My husband likes pancakes.

To me, it’s a surprising fact that HE, being so picky and not generally tolerant towards western food, and such a stubborn eater like most of Sichuan people who almost adore their cuisine from the hometown, DOES LIKE PANCAKES.

Because he likes them, of course I would serve them on the table from time to time. However, in the past I just buy pancake mixture from the supermarket. It’s probably not the best choice but it’s the easiest. The only thing you need to do is to fill in the bottle with water to the marked line, shake the mixture well, then pour the liquid mixture in non-stick fry pan. In 10 minutes or so, you will have a stack of pancakes ready for eating.

But guess what, also because my husband likes pancakes, I was kind of under some very funny impression that all the things that he likes are supposed to be very hard to make, hence I had never thought that I could make pancakes from scratch at home, instead of using pancake mixture from the supermarket.

I was so wrong. This morning I made my very first-time pancakes out of a cup of self-raising flour, sugar, milk and egg. It was so easy to do and turned out beautifully, except they were less sweater than the one that we got from supermarket. But that’s an easy-fix problem, right? I just couldn’t believe that they just looked exactly the same as the sold ones, colour, texture, softness and taste.

I know many young kids in Australia make pancakes in their cooking class in school. And some kids know how to do it because they saw how their moms did them. Making pancakes is probably one of the simplest things of all the cooking skills. It’s like making Chinese dumplings in our culture, and it’s even easier than that.

Bearing that in mind, I do admit that I am a bit exaggerating my joy of being able to do it. However, I still feel proud. Having been talking about going to Pancake Parlour for a breaky for quite some time, I finally found a nicer back-up plan for a heart that has desire for pancakes.

I know…I am a good money saver who just likes to take all the fun away

Here is a basic recipe of pancake pikelets (smaller version of pancakes) from Taste.com.au. You can make your own if you like.