One of the most delicious aspects of running a bed and breakfast is breakfast. When we serve pancakes for breakfast, sometimes they look and smell so wonderful it's hard to pass up the opportunity to cook the rest of the batch for ourselves.
On this particular day, we happened to have some blueberries. It is so much fun to pelt the pancake with plump juicy berries before flipping it over.
Of course, if you get too carried away you can burst them and the cooked side of the pancake displays the bombardment bleeding through. It does add a little something when the blueberry sugars slightly caramelise.
The best way to serve pancakes is with a perfect spiral of butter (now slightly melted (and may not have quite fit the mathematical definition to start with (but that's what you are aiming for))), smokey bacon and really real(tm) maple syrup. I can't stress the maple syrup enough. I'm not $#@%ing kidding.
The first time I made blueberry pancakes was for Jodie. We only had one couple in the house, so Jodie was able to have a rare sleep in. After finishing their breakfast, I wanted to take Jodie breakfast in bed. Even though pancakes in bed would be freakin' awesome, I wanted to make it something special. Not just the best pancakes I've ever tasted special... something extra. I consulted with Nigella who gave us the pancake recipe we use, and right there on that very page was the suggestion for peppering the partly cooked pancake with blueberries. I got chills. For real. We had a fresh punnet of blueberries in the fridge. So I got to work, made fresh french pressed coffee and serenaded my wife with not song, but food.
Needless to say that was a great start to a very pleasant day.
