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By Terry Orr
“Blueberry
pancakes, egg whites and bacon crispy please.” One of my favorite meals for
breakfast that I order at the Silver Diner in Fair Lakes, Virginia – an
excellent place to eat. Yummy and so delicious!
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Examiner.com offers these interesting facts:
The average person spends
just 4 minutes a day eating breakfast.
Pancakes have been
featured in cookbooks since 1439.
The French pancake is
called a crêpe. It is thin and often served with sweet or savory fillings.
Blinis are pancakes from
Russia that are served with caviar and sour cream or folded over and filled
with cream cheese or jam.
The world’s largest pancake
was cooked in Rochdale, England, in 1994. It was 15 meters in diameter and had
an estimated 2 million calories
Ralf Laue holds the
world’s pancake tossing record. He flipped a pancake 416 times in just two
minutes!
With just 80 calories per
cup and virtually no fat, blueberries offer many noteworthy nutritional
benefits.
According to nutrition
expert Tina Ruggiero, as part of a healthy diet and exercise plan, blueberries
help reduce risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as the accumulation
of belly fat.
According to the USDA
Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, laboratory studies show a diet
including blueberries may improve motor skills and reverse the short-term
memory loss that comes with aging or age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
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One of the beauties of eating blueberry pancakes – you can
have them any way you like – cooked in the pancakes, on top or side, favorite
batter, - and any time of the day! We
enjoy having a ‘breakfast’ dinner a couple times each month and this is one of
those meals.
How do you like your Blueberry
Pancakes?
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