Day 11: IHopped

Today’s culinary excursion was into Pancake Land!!  I think i can probably count on one hand the number of times i’ve ever made pancakes -even fewer times when i’ve made them without charring them into extinction!!  But, I figured what the heck – breakfast options are starting to get a little constrained now, given the lack of bread products and dwindling supply of cereals, so they should be easy enough to do while listening to a market research interview at 6am.  I dug out the packet of Buttermilk Pancake mix thats been in my cupboard since the dawn of time, mixed it up with some precious almond milk and then studded the batter with bananas and walnuts or mixed red berries sweetened with agave syrup.  Slapped it into the double-sided little egg frying pan Mum had bought me for Christmas (bloody marvelous invention – you cook it on one side, then flip the whole pan onto the other side so it cooks perfectly) and job’s a good ‘un!!  I still burnt them a little bit (Rome wasn’t built in a day, right?) but they were actually pretty darn tasty.  As they should be for the calorie count!!  When you take notice and have to write everything down for the benefit of my slacker tracker, those 3 little pancakes you see in the picture added up to over 1,000 calories!!!   Ay carumba!  So, though they were yummy, i dont think its a breakfast i shall be having very often!

Day 11: Pancake of Champions
Ingredients: Buttermilk pancake mix, almond milk, vegetable oil, walnuts, banana, thawed out red berries mix, agave syrup, butter for greasing(ish) the frying pan.
DoD: 2 (i had to remember to take the fruit out of the freezer the night before, heavy duty forward thinking)
II: 3 (banana and walnut – genius!)
PfBF: theoretical score =3 (given past history of paradoxically burnt, yet still raw, pancakes), actual score = 2