I’ve just read over a number of my recent blog posts and realize how heavy they’ve become on food. Without realizing, healthy eating and how to achieve that, have become consuming passions. Now you ask, “So how can pancakes be your favorite hotel food?”
Well, I am human after all. I travel a lot speaking at conferences, speaking as a peer-mentor with the A1c Champions program and having a Dutch husband. That means I’m often lodging in hotels. My favorite breakfast at a hotel is not the all-you-can-eat buffet. I know I’d eat more than I should and I’m not interested in most of what’s on offer – the breads, muffins, cold breakfast cereals…Nope, I want two freshly scrambled eggs and one pancake.
If I could I’d wave a magic wand and make it a buckwheat pancake, trust me I would. But hotels have not gotten this far on the healthy breakfast spectrum. So buttermilk fills the bill.
I order my meal as two sides: Two eggs and one pancake. And most of the time after the strange look from the server, he or she becomes very accommodating. And I’m very specific, “One pancake please, no sugar, no syrup, no butter, no fruit.” When it comes I remove the orange slice and parsley garnish, which always seems to be there, and sprinkle my pancake with a little salt. A bite of sweet, dense and chewy pancake with the warm egg is quite delicious. Really, try it. Then, if the gods are smiling, I have time to head to the hotel gym and bring down the outrageous blood sugar rise one pancake causes.
Surfing this morning on pancakes, this recipe looks great if you’re making them at home – no flour, but almond meal and flax seed. If I actually cooked pancakes at home, I’d be sure to try it. Somehow I just like to keep my pancake confined to hotels.
