Pancakes

I love having breakfast for dinner. I'm usually just not that hungry in the morning, so peanut butter on toast is my usual breakfast. But for dinner? I can make pancakes! And bacon! And strawberries! And tonight the pancakes were awesome - it really makes no sense how some nights the pancakes are big and fluffy and other nights flat as a ...pancake. Fresh baking powder probably had something to do with tonight's success.

I also made the sloppy joe filling for tomorrow's dinner today. I kind of smushed together Rachel Ray's recipe here and The Pioneer Woman's recipe here.

My recipe:
1. Open big package of ground beef. Vacuum two one-pound chunks and freeze. Make two hamburger patties and refrigerate. Brown remaining pound of beef.
2. Add the three cremini mushrooms hiding in the crisper, diced, while browning beef.
3. Move browned beef to a bowl, drain fat into a custard cup to add to the dog's dinner, and wipe out the skillet so the vegetables will be vegetarian.
4. Cook an onion in a bit of canola oil, dice and add the top inch of a green pepper and about half of a cup of already-diced pepepr, then add about 3/4 of a jalapeno pepper, and realize that if you added the rest of the diced pepper and another onion, you'd have a really good start on chili later on. Do that, then add about 1/2 tsp chopped garlic. Put half of this in the freezer for later.
5. Add the beef back to the veggies.
6. Put some water in the almost-empty ketchup bottle (maybe 1/4 cup left in it), shake it up, and add to the pot.
7. Add about a tablespoon Worcester sauce, a tsp of steak rub, about a tablespoon of brown sugar, and quite a few grinds of black pepper.
8. Scrape off a couple tablespoons of frozen tomato paste and melt those in. Simmer until blended. Taste and enjoy :)
9. Refrigerate for tomorrow.