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My new breakfast of choice is Flax Pancakes with bacon (or sausage or just butter and fake syrup. The fake syrup really fucking sucks though.)

It's amazing to eat pancakes again even if they're not really like real pancakes. And these aren't the Atkins-style pancakes, so there's no sneaky hidden carbs in them. They're made with seeds and eggs. Yes, seeds and eggs. Apparently, seeds + eggs = pancakelike result.

Here is my recipe:

2 eggs
2 tablespoons milled flax seeds
crapkins fake maple water-- I mean syrup
butter
bacon (optional)

Butter frying pan.
Beat eggs. Add seeds. Add a healthy squirt of Crapkins fake maple syrup to make the pancakes sweet.
Pour half of mixture into pan. When edges are firm, flip. When it seems like it's fully cooked, take it off and repeat.

The result is a couple of fat pancakes similar in texture to buckwheat pancakes. Total carbs = 17, minus 8 for fiber equals 9 net carbs. Very nice for second-stage Atkins. (Calories = 300, if you're counting, which you should. This is a good number of calories for an Atkins breakfast. You can drive the calorie count WAY up by wrapping the pancakes around bacon. Which is nice if you're trying to get the bulk of your calories at breakfast, which you should.)

I don't recommend that you pour the syrup over the pancakes and try to eat them as if they're actually pancakes. It's very disappointing. Instead, think of them as a vehicle for bacon, or some other type of breakfast sandwich. I even had them once, minus the syrup flavoring, as a base for a faux-quesadilla. The strangest things start tasting good for you when you've been eating this way for awhile...

That concludes Tavie's Recipe Funhouse for the day. In other news... it appears to be snowing. Hard. Yesterday I was broiling. Now it is snowing.

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