Stacked and Shredding

So, in preparing to come home to our life where money doesn't stretch quite as far as it does here..

I've taken up cooking again.

Well, actually, I didn't give it up.

I just have been able to enjoy a few more rest days than I would normally have at home.

Like 3 or 4 rest days a week.

It's quite tricky to do when your kitchen is not equipped.

And the pantry is lacking a few of what I would normally call 'essential pantry items'.

None-the-less,

we are eating food.

Food I am making.

Yesterday morning

in an attempt to avoid going out for breakfast...

(at $5 a head, why would we not eat out?)

I decided to make pancakes.

But, I did not want pancakes as I would normally make them.

I wanted to make pancakes as we have become used to having them here.

Which brings me to a whole new thing....

what really is a pancake?

It's all so confusing.

I would normally make them so they would roll-up.

Is that not a 'normal' pancake?

I don't know.

Pancakes here come stacked up, not rolled up.

So I wanted to stack them.

But did not want to make giant pikelets.... which I initially did think was what was really being served.

No, I wanted pancakes, stacked up.

So... I did what all good bloggers do.

I googled and found a recipe on a blog.

And it was good.

My children were praising my amazing new-found ability to make pancakes in obviously the most correct way there is.... this is part of my immersion into ex-pat life here.

They believe that China has taught me an essential life skill:

how to stack pancakes.

They were over the moon with delight; and over the top with praise.

Seriously, I was on the verge of telling them:

enough already.

Anyways, here is a recipe for those of you who would also like to go this way with the pancake making...

Pancakes for Stacking

I'm so lazy I can't even be bothered cutting and pasting it on my blog.
I did not add the vanilla essence as the recipe does... I'd run out.

And onto the Shredding side of life:

This is two-fold.

I have some pants, that as a result of JM and shredding her way.... I will need to have taken in.

Pleased. Yes I am.

Also, today I got a paper shredder.

I am now very busy with that.

It is a completely non-essential tool..... but one that will take over my world if I am not careful.

And that, my dear Widge, is a whole heap of crap.... in one blogpost.

Take a sip of coffee now.