Community Crepes! (Orange Marmalade)

Friends,  I know you know the saying that necessity is the mother of invention, and that is certainly the truth today. I have just discovered my new favourite pancakes. Trying to come up with a new variety of pancakes with bare pantries can be a bit of a challenge. We have no nuts (man, those things are expensive!), we do have apples, but I've already used those, but no other fruit to really speak of. I opened the fridge in desperation to see Orange Marmalade. Yummm. Orange Marmalade is one of my favourite things in the world- the dollar store here sells little jars of it with the rind in it and it's delicious. So I pulled it out and voila. The best pancakes I have ever made- And I'm writing this before Dave gets home to try them, so that's pure selfishness. He's biking home now, and then we'll watch Community together...except I've already watched it. Shame! And here's a clip from the new episode, specifically for my father.

The main story this week is that one of the main characters (Annie) meets a girl that is just like who she used to be- a perfectionist to the point of serious problems. She can't help but butt heads with her, as she tries to fight her natural instinct to revert to her old self. It doesn't necessarily sound it, but it's one of the funniest episodes I've seen. Go watch it! Now, recipe!

1 cup flour
1 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp oil
2 tsp. orange extract
3 Tbsp. (or so) of Orange Marmalade
1 cup milk




Combine your dry ingredients, and then stir in your oil. Add your wet ingredients all together, and stir until you get the consistency you want. I think it would be great if you switched out some of your milk for orange juice, but I didn't have any. I plan on trying this again with a different kind of jam... Maybe Raspberry. I think it just may be delicious. The sugar in the jam made the pancakes brown beautifully, and they taste kind of like the orange syrup you get at pancake places. They are soooo good. Edit: We kind of ate them so fast, we forgot to take a picture of them.

Dave has been super stressed out lately, and we're having new friends over for dinner tonight, so I'm really hoping these can help him relax, if even for a minute. We've had a good week, but there's so much going on, it feels like you never get a chance to slow down- and last night he barely slept. But again, that's the importance of silly little things like this. He gets to turn off his brain, eat good food, and laugh at a silly show. I hope you enjoy these as much as we do!