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Recipe Time! Francakes (French Toast Pancakes)
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It gets your body going and gives you energy to get your day started. During the week breakfast is usually cereal, toast, oatmeal, a bagel, or a smoothie. But come the weekend, breakfast gets to be a bit fancier. On Sundays Erik and I usually make either French toast or pancakes for breakfast (okay, and also occasionally crepes or waffles, but they’re not relevant to this post). One day we had the genius idea – what would happen if we combined them in to one mega-breakfast food? And thus, Francakes were born. A wonderful combination of French toast and pancakes. Light and fluffy like a pancake, yet cinnamon-y like French toast. The best part is if you know how to make French toast (which you should), and how to make pancakes, you can most certainly easily make Francakes.
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Recipe Time! Cinnamon Toast Crunch Fried Ice Cream
My first experience with fried ice cream was at a Mexican restaurant, which my friends and I stopped at after seeing a movie one night. I was instantly intrigued by this contradictory dessert. Warm, crisp fried shell on the outside, cold, creamy ice cream on the inside; it was wonderful. However, I realize some of you, Erik included, had a different first experience with fried ice cream. You first had it at a Japanese or other Asian restaurant, with a tempura based batter as the shell. So where did fried ice cream come from? No one can really seem to agree. Its origins go back further than one would originally think, with two fried ice cream origin stories placing its invention in America in the mid-1890s. In the 1960s it started being associated with Japanese cuisine, and then later becoming associated with Mexican fare in the 1980s. In the end, I don’t think it really matters that much where it came from…what’s important is that it’s delicious!
The Snack Report: Reese’s Peanut Butter Oreos
When it comes to licensing brand names to things, obviously Oreo is no stranger to the game. Oreos has lent itself into candy bars, cereal, ice cream, and lots of other random products that made use of its formula and name. On the other side of the spectrum is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, which has also licensed itself out. Its sidequests include cookies, cereal, ice cream, and lots of other random products. Holy shit! It’s like they’re connected!
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The Cereal Report: Jif Peanut Butter Cereal
The Cereal Report is a column in which PCFG conducts various cereal reviews, of new or limited products, as well as providing brief backgrounds on the cereal. Cereal is delicious and fairly cheap as far as meals go. Everyone should eat cereal!
I’ve covered peanut butter cereal before, and as mentioned I am an ardent fan of peanut butter. I eat it on ice cream, in milkshakes, on toast, on pancakes, you name it. So this one took me by surprised when I went into the supermarket for a routine visit, last week:
The Snack Report: Chips Ahoy! Oreo Crème Filled Cookies
While at the grocery store the other day, picking up ingredients for dinner Erik and I stumbled upon an end cap of Chips Ahoy! cookies. Included were Oreo crème filled, and birthday frosting filled chewy Chips Ahoy! Intrigued by all things new in the cookie world, we knew we had to check these out. First up for trial, the Oreo crème filled cookies.
The Poor Couple's Food Guide 
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