Breakfast: It's What's For Dinner

Breakfast: It's What's for Dinner

Sometimes, breakfast makes a very fine dinner. It's not something I usually think to do, but pregnancy breeds, among other things, strange requests.

I nary batted an eye when my wife asked if I'd be willing to make pancakes for dinner this evening. Back to the pancakes in a moment, but there was something very deeply satisfying about the whole dinner:

Asparagus and swiss cheese omelet
Pancakes and syrup
Baked apples with cinammon and brown sugar
Freshly-cooked bacon
A tall glass of OJ

Damn, this was really good. Now, I need to figure out what to have for breakfast tomorrow.

Two side notes:

Pancakes...The Joy of Cooking (some old version from the 60s or 70s) has an absolutely killer pancake recipe. I'd say I was a pancake-cooking genius, but really I'm just following a very simple recipe.

Take 6 oz/1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, sift together with 1 3/4 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt, and 3 tsp superfine sugar (regular doesn't go through my mesh sieve I sift with). Mix in a cup of milk, 3 Tbsp melted butter, and two egg yolks (all mixed together before mixing with the dry stuff and roughly room temp). Fold in the two egg whites beaten until just stiff. Cook on an electric griddle at 325 or 350.

These puppies were 3/4 and inch thick at least, and light and fluffy to boot. Very, very good pancakes, if I do say so myself.

An additional point...syrup, namely Griffin's Waffle Syrup. This is an Oklahoma product from my wife's childhood, and it is an excellent syrup. I've not found it in Chicago, nor yet in KC (though I have found non-waffle syrup versions here and I think their mustard in Chicago), so for as long as I've known her we've been trekking the stuff (or getting her parents to deliver) home in mass quantities. I'm no Grade A (or Grade B, as it were) pure Vermont maple acolyte. This is a different product. And it beats the snot out of Mrs. Butterworth, Aunt Jemima, Hungry Jack, and company. I highly recommend you order a case. And make sure to get the waffle syrup.