To start off the day with some homemade breakfast! Blueberry lemon pancake! I make pancakes once in a while, usually Saturday/ Sunday morning. Unfortunately, it was never perfect. Either too thick or too thin, but today, I think I found the perfect ratio! Very fluffy and it tastes amazing.
Ingredients
1.5 Cup All purpose Flour
2.5 Tsp Baking Powder
3/4 Tsp Salt
1.5 Cup Buttermilk (Substitute: Milk + 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, let it sit for 5 minutes)
3 Tbsp Butter
1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
1 Large Egg
1/2 Cup Blueberry
1 Lemon Zest
1. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt.
2. Mix the egg, buttermilk, butter and vanilla extract in a separate bowl.
3. Then, add the liquid mixture to the flour mixture, do not beat. Mix it gently, and if there's lumps of flour, it is okay. It will dissolve when you cook the pancake.
4. Add the blueberry and lemon zest. Cook with butter. (It makes the pancake coated with butter perfectly, with a little crust on the outside, and really soft inside.)
Serve with maple syrup. (It is just sooooooo much better than corn syrup)
Perfecto!~
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Today is Bruin's day! This is the day when all the prospective freshmen come to UCLA, and tour around to see if they like the campus. I am a graduate student mentor at the undergraduate research center, so we have a booth for undergraduate research, and we are there to answer questions they might have about getting into research at UCLA. Basically, our job is try to tell them our school is better than the other schools, at least in terms of undergraduate research opportunities.
A lot of students came by the booth and they all seemed to be very interested in getting into research. A lot of them are torn between going to Cal or UCLA. My "job" was to convince them that UCLA is a better choice. Most of them are pre-med (I hate pre-med..... we can talk about this later), and UCLA has a medical school whereas Berkeley doesn't, so UCLA is a better choice for most of them. But to be perfectly honest, I would definitely pick Berkeley, although both schools are going to provide them with equally excellent education. Berkeley just has a bigger name. When people hear that you went to Berkeley, they all go "wow!" and when they hear that you went to UCLA, they are like "cool, it's a great school". I hate to say it, but it DOES matter.
It ended at around 3:30, so half of my day was gone. Kinda tired from all the talking today (especially when you are saying the same thing over and over again), probably will stay home and chill tomorrow before Monday ( If Monday has a face, I would punch it.) Have a good rest of the weekend!