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Gobble Gobble! Turkey Pancakes for Thanksgiving

With Thanksgiving  just around the corner, Allie decided this week that turkey pancakes were in order. Not just any turkey shape would do though, this had to look just like the turkey from her pop-up Thanksgiving book. Great. Overall I think he turned out pretty good, as far as Turkey pancakes are concerned. I used [...]

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All 3 year olds think that toilets are funny…

…and so do I! This one was created at the request of one of my cousins and it was a big hit at breakfast with the family. I guess toilets are inherently funny, Allie got a big laugh out of it. I made it by stacking a bunch of layers all together, a few chocolate [...]

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Piano Pancakes

If I only had a bigger griddle, I could make a full size keyboard. I think this is big enough for Mary had a Little Lamb, but that’s about it.

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Summer’s hottest fashion – Pancake Sunglasses

I’m back! Sorry for the hiatus, we’ve been camping on the weekends lately so I haven’t had a lot of time to do Saturday pancakes in the kitchen.  Anyway, we decided to make some awesome pancake glasses this morning, breakfast is always more fun when you can wear it. Note: add butter and syrup AFTER [...]

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Summertime is here!

Summer is officially here…I know because anything over 70 degrees and I start to panic. To “celebrate” the summer season, I decided to make a watermelon pancake! Note: using real watermelon in pancake batter does NOT color it. It only makes a huge mess and wastes otherwise good pancake batter For this one I used [...]

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When your dad is better at making pancakes than making campfires

We’re camping this weekend (as you can tell from the vintage upholstery in our 1977 motorhome) so of course we still made pancakes! I didn’t feel like making a full campfire first thing in the morning, so campfire pancakes are the next best thing. Allie thought it was pretty cool, she tried warming her hands [...]

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Just got an iPhone 4g- it’s delicious!

Why wait for the iPhone 4g to come out when you can make one that is just as good out of pancakes?

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I’m not even good at Tetris pancakes!

This is a pretty accurate depiction of how I play Tetris on my computer too. I’m usually okay until about level 3, then my brain starts to overheat. Luckily when you make tetris pancakes, if you get frustrated you can just eat up the block and make new ones Allie like the colors, but was [...]

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Deadliest Catch: Now in pancake form.

Here’s one in honor of Capt. Phil and the new season of Deadliest Catch. Thanks for the idea Patti! Crab claws are a lot harder to make than I initially thought, and I couldn’t remember if king crabs have one big claw or what. Whatever, looks like a crab to me. And, he was delicious. [...]

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Flights canceled due to eruption of Mt. Pancake

Flights over Europe would still be on time if volcano we’re filled with butter and syrup. I bet that Maui would smell pretty damn good too.

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