Pancakes taste better when they're pink

Pink Pancakes Mary Elizabeth Williams

In "Quick & Dirty," Salon Food's Mary Elizabeth Williams serves up simplified recipes and shortcuts for exhausted cooks just like you — because quick and dirty should still be delicious.

"Soft foods only for the first several days," the oral surgeon advised. "Smoothies. Yogurt. And when you're ready, pancakes."

My daughter groaned a long, still-doped-to-the-gills groan. "Ohhhhh," she slurred, "I lovvvvve pancakes. My mom makes me pancakes."