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Daniel scared me half to death this morning. I had fallen asleep in the living room (Yes, again. If you have any suggestions on how to quit this horrible habit, I will be MORE THAN HAPPY to hear them. It is embarrassing how often I fail to come to bed in a given week.) but my internal alarm clock is pretty good, so I was awake on time.

I rolled off the couch and noticed that our front door had been left unlocked all night. We live in a secured building, so really the only people that could have intruded would be our two downstairs neighbors but I still do not like to leave the door unlocked while I am sleeping. So I locked the door.

I made my way through the living room and as I was about to step into the kitchen, I heard a voice from the darkness growl, “HELLO, I–”

And I screamed.

It was more of a “WHOOOOooOOoOO!!! YOU SCARED ME HALF TO DEATH WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING UP?” but I screamed nonetheless. I couldn’t see Daniel in the dark and he was standing at the other end of the kitchen, right after I had told myself that despite leaving the door unlocked all night, we probably did not have any intruders.

Turns out he had kindly turned the alarm on for me even though I had not actually made it to bed, and had been snoozing the alarm without me even in the room for more than a half-hour. Whoops.

Several months ago, Daniel started making pancakes on the weekend. Usually Saturdays. We went through about a box of pancake mix before we realized that, hey, most pancake mixes contain trans fats (I KID YOU NOT). Which, ew. He was pretty sure he could come up with a homemade pancake mix that would withstand our discerning tastes.

Our pancake requirements are as follows, and yours may or may not be different:

• Thin. I myself do not mind fat pancakes much, but the most delicious ones are thin, almost like crepes but not as flimsy.
• Taste good. So many pancakes make the right texture but are all off taste-wise. I like that tangy taste the batter has when it’s good.
• Texture. The pancake should not resemble a frisbee.

After much trial and error involving DM’d pancake recipes on Twitter, calls to mothers, and various tips gleaned from coffeeshop customers, Daniel came up with a recipe. These pancakes result in delicious tasting, thin pancakes that do not resemble a frisbee in either taste or texture. In case you are also on the hunt for the perfect pancake, I can wholeheartedly recommend these.

(I asked Daniel what I should name these, and he said, “Delicious Pancakes. You can add a ‘.net’ if you want.” So there you have it.)

Delicious Pancakes by Daniel

Just short of 1 C flour
3T sugar
3/4 t baking powder
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t salt (DO NOT SKIP THE SALT!)
3 1/2 T vegetable oil
1 egg
Just over 1 C milk

Mix ingredients until lumpy. Make pancakes. I think we each get about three 4″ pancakes out of this recipe, but you could easily double it if you need more.

(I was going to do an approximation of this recipe in the Metric system, but… I never really learned it and the conversion calculators confused me and gave weird units of measurement. Do you normally measure things like flour in grams? What about butter? Milk?)

If you try this recipe out, would you let me know what you think? Enjoy!