Breakfast for Dinner

Stanley and I cooked dinner together today. We had a hard time figuring out what we wanted to cook, but finally decided to have breakfast for dinner. Stanley and I share a love for cooking and eating, so we were very excited. We decided on eggs, bacon, and blueberry pancakes. Stanley had never cooked pancakes before, so it was a good learning experience too! The pancakes required four ingredients: pancake mix, milk, an egg, vegetable oil, and we also added blueberries. Am I making you hungry yet? The recipe only made six pancakes, but we were hungry so decided to double the recipe. Here's how it went. . . 

The recipe called for one cup of the mix, one tablespoon of vegetable oil, and one egg. So, doubling the recipe was easy; we just put two of each instead of one. Then, we realized we forgot the milk. The recipe called for 1/2 cup of milk, so doubling that was easy too. Stanley explained he hadn't learned about fractions yet, but knew that two halves made a whole. I asked him to explain how he knew that and he gave an excellent explanation. He said, "If you have one whole pizza made up of eight slices, then you eat 4 pieces, only half of the pizza is gone. 4 + 4= 8, so half of eight is four. Therefore, I knew two halves had to make a whole." I thought that was a pretty good explanation, and talking about pizza made me even more eager to get our dinner ready! Stanley was curious to how I knew when to flip the pancake. You always know its ready to be flipped when bubbles begin to appear in the batter. Stanley wanted to try flipping the pancake, and he was a natural! His pancakes turned out better than mine. We really enjoyed eating breakfast for dinner. You should try it sometime!