Oatmeal-Blueberry-Bacon Pancakes for lunch

Nicole requested oatmeal for breakfast as she was getting ready for work. When I make oatmeal, I tend to not measure anything out, and as a consequence, I never make the correct amount. Long story short, I had a lot of leftover oatmeal at the end of breakfast.

What does one do with extra oatmeal? You throw it away, obviously. However, I decided to use it for oatmeal pancakes, which I would have for lunch.

While performing my domestic duties, I decided to make some broccoli salad, and let me just say that broccoli salad without bacon is NOT broccoli salad. So I crackled up some bacon. Yum.

Making the pancakes while crackling this bacon made me automatically leap to putting bacon in my pancakes. I’m also a firm believer in putting blueberries in my pancakes when they are available. As a result, I made myself oatmeal-blueberry-bacon pancakes, with homemade maple syrup. So delicious. My first bite sent me into immediate bliss. I then continued to gorge myself because this concoction was too delicious to walk away from after a single serving.

Michelle did not eat the bacon pancakes. I gave her a very plain oatmeal pancake, which she quickly spit out and took the rest off her plate and threw it on the ground.

Recipes: Follow the links. I’m not writing these because they aren’t mine. The maple syrup recipe is there because it’s super easy, and I don’t know where I learned it.

Oatmeal pancakes:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/oatmeal-pancakes-ii/detail.aspx
I also added a handful of blueberries, and added crispy bacon bits to individual pancakes.

Red Broccoli Salad:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/red-broccoli-salad/detail.aspx
I didn’t use as much bacon as the recipe calls for (2 pounds!), but either way, make sure the bacon is really crispy otherwise the salad smells like garbage. This is the best salad, I don’t care who you are.

Maple syrup: 1 cup sugar, 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup corn syrup, dash of maple flavor. Bam.

I considered this to be a very dad-like lunch. Quite proud.