February 27th, 2011
It’s so fluffy I’m gonna die!
Last weekend my best friend, Robert, sent me a text with a picture of 6 horrifically flat pancakes stacked on one plate and the message, “My pancakes are all flat…why they be hatin’?” I had to stop for a minute and force myself to ignore the fact that he had already begun eating six pancakes at once (homeboy’s got issues with the concept of moderation), and focus on the fact that his pancakes were indeed, shall I say, flat as a pancake.
After some brief probing (“did you use baking powder?”) I learned “Jiffy Mix didn’t say to use it, maybe it’s already in there?” Boxed mix. Problem ascertained.
This made me think of a pancake recipe I’d actually just recently been testing (three times in one week, I thank you) which I have found to be quite delicious, easy, and very fluffy. So fluffy, in fact, that it reminds me of the scene in Despicable Me with the fluffy unicorn. If you’ve seen it, you know what I mean. If you haven’t, you need to.
So yeah. Pancakes. Poofy, healthy, multigrain pancakes. And Robert. I told him to nix the Jiffy and of course, culinarily inept as he is (although he’s amazing at building and creating things, photography, and design, his kitchen prowess is limited to possibly washing dishes), he asked what he could possibly do without his beloved mix. I told him to check his email. What follows is the email I sent him, almost verbatim.
Dramatic, me? Noooo….of course not…