To​day Is National Pancake Day

T​he above picture is from my attempt at cooking pancakes using the Oh Cook! pancake recipe. The video is on my YouTube channel No Time To Drive if you've truly nothing else to do with your time and fancy a watch. I have decided to post this picture again today, because it serves as a valuable life lesson: not all food we cook is photogenic. Also, the above abomination is not due to Mr. May's masterful cookery book, his recipe for pancakes is fine. Instead, the above stack of, well I am not really sure, is due to my lack of skills in a kitchen. Except when making cheerios and unpeeling bananas. Those two things I can do quite masterfully.

M​uch like most of the Instagram holidays (aka most any "national anything day"), national pancake day serves as a reminder that we are all learning, as we are with most everything in life. For me, pancakes are a struggle. The most common things I hear when cooking them are "Not enough butter", "You used the wrong spatula", "The heat was too high", "You didn't use a no stick pan", bla bla bla, the list goes on. These are all true statements by the way, I just feel like writing about them as though they are somehow wrong and I am a master chef. However, this is not the case. The critiques are al valid and true and I am just a humble pancake flipper, making my way through a cookbook (Oh Cook!) which is the first of any kind I have ever owned or attempted to read.

My wish for everyone is to enjoy a stack of pancakes that hopefully look nothing like mine, and enjoy the learning moments in life. Or don't, since cooking mistakes usually are not in any manner enjoyable or even edible, but we all do our best. Happy national pancake day, and until tomorrow which is most likely the next "national *insert whatever it is* day", enjoy some pancakes!