About Shaye

I am…

Shaye.
Married to Steve and mom to 8 1/2 year old Simon.
Thirty-something, creative, left-brained list maker.
A dieting foodie.
An aspiring hostess-with-the-most-est.

I’m becoming more crunchy granola as the years go along. We’ve been pseudo-vegetarians for several years now. By that I mean we probably only eat meat once or twice a week. (I’ve heard others call it flexitarianism, but who really knows what that means.)

By now I do everything I can to ensure that my family eats as healthily as we can. I follow a lot of Michael Pollan’s food ideals. We avoid high fructose corn syrup, anything with more than five ingredients or ingredients that I can’t pronounce, and anything that my great-grandma wouldn’t recognize as food. I try to work with fresh produce and whole grains as much as possible, but I’m a stay-at-home-mom who is married to a public school teacher so there are times we have to cut corners and do the best we can.

I have several top rated recipes on a prominent recipe site, although I posted some before I started on my healthy foods bent. I take pictures, but I haven’t outsmarted Photoshop so what you see is what you get.
The name of my blog comes from a running joke about a product called “The Perfect Pancake”. I’m sure you’ve seen the commercial–it involved all of those poor people who were too stupid to make pancakes the old fashioned way with a regular pan and a spatula. All of the commercial people needed “The Perfect Pancake” pan before they could make their first pancake without either being covered in batter or burning the house down. I learned to make pancakes by the time I was eight years old, and even if I sometimes feel like I have nothing else going for me–I am still smarter than pancakes!