{"id":622,"date":"2005-04-11T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-11T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=622"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"the-headache-and-pancakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/the-headache-and-pancakes\/","title":{"rendered":"The headache (and pancakes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another nice day, but today was not.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning I made some vegan blueberry pancakes (never intended to go vegan, the recipe was just easy and I thought I&#8217;d try it) and Morningstar Farm sausages (which are vegetarian, but not vegan).<\/p>\n<p>The pancakes weren&#8217;t bad, but were pretty thick, the recipe was from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatfree.com\/recipes\/breakfast\/blueberry-pancakes\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 c Whole wheat flour (I didn&#8217;t have whole wheat flour, I used white)<br \/>\n1 t Baking powder<br \/>\n1\/4 t Salt<br \/>\n1\/4 t Baking soda<br \/>\n1 T Sugar if blueberries are unsweetened<br \/>\n1\/2 c Soymilk or rice milk (I used soy milk)<br \/>\n1\/2 c Canned blueberries w\/juice (I used thawed frozen bluberries w\/ juice)<\/p>\n<p>Mix the dry ingredients togther; then mix in the soymilk and the blueberries. If the batter is too thick, mix in more blueberry juice until it is the right consistency. Cook in a nonstick pan until they look edible. They will be very blue!<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have extra blueberry juice, so I just added a little more soy milk to get it to a thinner consistancy.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe says it will make 6 pancakes, but for me it only made 5 (using 1\/4 cup scoops), but this is still a decent breakfast for two. I topped the vegan pancakes with vegan &#8220;Soy Garden&#8221; butter-like spread and syrup.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/vegan_blueberry_pankcakes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/housekeeping\/vegan_blueberry_pankcakes_sm.jpg\" alt=\"pancake breakfast\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I spent nearly 4 hours in the flower garden doing weeding, and managed to get a little sunburned on my face and arms, oops.<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time in the afternoon working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallaceandgromit.net\">wallaceandgromit.net<\/a> and catching up on email. In the evening we had dinner and watched a few more episodes of Carnivale. <\/p>\n<p>Around 10pm I started getting a headache, took some Advil and went to bed.<lj-cut><\/p>\n<p>I woke up this morning at 3:38, got out of bed to go to the bathroom and my head was spinning. I took a few more Advils and went to bed.<\/p>\n<p>At 6:18 I my head was still killing me, I got out of bed and called out sick to work. I took a few more Advil and went back to bed.<\/p>\n<p>At 9:30 I woke up feeling slightly better and hungry so I ate some banana bread and watched a couple episodes of Gummi Bears.<\/p>\n<p>By 10 I was feeling yucky again and went back to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Michael shut the bedroom door before he left to go into work for a couple hours, and I slept the rest of the morning away.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1:30 I crawled out of bed feeling mostly better. I ate some lunch and took some more advil to make the remaining bit of my headache go away.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be gone now, but man, I haven&#8217;t had one of those in a long time.<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another nice day, but today was not. Sunday morning I made some vegan blueberry pancakes (never intended to go vegan, the recipe was just easy and I thought I&#8217;d try it) and Morningstar Farm sausages (which are vegetarian, but not vegan). The pancakes weren&#8217;t bad, but were pretty thick, the recipe was from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}