This was one heck of a breakfast. The heart of the meal was my friend Amanda's chocolate chip and banana pancakes. I made potato pancakes, scrambled eggs, and bacon to round everything out. I had sour cream for the potatoes and pedestrian but affordable Pace salsa for the eggs. When I bought it, the bacon looked really fatty (it was on sale, so I didn't care how fatty it was), but it turned out to be really meaty and salty and smoky and crunchy and delicious. The next time I do breakfast, I want to try this french toast recipe I got from "America's Test Kitchen," an excellent cooking show on PBS, but my opinion could probably be swain by pancakes as good as these.
We didn't originally plan to feed many, but five or six people ended up eating since we made enough. People gravitate to good food, especially in a place where home cooking isn't easy to get. Not to take away from the restaurants in the area, though, since many of them do food the right way. I just like to eat food that I know was made with a little TLC.
I felt especially good about the potato pancakes because I used yet another of my grandmother's recipes. She taught me well, and I want to keep proving it with the food I make.
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