Alton Brown’s Good Eats on The Food Network is THE best show. I love his cooking style and how he so imaginatively talks about food, and teaches about how to cook. It’s really fun. On tonight’s episode he talked about French Toast. I don’t make much French Toast any more since my children are grown. We did go through a spate there where French Toast was all the rave in my kitchen. I don’t do it up nearly as good as Mr. Brown does, bu it was edible (and yeah, the bread was like over a week stale not a day!).
Though French Toast was fun for a "season" the real draw in my kitchen was (and still is) PANCAKES. Pancakes are the ONE thing I can trust to get my brood up and around the kitchen table TOGETHER. They may mutter something vaguely distinguishable as English when they ask for "coffee", or look at each other through bloodshot eyes and grunt, acknowledging there is another body in the room. But the key is we are all together around the table. Pancakes get us there.
Here’s the recipe I’ve used for years, and just thought I’d share the pancake love with ya’ll:
 We have a nice bed of lillies in our orchard. It contains day and Asiatic lillies, and they are gorgeous. The Asiatic’s were a new import this year into the bed and we have been very happy with their gorgeous pink flowers & the height difference they’ve brought to the bed. Well, HAD might be a better idea. In the mornings, walking out into the orchard, barefoot, cup of coffee in hand, can be wonderful. But then I noticed as I was walking that up on the hill, where the bed lives, something was a miss - the Asiatics! Or more precisely, the flowers and BUDS. Carefully approaching the finely pruned bed I noticed it, the heads had been eaten off. WHAT! The outrage!!
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