Joshua Kennon

I came across these rainbow pancakes when reading the blogs and thought it was a really cool idea. Of course, the fact that it reminds me of either a Christian Bible Camp or a gay pride parade is funny. There's nothing like a little dichotomy with breakfast (although I suppose the dichotomy itself may be a construct of Western Civilization but I've got better things to think about right now - like figuring out whether a 3% expense cap for a fund is too high until we reach $15 million in assets).

I happened to be sitting at the dining room table, a cup of coffee in one hand, writing out plans for potentially launching a mutual fund this year (this time around, it’s a Parker Duofold rollerball in an amber check pattern from the recent shipment of fine writing instruments we received at Kennon Home Accessories and its retail store, Kennon & Company).  As I was mulling over some ideas in my head, I happened to be reading the blogs, which is my customary morning routine that began back in the day when I had to consolidate a lot of information to share with my readers at Investing for Beginners at About.com.  Somewhere after the op-ed page in The Wall Street Journal and seeing that General Electric was at $16.68 and Berkshire Hathaway Class B at $74.36 per share, I came across a page about a Christian mom that baked rainbow pancakes for her children.

First, this is really cool.  The idea of a mom taking the time to do this for her children is awesome.  As a grown adult, though, I had to laugh because the first thing I thought when I laid eyes on the rainbow pancakes was one of three things

1. This is the most Christian breakfast ever, complete with Noah and the Ark action figures, or
2. Toucan Sam has expanded from Fruit Loops to other breakfast foods.  I need to get the Kellogg’s annual report again (last I knew, we owned a few hundred shares in our blue chip reserve portfolio so I could monitor it, along with a few dozen other companies), or
3. This is the gayest, most rainbow-fabulous breakfast that has ever been created.  Like, rainbows and unicorns are going to burst out from the center when you put a fork in the stack of rainbow pancakes, a disco ball will lower from the ceiling, and you’re going to hear Daft Punk’s “One More Time” start blaring at 100 decibels.

This was funnier because Aaron came upstairs to talk to me about something and, upon seeing the rainbow pancakes, said he would have loved to have those as a kids because kids love color. So, in addition to our Julia Child Beef Bourguignon dinners, gourmet red wine chili, and chicken in cream sauce over rice (another Julia Child favorite), I think there’s a real possibility that there will be rainbow pancakes for breakfast one of these days just for the novelty of it.  Maybe we can have my niece over because this seems like something Kelsey would want to do.

The original author of the rainbow pancakes is at a blog called i am mommy.  She said she used this recipe to bake the rainbow pancakes, just added food coloring.  She has a lot more great pictures at her site so if you are interested, head on over there and check it out for more details.