Days Off

Morning is my absolute, hands down favorite time of the day. That being said, I'm not always so inclined to wake up during the actual morning. Nevertheless, I still demand at least 2 hours of "morning" even if it happens to fall between the hours of 11 am and 1 pm.

Since I had half of a carton of eggs leftover from baking brownies with my roommate, I decided that I would make pancakes. What better way to start off my day off from working than with warm, bready goodness.


Pancakes are quite the accomplishment for me because I lack what some people like to call patience. I usually turn up the heat way to high and flip the pancake too soon. I end up with a charred, soggy piece of bread that even the best maple syrup can't help. Luckily, in my newly acquired wisdom (in cooking at least), I decided to actually read the box instructions. (That's right, these are not from scratch. At least I didn't choose the "just-add-water" one. It was a close second though.) Aunt Jemima knows how to cook pancakes, let me tell you. Key: the griddle should be just hot enough to for drops of water to sizzle and "dance" around.

And since I'm the type of girl that can really put it away, I decided that I should be somewhat virtuous and buy the whole wheat pancake mix. I think the blueberries help in this department too. And I like to tell myself that even though I had real maple syrup on the cakes, at least I wasn't filling my body with cancer-forming, gene-mutating fake sugars.