Flipping marvellous: Yotam Ottolenghi on the joy of simple breakfasts – plus six exclusive recipes

Weekend mornings are for family – and whoever happens to be over.

Forget fussing and focus on just one big lovely thing for the middle of the table.

Here’s how Family life has had a bigger impact on how I cook at home than almost anything else.

There’s a lot of pasta on the menu these days, and potato wedges with different sauces.

A lot of meatballs.

And a great many pancakes – more than I would have ever predicted before I had kids.

My weekend pancakes – which made their way into my book Simple Too – are supposed to be a batch-cooking exercise: lots made on Sunday, then reheated through the week, in the toaster or a dry pan on the stove, so breakfast is more or less solved until Friday.

That’s the theory.

In practice, all 22 pancakes the recipe makes are gone by Sunday lunch – eaten by the boys, their friends, or whoever happens to be over for breakfast.

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