Happy weekend!  I’m hoping everyone has lovely things planned this weekend and intends to have fun and eat well.  For me, weekend food is all about breakfast, or brunch, because it’s the weekend and if you feel lazy about getting up and cooking that’s perfectly ok.  Breakfast is without doubt my favourite meal.  I would gladly eat breakfast fare morning, noon and night, savoury or sweet.  Eggs, bacon, hash browns, French toast, maple syrup – it’s all good (although not necessarily all together!).

My go-to breakfast dish to make for friends is pancakes.  Everybody likes them and you can easily adapt the flavours to suit what you have in your cupboards.  There are a lot of variations of the basic recipe and I’m still trying to figure out which flour to use, what the perfect balance of wet to dry ingredients is or whether to use milk or buttermilk, but this recipe never fails me and produces tasty moist pancakes.

Mostly I stick to the classic combination of lemon and blueberry when making pancakes, but having just picked up some peaches I thought I would experiment with another fruit/citrus combination and paired it with grapefruit.

The peaches were super sweet so the bitter, scented flavour the grapefruit added was an excellent balance.

So go on and enjoy your weekend and bake pancakes for breakfast!
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