Feeding the Craving

So maybe I should be writing this over at my sister's new recipe blog because it's about food...

About a month ago, a friend at church (during the closing hymn in Relief Society) leaned over to me and said, "I just got a sudden craving for pancakes.  I can't wait to go home and make some - it sounds so good right now."  We laughed.  Then the power of suggestion overcame me and suddenly?  I had a craving for pancakes.  I don't even really like pancakes that much.  I much prefer waffles.

Since then, I've been thinking that every day was going to be the day I would have pancakes.  Then things came up.  Like the fact that you have to actually make the pancakes in order to partake.  Frozen waffles are sooooo much easier.  Then there is whole internal struggle to reduce my carb intake.  Pancakes with syrup are very non-low carb.

After a sleepless all night ordeal (my niece went to the ER last night for precautionary sake because she had symptoms of appendicitis - she's okay, just needs more fiber) where I kept thinking that I heard my phone ringing (it was turned off) and then feeling my sinuses drain and ears whirring (did I mention that I've been home sick 3.5 out of 5 days this week) I finally got up at 4:30 a.m. and called my sister just to make sure Brenna was okay.  Plus, I wasn't really sleeping and needed a drink of water and thought, "Hey, I'll call Angie. I'm sure she's up - it's 5:30 a.m. CST and Brenna and Jon have been in the ER all night!".  Turns out she was asleep but happily obliged me and we talked on the phone for 52 minutes and 36 seconds.

We hung up around 5:30 MST and I thought I'd just roll over and go to sleep.  No such luck.  Around 6:10 I gave up and turned on my computer.  Then my stomach started growling.  I drank more water but that didn't help.  Finally, the hunger pangs became painful (I guess my mac 'n cheese with tuna didn't do the trick as my lunch/dinner yesterday) so I got up and headed for the kitchen.  I thought I'd throw in the last of the frozen waffles but as I took them out of the freezer, they smelled freezer burnt (is that the right word or is it burned?).  Then I thought, "PANCAKES!!!!".   Within 10 minutes, I was digging in and finally feeding the craving.

Then I started thinking...what's the difference between pancakes and hotcakes?  Why do they call them pancakes?  They are made in a pan, but they don't really taste like cake (mmmm, cake).  Then I thought, "I should make these more often.  They didn't take that long and they were filling after 3 cakes.  Also, lucky for me, I bought 5 boxes of pancake mix for $0.25 apiece on sale...."

All of this happened before 7:15 this fine Saturday morning.  I think this is going to be a long day.  Good thing it started with a hearty breakfast...