This was the plan: Jac would get up early on Saturday morning and go to work for an hour or so. I’d stay in bed and keep sleeping. When Jac got home, she would cook breakfast and we would eat together. A fine plan, I thought. :)
I’m usually terrible at sleeping in on weekends or days off, but on this particular day I was exhausted from the week – I didn’t even notice when Jac got out of bed, showered and went out. I barely noticed when she got back home. She didn’t wake me – she just started cooking. I woke up when as soon as I smelled the bacon frying. In fact, the bacon smell woke both Pixel and me up – she’d stayed in bed with me the whole time and had been snuggled up on my legs sleeping but the smell of bacon woke both of us up. Billy Lee was already up and hanging out with Jac. :)
When I reached the kitchen I practically squealed* with delight because THIS was what I saw!
Jac was very proud that she’d piled the pancakes in a tower, thinking it would make a good photo for the blog. :D
So this was my breakfast – pancakes and bacon drizzled with maple syrup. I’ll just let the next few pictures do the talking.
When I was down to my last pancake, I cut it into six pieces, then cut my bacon into six pieces that I placed on top of each piece of pancake, then drizzled a little more maple syrup on top. Six mouthfuls of yum.
I can look at the pile of pancakes for a long, long time. There were pancakes left over for more deliciousness later. :D
What’s your idea of the perfect way to wake up on a weekend?
* The last time I remember writing about food making me squeal was: Hard-boiled egg makes woman squeal (Wednesday bento)
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Pancakes! OHMIGOSH. I heart pancakes. Those look AMAZING.
My favorite way to wake up on the weekends? Lazily. Preferably with some coffee, juice and pancakes or waffles made by my husband (he was the magic touch for them; I do not). Throw in the NYT crossword and you’ve got perfection.
Pancakes with bacon and maple syrum – the absolute best breakfast of all time – you lucky thing!
I loving this combination at the moment. However we have gone to Pancake Palour and grabbed a bag of their 1.5 kilo mixture. So now I can have homemade pancake palour pancakes with bacon and maple syrup with a milky decafe coffee, total heaven.
Jac is awesome! :) Those pancakes and that bacon both look delish!! :)
My favorite way to wake up on weekends? Sleep in (I work on weekends as well), and then have waffles and sausage. YUM :)
Hmmm… to cheat and do something similar if you live alone (or are the only cook), set the bread machine on a timer with some raisin bread ready to go, set the coffee pot on a timer, lay in bed and enjoy the aromas before going down for fresh bread and coffee.
Love pancakes and bacon but don’t normally eat them together – must try it because it looks so mouth watering.
On weekends I like to wake up late and make a big breakfast of bacon, eggs, tomato and toast (my once a week treat) and eat it at a leisurely pace while reading the paper. Beats a hurried breakfast of cereal and toast hands down.
BTW – enjoyed reading your blog about the Tetsuya experience – country bumpkin or not you wrote it well and with a genuine passion for food.
oooh that does look good. Pancakes + bacon + maple syrup = my husband’s favourite breakfast :)
Haha! You made ME squeal with that picture of the pieces of your last pancake, with the bacon toppers! I’d have to agree with you that any weekend morning involving bacon is great.
Where did you find her anyway? I’ll say it again,she is a gem! Waking up to the smell of bacon! I love weekend breakfasts! Lazy and lingering over the papers. Many cups of your beverage of choice. My husband does the pancakes and waffles . I ‘ve convinced him he does it the best , so he always tries to outdo himself. My mum didn’t raise any fools! :)
wow, thats look delicious. Yummy.
Btw can i ask how to make the pancake round in shape.I always have difficulty making it in rounded shape.. :-P
oh yeah the Bacon looks like char siew :-P
-drools- that looks delicious…the last time I had pancakes, I was at my greataunt’s, two Christmases ago, since she was helping me take care of my little cousin when my other aunt was in the hospital(she has lupus, and her kidneys were failing), and she had the batter in a can, so we had pancakes for breakfast, and my uncle made me an omelette as well. I think Jac’s pancakes look better, though, and the bacon looks to be just the way I like it. everyone in my house loves it completely crisp, and I like it to be nice and limp, so the fat melts in my mouth
Y’crawl into the kitchen and y’open the blinds and the light floods in and all is good.
Y’turn things on and slip some Mingus into the player and y’beat a coupla eggs and a spoon of chopped chilli in a bowl.
Y’put a few-too-many slices of smoked streaky on the griddle and y’dip a coupla crumpets in the egg.
Y’slap the crumps into a frypan while y’make the teacoffeejuice.
Y’mime some righteous bass.
Y’drop the eggycrumps on a great big plate and y’cover with crispy pig. Meanwhile, the remaining beaten chilliegg is omeletting in the pan, along with the scallions y’chopped during your air-bass solo.
Y’sprinkle this plate-o-dreams with some rocket and some syrup and you eat whilst reading the papers which have majicked themselves onto th’table.
All is good.
Bacon is life.
Jac was right, that stack of pancakes DID make for excellent food porn! :-) I’m envious and now I want pancakes too.
You certainly know how to stretch your meal with the six mini bacon pancakes at the end. I’m usually too busy nomming everything up to think that far! :-)
I think you may actually have described the perfect weekend wake up. Although I’m quite fond of our home made McMuffins (http://food.craigandcarolinehind.info/2010/04/02/breakfast-homemade-mcmuffin/) followed by a very lazy day of doing not much, watching movies, listening to music, playing Internets. Possibly a bit of lounging next to the pool. Oh yes, that sounds nice.
I love how you created the “perfect bite” doughy, crispy, salty, and sweet all at once…yum! I always seem to be trying to build the perfect bite at breakfast. Pancakes & waffles just lend themselves to building the “perfect bite”…don’t they?
Perfect weekend wake-up? Hmmm…the smell of coffee wafting up our second floor bedroom that I didn’t have make. On the weekends, my DH is on coffee duty.
It’s cool how the cats match your personalities.
And I’ve been craving bacon for a while now :(
Beautiful! Yeah, the scent of frying bacon is wonderful to wake up to. :-) I’d want a bit of butter on each cake, and a glass of cold milk to wash it all down. ;-)
“What’s your idea of the perfect way to wake up on a weekend?”
A sunny morning with a mildly cool, soft breeze flowing in a partly-opened window; high wispy/puffy clouds to the south…and a good breakfast at a favourite restaurant.
The perfect way to wake up on a weekend would be as late as possible, and to the promise of spending time with family and good friends, preferably in the company of good food! :) Even better if the food’s been cooked for me by Mum!
Oh. Wow. Perfect.
I would have died of joy if I got up to this today. Instead I woke up to an overenthusiastic friend texting me way too early, sunlight streaming in the window, and thoughts of wishing I had perhaps gone to bed a little earlier and/or not had that last beer. A pancake stack with perfectly cooked bacon such as this would have made it all better.
Kali,
Heheheheheh yes, I absolutely love pancakes and Jac knows that. :)
I always attempt the lazy wake-up but I think my brain is too well trained and struggles to sleep/relax too long.
Grendel,
My favourite breakfasts all involve bacon and maple syrup, with pancakes or waffles or french toast. :D Yep, I feel very lucky.
katt,
That’s cool! We could get pancake mixes from the supermarket which would be so convenient – but I prefer Jac’s made-from-scratch pancakes. Unfortunately the pancake mixes we can buy tend to be (to my taste) too sweet.
Katie,
I think she’s pretty awesome too! :D Mmm, waffles and sausage would be delicious too.
Ellen,
We’ve talked about getting a bread machine for years… it might be time stop talking and just go get one. :P
Jacky,
Let me know what you think if you do try it. I love bacon and eggs and tomato too – I like scrambled eggs most of all. When we do the big fry-up breakfasts it’s always my job to cook the scrambled eggs. :) Cheers – glad you enjoyed the Tetsuya post. I really wanted to capture the event accurately.
Wooo for Lisa’s hubby’s excellent taste in breakfast!
Megan,
Heheheh. Bacon makes just about everything better, I reckon.
kathy,
Actually, she came looking for me. I might tell the story one day. :) (Come to think of it, I may have in one of the old posts – I can’t remember) Yes – definitely many cups of tea for me! Haha, good strategy with your hubby “doing it best”.
Lina,
I asked Jac for her tips for cooking pancakes:
It’s something you perfect over time, I think. :) Hope that helps a bit.
Christle,
I couldn’t go for that long without having pancakes! I like omelettes too, but don’t have them that often.
Steve,
That sounds magnificent. :)
Craig,
Hahahah, I like the look of your home made mcmuffins. :) I used to do something similar for myself when I lived alone – a nice thick slice of fried SPAM and a fried egg in a toasted English muffin. Your lazy day sounds good! My lazy day involves lots of eating, playing Internets and watching dvds.
Denisse,
Yes, definitely the perfect bite. :)
Heheheh. I love the smell of freshly brewed coffee, but I haven’t drunk coffee for over 10 years.
Chi,
Well, usually Billy Lee is the lazy one while Pixel is running around the house getting up to all kinds of mischief. The main thing with them is they like company. So they’ll be hanging out with either Jac or me at any one time (or with both of us if we happen to be in the same place at the same time).
Cindy,
I like waking up to a bright sunny morning if I need to be out and about. If I don’t need to leave the house (and even better if I have the option of staying in bed) I love to wake up to a cold grey rainy day. I love sitting in bed listening to the sound of rain.
Dea,
That sounds pretty good. I just wish we had 3 day weekends permanently – one day to do all the housework and chores and boring un-fun stuff, another day to socialise, the last day to do recover/rest.
Conor,
Heheheh, What can I say…oh well! :P
Am always a fan of eggs, doesn’t matter how they are cooked as long as they have runny yolk or are super fluffy creamy scrambled.
Just reading a health book at the moment and have started drinking/eating miso soup, hear people have it for breakfast in Japan.