Tonight one of the groups at school is hosting a Global Village. Basically it is a chance for international students to showcase their country's foods and culture for the people who might not have had a chance to visit the country. When the topic of cuisine came up, us Americans were having a somewhat difficult time deciding what we'd serve because most of our food is at least derived from a foriegn food. We went through our truly American options and came up with barbeque, fried chicken and apple pie. Pretty American we'd say. Problem? We don't have a smoker, a fryer or an oven. Thus, all of the above are essentially out of the question. Yes, we could do fried chicken, but for a large group of people it would be expensive and time consuming. So, instead we decided to do pancakes. Now sure the French and other countries have their own versions of pancakes, and the Dutch countries even make pancakes very similar to ours, but no one really eats pancakes with syrup like we do. So I spent the morning making silver-dollar sized pancakes. Thankfully the recipe is easy, the ingredients are cheap and the time needed to complete the task was about one hour from ingredient mixing to little pancakes on the platter. Now we'll just have to see how they go over at the gathering. Somehow I doubt they will not get eaten. Just a hunch though.
UPDATE: They ate all the pancakes
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