The breakfast of champions

Sure breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but on a Saturday morning, when your brain has shrunk to the size of a walnut and you can't help but think that you might have done some permanent damage to yourself, its becomes a necessity. My breakfast of choice - pancakes!

I prefer my pancakes thick and sweet. That could be because I usually have mine with border-line burnt rashers of streaky bacon which makes for a great contrast of textures and flavours. That's the other thing about pancakes - you can eat them with just about anything (though I am not super keen on savoury ones). Obviously, maple syrup makes pancakes but jams or preserves work wonders too.

Here's how I go about my business on those god-awful Saturdays mornings:-

• 250 grams of self-raising flour, sieved or just well stirred. If you don't have self raising flour just add in a couple of teaspoons of baking powder
• 2 large eggs
• a pint of milk
• a knob of melted butter, butter to grease the pan
• pinch of salt
• 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar (I did say I like mine sweet)

1. mix the eggs into the flour, adding the pinch of salt, sugar and the butter
2. slowly start pouring in the milk whilst continuously stirring - for the thickness I like I use about 2/3rds a pint, use more if you want them thinner
3. grease a pan, preferably non-stick, with a little butter and ladle the batter into the middle - all this with the hob on medium.
4. you are ready to flip when the pancake starts bubbling - toss if you dare!

Serve up with a large glass of orange juice and settle down on the couch for a day festered away watching shite television.