Pancakes make a great weekend breakfast or lunch. Kids can help measure and stir the ingredients, and even help flip them with an adult’s help. Try making pancakes in the shape of a child’s initial.

1. Mix the flour, salt and baking powder together.
   
   
2. Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients. Add the oil, eggs and milk.
   
   
3. Stir the ingredients together, but do not over-mix. The batter should still be lumpy.
   
   
4. Heat a small amount of oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Drop about ¼ cup of batter into the pan.
   
   
5. When bubbles form around the edge of the pancake, flip it over. Cook until the other side is golden brown. You can put cooked pancakes on a plate in a warm oven until you have enough for everyone, or eat them right away.
   
6. Serve with syrup and butter or jam. If you are lucky enough to live somewhere where you can pick your own cranberries, nothing makes a better pancake topping than homemade cranberry sauce (next).