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I saw that anon ask about pancakes and I would actually be really interested in hearing how you make pancakes sufficiently interesting without getting fed up with them- the most adventurous I've ever managed to get is adding blueberries and occasionally substituting applesauce for an egg.

oooooh, pancakes are such a handy food to add stuff to!

basically, if you can cut it into small pieces, you can add it to pancakes

i'm a big fan of cheese, bacon, and/or onion-type vegetables. bell peppers are good, too, or mushrooms. or if you fancy, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, or any sort of nuts are nice, too

just put a bit of oil in a pan, add whatever non-pancake additives you want, sauté a bit, and then pour batter over it until everything is connected to the pancake. the resulting pancakes will break/tear apart far more easily and flipping them can get adventurous, so they won't look as pretty, but they're perfectly tasty

if you prefer them sweet, sliced bananas and grated apples are good additives, as well as most berries (cranberries and red currants may require additional sugar), and presumably any other fruit that goes acceptably well with milk (i don't think any sort of citrus fruit or pineapples would be very tasty, but who knows). if you can be bothered to slice the fruit, same approach of sauté and then pour batter on top works, if you don't want pieces but flavour (or the fruit is unsuitable for slicing like most berries), mix them directly into the batter

and if none of that appeals, once the pancakes are done, you can put so many things on top of them. jam is sometimes neat, as long as you have some with relatively little added sugar, otherwise it gets too sticky-sweet. applesauce is neat, too, as applesauce always is. any sort of fruit compote, though personally, i'm particular to cherry or apricot. sugar and lemon juice, if you want something a bit more simple. cream cheese or creme fraiche with either sugar or some sort of barbecue/grill spice is very tasty, too. basically, if the pancakes are already done, you can treat them like a rather strange slice of bread and just pile things on top of them that appeal. i'd advise against using butter for non-floofy types of pancakes or if you eat them cold, but that's a matter of taste

and the best thing is, you can just raid your kitchen for stuff that seems fun to add to pancakes, and then make a ton of tiny experimental pancakes to see what does and doesn't work, and then you get to eat so many different things that are still the same, so you get all the joy of discovering new foods while still having a back-up plan in case the new food doesn't appeal