It’s 3:30 in the morning and I couldn’t sleep. I’ve been craving for something to eat but I couldn’t put my finger on it… Until I got the urge to have some pancakes. Out of nowhere, I got a craving for bacon, sausages and pancakes! [Maybe because it was what Jack Nicholson was having for breakfast in the movie "As Good As It Gets" which was showing on HBO].

I got out of bed, went to the kitchen and opened the pantry. I couldn’t find any “one step” pancake mix… What to do? OH! I spotted some flour, baking soda… Why not make pancakes from scratch?! Though I’ve never tried it before,  I decided to give it a try.

I went back to my room, got on the net and keyed in the keywords: “pancake recipe from scratch” and lo and behold, a link to AllRecipes.com showed it. It was a link to “Good Old Fashioned Pancakes“. The picture was mouthwatering:

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I had a YM conversation with a friend of mine…

L: So what has the extremely busy eric pasion been up to today?
E: went to UP
E: tomorrow, i plan to run
E: i had 1/5 bag of sun chips
E: hehe
L: sunchips are healthy
L:
E: and i have a bag of doritos waitng to be opened
L: are you willing to share?
E: haha
E: you havent gone running yet
L: hahaha, i don’t think doritos is worth exercising for
L: kung cheetoes yan… hmmmm…

What do you think? It is worth it?

NOTE: It says 0% Trans Fat… but I think it’s still unhealthy. Better if it were baked. Hehe

As I had mentioned a few days back, I have a passion for food. Aside from that I also like experimenting and trying out all sorts of food. So I decided to make myself a healthy sandwich option… Parmesan & Pepper Crusted Fish Fillet on French Toast.

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One of my passions is eating… and then I got into cooking since I had to make the food that I like eating. To most of you who don’t know me that well, I’m really a cheapskate… Seriously! But… I’m also a big spender. The irony.

Anyway, for the past few weeks, I’ve tried to eat healthy food. So it’s brown rice for me, a lot of veggies and whenever possible, sandwiches for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Of course it would be crazy to deprive yourself of eating the food you like to eat so there has to be some days wherein you indulge.

MIDNIGHT CRAVINGS?

I’ve read before that eating midnight snacks is not healthy at all. It screws up your metabolism and causes your body to store much unwanted fat. So what do you do when youu suddenly get those midnight cravings? I for one am a night person. I usually sleep way past midnight and I really can’t help but look around for food to eat. I end up grabbing a bag of Doritos (or I’d go out to the nearest 7-11 and get myself one) or cook some bacon, spam or easy to cook breakfast food… all of which are “unhealthy” by the way because of the oil or grease they are cooked in.

Lo and behold, I found my answer in one of the boxes lying around the house. I found this inside… can you tell me what it is?

It looks a lot like a spaceship.

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