Pickles by Brian Crane for March 16, 2015

Like the woman who divorced her husband of 60 years. When the judge asked why, she said, “Because enough is enough!”

Was the 12-to-16-bubble count Earl’s idea, or was what how he learned from his own parents?

Pour some maple syrup on top of his head next Opal.

I thought that was an old wives tales.

Maybe they can be used as Frisbees.

Well, when I was learning the breakfast line at a casino restaurant I was taught to look for the shine to fade. When the top started looking dull all the way across, flip them flapjacks.

My husband decided to make me pancakes when I was sick. He made sure there weren’t any lumps left. he was so proud! I looked at the box of Bisquik & they had indeed removed the phrase “the batter should be lumpy”. They were the thinnest & toughest pancakes ever. When you have to “tear” one you know it’s tough.

My dad loved my mom’s pancakes, but could never master the art of making them himself. I don’t know why, if you give a man something to cook, he will start patting at it with the “flipper” (spatula, fish slice, whatever you call it where you live). My dad – and my husband – will start out with nice pancakes and keep patting at them until they are as thin as paper and just as tasty.

Cut the flap, Jack!

My father was in charge of pancakes when I was a kid, many, many moons ago. It was all in the bubbles. I’m guessing he learned from his mother on the farm.

I don’t think Earl knows Crepes about Pancakes!.I’m in charge of pancakes in our house, but my wife is better with crepes and french toast.BTW can you still call it french toast if you use Challah bread?

The Pickles must be watching too much Sesame Street. Sunday Opal counting steps, today Earl counting bubbles.

So Earl, how many bubbles are on that pancake?? IBgone – really cute picture.

I skip the pancakes and go to WAFFLES!

My mother couldn’t make them fast enough!!! oh happy days!!!

The answer is ’ French Toast ’…

Nah, a GF grill has a lid.

well with a little coloring it’d look about as real as many hairpieces, just go with it earl

I’m not a fan of pancakes myself but I like Earl’s new hat.

xxx

Great, with all this talk about pancakes, now I want some pancakes.

Wait until the surface is covered with bubbles, then flip. A lot depends on grill temperature and batter viscosity!

The scene; a houseful of feisty females and just me and dad to defend ourselves, a hot, wood-burnin’ kitchin stove in a Vermont farmhouse, an 18 or 20-inch iron pan, well-cured, with 5 pancakes bubblin’ atop such and the never-ending arguments as to “turn ’em NOW!”..“no, wait!” screeech! blubber, jumping up and down, and sibling argumentation and so on, but Ma was the final arbiter on when to ‘turn them’.. Then came the real cow-butter and fresh boiled maple syrup.As a 10 year older, I could put away a dozen pancakes.. Today at the local diner, I’m lucky if I can stuff TWO of the dam things down my goozle ! Must be the ‘additives’ and ‘preservatives’ that cause my aging body to reject all that stuff ! The recipe must include that spray stuff they hose into older houses for “insulation that expands to fill all the cracks and crevasses”… That’s all I can come up with.

Earl is going to pay for that tonight, when she gets a charley horse and kicks the living bejeezus out of him.

Actually the reason pancakes are tough is because the batter was mixed too long. You need only mix it until the ingredients are barely combined.

I was always taught by my dad to watch the bubbles when they pop and stay open then it is time to flip.

actually this reminded me of cloudy with a chance of meatballs. the great book for young kids, not the strange twisted version they made it into for a movie