Pancakes or Banana Bread? How to Choose, How to Make Each One Perfectly

There are two kinds of weekend mornings. The hungry, impatient kind — where you need something hot on the table in 20 minutes. And the slower kind — where the oven is warming and you have nowhere to be.Pancakes belong to the first. Banana bread belongs to the second. Once you know which mood you are in, the recipe chooses itself.Classic Fluffy PancakesA good pancake batter is lumpy, not smooth. If it looks like cream soup, you have overmixed it and the pancakes will be flat and chewy. Lumps are