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.