Welcome to my Pancake Blog

So, what does a person with no children and free time do?  Why think of creative ways to eat of course.  So begins the Around the World in Pancake Sundays project.

One day while eating pancakes made from sprouted wheat and chocolate chips, I started thinking about how fun it would be to eat a different type of pancake each Sunday.  I know, you must be stuck on the whole sprouted wheat pancakes.  I'm sure many are thinking eeeeewwww, sounds yucky right now.  However, they are actually quite tasty.  I was given my first taste of them by a friend last New Year's Eve (well, technically the morning after New Year's Eve).  I was so enamored of them that I went searching for my own sprouted wheat to make some for myself a couple of months later.

O.K., enough digressing.  While eating the above mentioned pancakes, started thinking about eating a different type of pancake each Sunday.  I began to wonder if I could find a different type of pancake for each Sunday for a whole year.  So I set myself the challenge of finding a unique pancake recipe to try out each Sunday.

I continued to think about this idea for the next couple of weeks.  I started thinking about how most cultures actually have their own versions of pancakes.  This led me to try to find a pancake from each country in the world.  I finally began my project last Sunday, and decided to chronicle it here in this blog.

So welcome to my pancake blog, I hope you enjoy it as much as I am sure to enjoy making and eating them!  Heck, I hope you make some and enjoy them too!

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