half cup flour, half cup milk whirled up in the blender) and added salt and pepper and just before pouring into the frying pan (with melted butter and a little bacon grease) I added some grated cheese, a handful of cilantro, a dash of cumin and a shake of red pepper flakes and a couple of chopped green onions. I didn't blend them up too much, just enough to get them mixed well with the eggs stuff. Into the pan, 20 minutes later it was ready. I splashed some salsa over the top and it was delicious! Savory, fluffy, like a giant popover, filling and cheap. What more can you ask?
Dutch Baby, Giant Pancake, whatever you call it, make one now. Breakfast, lunch or even dinner. I can see adding some pesto to it, parmesan cheese, red pepper flakes. Or some romesco sauce. Or just salt, pepper, parsley and then topping it with a bit of sour cream and some smoked salmon when it comes out of the oven. Possibilities abound. Do it.
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