Pecans might replace meat with your pancakes

Whenever I eat pancakes and nothing but pancakes for a meal, I sort of feel...I don't know...like the meal is incomplete. Like maybe I still need to eat a bunch of protein. It's a relatively unsatisfying meal. If you can eat eggs, those are a great addition. So is a hunk of the meat du jour. But what if you want protein satisfaction without that hunk of animal flesh?

The last time I had pancakes, I added cranberries and pecans to the mix before cooking on the skillet. Much to my delight, not only did it taste good, but adding those items "beefed up" the pancakes (I guess there might be a pun there) enough to curb the protein craving. I added zero butter and used strawberry jam as my sweetener.

Mighty fine if I do say so myself.

So if you're trying to avoid meat, that might be the way to go. While my experiment above worked great, I must say that I do savor the thought of a side order of reindeer- or caribou sausage. Now that, my friends, would be awesome.

That's the quick cooking update for now from Hong Kong...