{"id":471,"date":"2012-11-03T12:59:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T18:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/?p=471"},"modified":"2012-11-03T12:59:26","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T18:59:26","slug":"my-pancake-looks-like-the-death-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrybegly.com\/superunleashedblog\/2012\/11\/my-pancake-looks-like-the-death-star\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pancake Looks Like the “Death Star”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pancake<\/a><\/p>\n

7:10 am. Saturday. I\u2019ve just completed making four perfect pancakes for my kids. Golden brown, fluffy enough to jump on in your stocking feet. The kids are happily munching away, chugging a gallon of milk, and humming their \u201chappy\u201d songs.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow for the \u201cPiece de Resistance!\u201d *<\/em>  I declare, as I prepare to flip MY pancake.<\/p>\n

The pancake goes up in the air, does a Triple Lindy, and a section of the cake decides to detach from the mother ship, and set a trajectory course off to the east, while the main fuselage continues on the flight plan that I had filed. Down, comes the cake, one piece floating into the pan, in a gloriously soft landing worthy of a \u201c9.8\u201d from the Lithuanian judge, while the second section of the now-disintegrating cake splatters on the stove and comes to rest in \u201cUgly Land\u201d. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s rare to look in a cook book and see a \u201cExploded View of Pancake\u201d.<\/p>\n

I sent a Downed Aircraft Rescue Team to retrieve the errant section and continued muttering something in French while I looked over my shoulder to see if my children had noticed that Dad isn\u2019t a gourmet chef. Luckily, they were still chomping and guzzling, and accidently putting their elbows into Log Cabin syrup.<\/p>\n

I shoveled my wounded cake onto the finest plate I could find (this ought to make it look better) and sat down, asking for the about-to-fall-on-the-floor pancake syrup.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t ask me what the light colored stuff is in the photo above. I could be homemade butter; it could be sea foam. I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n

The cake tasted ok despite the looks.<\/p>\n

Now I know how George Lucas made his models in the earliest Star Wars episodes. He cooked his own pancakes for breakfast.<\/p>\n

Oops, I gotta go. My wife says Spielberg is on the line.<\/p>\n

*Noun<\/b>
1.<\/b>
piece de resistance<\/b> – the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection: collector’s item<\/a>, showpiece-curio<\/a>, curiosity<\/a>, oddment<\/a>, peculiarity<\/a>, rarity<\/a>, oddity<\/a> – something unusual — perhaps worthy of collecting: rariora<\/a> – (plural) rare collector’s items <\/p>\n

2.<\/b>
piece de resistance<\/b> – the most important dish of a meal: dish<\/a> – a particular item of prepared food; “she prepared a special dish for dinner”                                  (source: thefreedictionary.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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