I love being an adult

[andrewducker]

At 8:30 this evening I remembered that today is Pancake Tuesday.

25 minute later we were in bed, with pancakes (gluten and sugar-free, of course), happily munching away while watching The Canadian Fairy Show and HIMYM.

Awesome thanks to Julie, who talked me through the incredibly simple recipe for pancakes, which I had somehow managed to never actually make myself until today...

ObXKCD

Comments

[paddie-gal.livejournal.com]

Hey, I read your comments earlier about the gluten free thing, which is a Murphy family trait. In my generation of family, there's 21 of us (Murphys, Morrises and McGuirks) and 16 of us have either coeliac or crohns disease...not sure about Dad's side of the family, seems to be Mam's side.

Anyway, the whole "eating gluten until you're poorly so you can be diagnosed coeliac/gluten issues" thing. It's actually a pretty good idea, however sucky. If you are diagnosed with gluten issues, or with coeliac disease, you can then get lots of health things done, like endoscopies, bone density tests etc, which are good to know about anyway. PLUS if you're registered as gluten free (GF) then you can get things on prescription like GF bread/cakes/crackers/flour etc, some of which don't actually suck. I know it's 6 weeks of farting and horrible pooing and bloating, but it might actually be worth it, given the care you get afterwards. Summat to thing about.

[skington.livejournal.com]

I was expecting the xkcd reference to be this one.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

MLW does not like pancakes. They fall into the category of bouncy food which is anathema.

So not pancakes for me. I couldn’t justify cooking them just for myself, mainly because I am *full* from too many all you can eat buffets.

[andrewducker]

I have to admit to having eaten a big pile of pancakes all by myself :->

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

As have I.

Although sometimes the pancakes with their maple syrup kung-fu have defeated me.

On my first holiday to the US MLW and I went on a road trip from Portland, Oregon down the Pacific coast and then inland to Crater Lake (still one of the most magnificent things I’ve *ever* seen) and back up through the valley between the first and second set of mountains.

One the first day we stopped for breakfast at a dinner in the mountains. Very excited about my first USian breakfast out in the country I tried to order a tall stack of pancakes and was talked out if by the waitress. She persuaded me to have only a short stack. Which was two or three large plate sized pancakes. I got to the point where I could see the plate they were on and then gave up. The tall stack would have made me explode.

A week later on the way back to Portland I was offered a “more than I could eat” breakfast in Joe’s Dinner in Bend, Oregon. They were right. Tho' by that time I'd been eating USian food on the road for a week or more.

Food in the US is a funny old thing.