Well, I may not have made pancakes on Pancake Tuesday but I've made them twice since. I use Paul's perfect pancake recipe, which was passed on to him by his grandmother. I also made it for him instead of regular cake for his birthday.

 This is what we do when it is just the two of us:

(It's really easy to multiply this recipe, though.)

1 cup flour
1 tbsp baking powder
a pinch of salt 

1 cup milk
1 egg
1 tbsp sugar (I go to the bag of dark brown sugar and find a tbsp-sized clump)

 approx 2 tbsp butter.

 Mix first three ingredients in a bowl until fully blended and as few lumps of baking powder remain as possible.

Mix second three ingredients in a separate bowl until fully blended- and as few lumps of sugar remain as possible- though biting into a lump of sugar is not the same as biting into a lump of baking powder.

 Melt the butter in a pan, pour about 1/3 of the melted butter into the bowl with the second three (wet) ingredients and mix it up quickly before little bits of butter congeal. Pour another 1/3 into a cup or small bowl for later and leave the rest in the pan- turn the burner under the pan to low-medium.

 Mix the wet and dry ingredients together, but don't over-mix, just until blended, it should be a little lumpy.

 Use the cup-measure to pour batter into the pan, it should make about 4 large pancakes. I make them two at a time and use the leftover butter for the second batch.

 Of course, you can substitute buttermilk for the milk. Once we tried blueberry huslanka. Kefir would probably be fine, too. I have also used half milk and half yogurt.

In an effort to recreate Happy Pancakes I have also made chocolate chip funfetti pancakes (with chocolate chips and coloured sprinkles added after the wet and dry ingredients have been mixed together) which Lily loved but Paul wasn't crazy about. Today we had a banana that needed to be used so I mashed it up and mixed it in with the wet ingredients. I wanted to make Ponnukokur, something else Paul's grandmother used to make, but he warned me they might be tricky. Speaking of Happy Pancakes- really called Winter of the Witch, I will say that I completely identify with Scott Murdock in the article. My brother and I had the same gr 1/2 teacher and we both remembered her showing us the movie, so we knew we weren't nuts. When I found the article and the website, I immediately posted it to facebook and a few childhood friends also responded. It was a very affirming experience. What's really cool is that the film was shot by an NYU student on a shoestring budget and only a stone's throw from where my mother grew up. Also, it was shot in 1966, is there any chance, ANY CHANCE AT ALL, that the filmmakers weren't trying to make a drug reference??? And this is what we watched in our small tow n elementary school. Hahaha. Puff Mama has recipes but none for pancakes. However, why not substitute cannabutter for butter?