I'm gonna be honest, I can make a lot of things, but good pancakes are not one of them, good thing I don't have to. After yet another exam crammed in at the end of the semester I needed some syrupy sustenance and I headed to probably one of my favorite places for pancakes, well, actually, hot cakes, the Bel Loc Diner.If there is a difference between pancakes and hotcakes I don't know what it is and I would love for someone to enlighten me, but honestly, I don't care what they're called when they taste this good. On the corner of Loch Raven and Joppa I found the breakfast oasis which would help me stop thinking about all the little things that I forgot about as soon as that exam started.
For those of you who haven't been there the Bel Loc is a simple diner with a lot of charm. Well maintained booths line the walls and on a day like today it's never too crowded. The bar is covered with desserts and black and white tiles trim the ceiling adding to the comfy casual retro motif. We settled into our booth and I didn't even need to look at the menu. I wanted a little stack of heaven, which isn't a little stack at all. A pile of 3 huge hotcakes arrived just minutes after I had ordered, accompanied for me by a side of scrapple, my dining companion went with the ham. A stack of syrup packets were delivered to the table with our breakfast, and while it looks like a lot, but these sponges of heaven soaked up that syrup creating a cosmic combination of sugar, flour, butter, amazingness. This is the part where I forget about the fact that I wasn't sure if I put B or C for #27, I don't even care. I couldn't even get through half the plate, although I happily devoured my perfectly cooked thickly sliced side of scrapple which would have made my Grandmother proud.
Sitting there allowing myself to digest Danielle and I talked about everything from pancakes to pho (future blog entry alert) to wedding dresses to that awful exam. I don't know how long we sat with our mountains of remaining hotcakes and coffee, but somehow my hotcake induced euphoria led me to the idea of a food blog. I know there are lot of food blogs out there but I hope you can join me on my GI (gastrointestinal) adventures. I'll lead you down a winding trail of my favorite places, favorite recipes, and some of my own personal cooking triumphs and disasters, which everyone has but not everyone admits to.
Fully satiated and inspired we headed out with to-go boxes in hand to our next destination. I don't think the left over hotcakes are going to last very long, I'm getting hungry writing this and I think it's time for a snack.
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