I wanted some pancakes this morning as I was heading home from a super-early crack of dawn golf session (I shot a 41 on a 9 hole par 28 course). So I went to Albertsons and thought about getting the ready made pancakes, but thought it would be more fun to make pancakes instead. I just got some milk and figured we had everything else I needed at the house. I thought we had that Bisquik stuff, but we did not. So I surfed over to allrecipes.com, a site recommended by Christina. I typed in pancakes and looked for the simplest formula. I found an easy one for buttermilk pancakes, printed it out and got started.

There were several problems right away. I did not have 1 1/4 cups of buttermilk. I used 1 cup milk and 1/4 cup of butter instead. The recipe called for 1/4 cup of vegetable oil, but I think we only have olive oil (it may be corn oil in an olive oil bottle, who knows?). So I mix the flour, egg, milk, butter, baking powder, oil, and some baking soda (which I found in the fridge) together. I'm then supposed to 'pour the batter onto the griddle to form 5 pancakes.' I don't have a griddle, so I figure our non-stick frying pan will do. I didn't really want 5 pancakes, so I thought I would make 2 BIG pancakes. My first BIG pancake didn't turn out so well because I ended up having to cook it like an omelet. It ended up as a BIG mess. I decided to make smaller pancakes after that.

The pancakes turned out okay. I won't be putting IHOP out of business anytime soon. At least I salvaged breakfast by also making some bacon (I didn't need help from allrecipe.com for this). Maybe I'll open up an IHOB.