Mai oui, madame. This is a variation on a Bob’s Red Mill recipe. Bob’s recipe doesn’t include sugar or vanilla and adds oil instead of butter. I think it’s better with my changes.
Cornmeal Pancakes
Ingredients (for two people, cut it in half):
1 cup boiling water (250 mL)
3/4 cup Medium Grind Cornmeal(120 g) (I use Bob’s Red Mill medium)
1 1/4 cups Buttermilk (310 g)
2 Eggs (100 g) (I usually add an extra yolk for richness)
1 1/2 cups unbleached white all-purpose flour(210 g)
1 Tbsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Sea Salt
1/4 tsp
2 TBSP sugar
1/4 cup Vegetable Oil (60 mL) (I use melted butter, cooled, for richer flavor)
1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions:
Bring 1 cup water to a boil. In a large bowl, pour boiling water over cornmeal and stir until thick. Let stand for 5 minutes to cool slightly.
Add in buttermilk, vanilla and eggs and stir until thoroughly combined.
In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
Fold the flour and oil (butter) into the cornmeal mixture and stir to combine.
Preheat a griddle to medium heat. Once hot, portion batter onto griddle using a 1/4 measuring cup. Cook until bubbles form on the surface and the edges begin to set, about 3-4 minutes. Flip and continue to cook on the other side for 2-3 more minutes. Enjoy warm with your favorite toppings. I prefer maple syrup.
I like to fry my cakes in ghee to get the crisp edges to the cakes. You can use butter, but it burns at a lower temperature, so use caution. Or use neither on a non-stick griddle/pan.
I wouldn’t mind another visit to Lisbon or Palma, but Gibraltar is really my favourite place in that corner of the world. Anyway, I doubt I’ll ever get more than sixty miles from the house again, unless something happens to my mother-in-law, sister-in-law or daughter, and we have to make another trip to Philly.
doggio did it!
Nasty disgusting swill. I’ll never understand why anyone who has tasted it once would ever want to do so a second time!
JFTR: I have been drinking back coffee since at least the third grade, maybe earlier.
my wife does not drink coffee. I thought it strange but didn’t try to change her mind. Shortly after we were a serious item, she took me home to meet her family. My mother in law offered me a cup of coffee and the mystery was explained: Florine made maybe the worst coffee I have ever tasted.
FCM, I eagerly await future reports of travels on the Chesapeake.
They are not. Despite this, they’re very oriented to each other.
This year I was at the Buddhist center in California, I’m presenting at a conference, spending a few days in Costa Rica with my sister, and going to Spain. We’ll probably take a few localish overnights while the weather is nice. Probably go see family for brief visits.I’d love to take a cruise, but that will have to wait until the kitties are older and we have someone to hang around the house and sing them Kitty Songs.
GenJ - Your Granny was on to something. Mrs Magill and I will root through all the hams at Costco, looking for the smallest, and it still takes for ever to get through it.
Unfortunately, I was unable to get everything in this weekend, so still only one pierced ear. Maybe next weekend.
I’ve always thought that idea of being on one of those superliners with thousands of people would be like a living hell. There are much smaller ships, like the Viking Line, which wouldn’t be too bad. I’m from Alaska, but have never seen much of the Inside Passage. I could be coaxed into doing that sort of cruise. Maybe.
Monday, Monday, and it’s a gorgeous day: sunny and a high in the low 70s. I shall tak Sir Charles for a walk when I’m done here so he can sniff all the sniffs and returneth unto nature his digested blessings.
Son, wife, and dogs arrived Friday evening. So glad they could come up.
They’re yum, and small enough that one or two won’t kill a diet. On Saturday, son and I went to the special early shopping 1//2 hour at Costco, only to find they let everyone in, so parking was still hard to find. We got quiche, caesar salad, and vegetable soup for Easter dinner. Somehow, my Ham Appreciation Gene has faded out. We have a long-running tradition of fighting to pay. I was sure I’d won, but he got very sneaky. We had a wonderful time together. They left Saturday evening. I’m still finding dog toys in odd places.
Yesterday son, DIL, daughter and I had a family Zoom call. No job yet for daughter, and she’s getting stressed. She and my son have already decided they’re going to take turns staying with me for and after surgery. I really don’t think I’ll need anyone, but they don’t listen to me about that stuff any more. Where did I go wrong?
I’m ooooooold. Several of my former students have become grandparents lately. They’re approaching 50. Soon I’ll go from, “Ohhh yeaahhh, I remember her!” to “Is she still alive?” status.
Travels? I don’t know. I always go back to Chicago for our sibling reunion, but like all of you, I’m concerned about scary high airline prices. I’m also unsure what shape my back will be in.
For the rest, I’ll just travel vicariously. Think of me as a virtual stowaway, MetalMouse. Have a safe, smooth, and delightful trip!
I dreamed last night that a poll showed that almost 60% of US women were furious with Trump over inflation, gas prices, and women’s issues and we were all banding together ahead of the elections. Now there’s a wish fulfillment dream for you!
Taters, I love Glacier AND Yellowstone, so I hope you get to go to both. Have you been to all three parks before? Glacier is a gem, though I have nightmares in which I’m forced to drive a Winnebago on Going to the Sun. And I”m so glad your husband is seeing well again!
To my everlasting shame, I only like the awful, sudsy, popular brands, and then only if I’m eating something beer-friendly. I can’t tolerate IPAs and other types.
I love this and am going to be quoting your granny to my over-hammed friends and family. Sunrise in the forest sounds lovely!
We don’t like the ships that have many more than 2200 - no way I’d go on those beasts that carry 6000+ I would like to tour one of the monsters, just to see it up close.
I was just looking at pics of the bedroom compartments on Amtrak - not bad at all! And I looked at the menus - decent variety, plus they do Coke instead of Pepsi, for the win!!!
I’m about to start printing out everything for our trip. I know it’ll all be on my phone, but paper is quicker and easier for me, and a folder of paper never runs out of battery. Old school, also for the win!!
I don’t do the huge ships, Carnival, or party itineraries. I’ve cruised a lot and most of it has been very pleasant. There are places to hang out on your own or in small venues, and we usually do a couple of shop’s excursions, a couple of days on our own, and a couple of days with privately booked tours.
Lowe’s welcomes dogs as well and, IME, the ladies (and it’s always women) in the paint department keep a stash of treats and will spoil the princess with skritches.
That would be my mother with tea. She was given tea when she was in the hospital as a kid and she always associated it with the pain of an appendectomy. However, she did learn to make iced tea for the family from my paternal grandmother.
I’m more of a lawn mower beer person myself. While I don’t like IPAs, there are a few craft brews I do enjoy.
My summer vacation will likely be going to see my dad in Indiana and hitting the family reunion. Sis has agreed to go with me and since it will be a three day drive with at least three little dogs, one will drive / buy gas and the other will pay for hotels.
Back from getting waterboarded and then paying for the privilege. I pay them first and they bill my insurance, the check will arrive just in time for my next cleaning. They take my purse and hat when I go into the exam room, I’ll try to remember to hold onto my phone for pics of the view on the next visit.
They don’t make me wait long enough to need my screens so I don’t object. There are large blue birds using one of the bird houses and their flowering plum is going all sorts of flower happy. One of their staff members uses company time to refill the bird feeders - it’s gotta be a young one because that’s a steep mountain side.
The drive was beautiful which made up for the extra road construction. Now is the season of the repairs before tourist season.
This was harsher than it should have been and I apologize. It was due to my heartbreak over the fire. I had been saving spending the night at the Grand Canyon for this time of my life and now that opportunity is gone forever.
They might build another hotel up there, but it will be years in the making and won’t be the old historical one I loved so much. I still have my memories of all of the times I walked into the lobby and had a drink at the bar, but making whoopee at the Grand Canyon Motel is forever out of my reach now.
But back to the subject, if you still do choose to drive to the Grand Canyon, may I suggest you go to Williams and take the train? We have ridden motorcycles and cars through the canyon, taken weeks long jeep trips along the north rim of the GC and have taken bus tours and train rides with bus tours.
The second class train tickets from Williams and bus tour with lunch at the Canyon will allow you to see the most in the short amount of time you have. Plus, they take you to places the public can’t access so it isn’t as crowded.
I have no advice about the glass walk despite having been there many times. They have a nice clean parking lot and there are lots of trees and birds and squirrels to watch while waiting for your guests to stop risking their lives and come back to the car. I’ve taken people there seven times and they have all been awestruck, so if you are in that neck of the woods and willing to walk out on a glass floor over the Canyon, I hope you love it too!
What a lucky kitty. You are good people to take her in and love her so much at this stage of her life.
Oh hurray! I remember you buying your boat back when I joined the Mump and have been looking forward to that fraptious day all those years since.
I’m also one of those “if I’m not there early, I’m already late” kinda people too.
We don’t have a small carport (it is actually a RV port, but that looks pretentious) and it is painted red. I don’t drive fast when I’m parking either. I still managed to hit that big ass thing with a car I’ve been driving for years. Ya never know how bad your eyes have become until something smacks you in the face and calls you STOOPID!!!
And you are costing them money every time you visit cause if the workers aren’t petting dawgs, they could be cleaning. Good job, keep it up!
Coors is ick IMHO. Hubs used to brew IPAs that tasted like a good piney joint and worked almost the same. I miss them, you can’t buy beer that good at the store.
LOL! My folks are why I didn’t learn to like coffee until I was in my thirties. Their stove top percolator made good coffee taste burnt just by virtue of the “seasoning”.
Worries with you. I do hope she finds something soon.
Good evening all. Notes have been sent, gym has been sweated, and Dairy Queen provided the evening repast (they make smaller but reasonably tasty burgers there). It allowed me to complete my worksheet, at the beginning of the year I listed all the fast-food places I go to and what I usually order there, and then kept track of the costs. Took me nearly three months to visit them all, but I now know which is the most expensive (Krystals charges $18.79 for 3 doubles w/cheese sliders and a large fry) and which is the cheapest (a regional chain called Jack’s is $9.79 for a Bigger Jack and large fries). Most of the ‘name’ brands are in the $11-$13 range. Hard to pick my favorite burger, 4-5 are in the running, but for french fries 5 Guys is my addictive substance and I am careful not to go there too often.
Tomorrow will be consumed by laundry and general house-irk. Still adding things to my packing list, I do try to keep it under control, but we’ll see how much I end up with.
Seethe away. IIRC your in Argentina, I been through Buenos Aires and spent a day or so in Ushuaia, but never really got to see your country well. Maybe one day…
Dicey , you sailing the Baltic? Hopefully the political situation will have calmed down by then, you’ll really like it.
GenJ, sounds like camping was fun, in a rather macabre way as you describe it. Never have liked or drank coffee and not much for hot tea either. And not sure where you are, but there are night trains from most of the larger US cities and the price of a roomette, while not cheap, is doable. And the dining car is included in the price of a room.
cookie, been on a couple of those big ships, if you can avoid the shops and main ‘avenues’ then it doesn’t seem overcrowded…the damn ship is so big… And an Alaska cruise is recommended, but for the inside passage you will need a ‘smaller’ ship.
I’ll try and keep you in mind. Pictures will go to the Book of Faces eventually. And best wishes to your daughter on her job hunt.
I will drink a light beer now and then when the situation calls for it, but never more than one or two. Anything more alcoholic than that is right out.
FCM, the bedrooms are nice on AMTRAK, would recommend them over a roomette as they are…not expansive.
Ummm…guess what ship I’ll be on in about a week from today…
JtC, would love to see pics of that place. It sounds way to relaxing to be a medical office. And I concur with your recommendation on the train from Williams to the Canyon. Never been there when the glass walk was operating, so don’t know if I would have the nerve to do it or not.
And that’s all for now. Will do some internettin’ and then watch the basketball for awhile before turning in for the night. If I don’t get back for a late-night final, y’all take care.
The menus and the food quality vary considerably from train type and locale to locale. The best menu with steaks, etc is on the long distance trains originating west of the Mississippi. California Zephyr and the Empire Builder. Those are cooked on the train. Some of the trains have the ‘flex’ menu which is basically frozen entrees microwaved on the train. They don’t get the best reviews.
YouTubes by “Grounded Life” train travel are excellent for real life information about meal, accommodations, etc. They have on every possible train travel topic:
Howdy Y’all! We have been RDOS hermits today as predicted. The only outside I managed today was goin’ to the mailbox and haulin’ my and my neighbor’s biiiiiig trash cans all the way back up the driveway to where they stay. I don’t count the back porch as outside because I see it as a part of da cave. We achieved nappage, day drank and fixed and et sup.
Mollie I am sure the cataract surgery will go just fine.
This is exactly the recommendation I hear from everyone I ask too. And I’m sorry that your bucket list hotel burned down. I know that broke the hearts of a lot of us older folks who had various schemes for it.
I’m thinking that I’ll be lucky to make it to Glacier Park on the Empire Builder, at my advanced age and decrepitude. Then I’ll just have to continue on to nellie’s and tater’s. Hmmm, maybe we should just meet there?
Pack an extra charging cord, you never know when one will fail at a bad time.
There are good reasons I’m willing to drive an hour and pay extra to be seen there.
Did I mention that they also offer heated blankets, and your selection of calming scents and background music?
I’ve ridden all three train levels to the Grand Canyon, first class is nice because you are up in the bubble and there are no kids, but the chairs aren’t that comfy and the restrooms, smoking car and bar are down a rather tight flight of spiral stairs.
Steerage is where most of the kids are, but their parents are usually pretty engaged and keep things down to a low roar.
If you have a steerage ticket, you aren’t allowed to go up to second class for a drink at the bar, but you are allowed to go to the smoking car. You have to walk right by the bar and the bartender isn’t checking tickets, they are checking IDs.
Second class has comfy seats and big windows, plus you have access to the bar and smoking car. Its not an Amtrak train, you can smoke weed out on the smoking car if you are willing to take the risk of finding a dozen new friends with empty pipes.
Agreed, they are super cute! The ridges on the carrots show my levels of CDO, LOL!
So I got my new copy of our marriage certificate and something is wrong. It says we got married on January 27th. I have been giving him Happy Anniversary cards on 2/15 because I remember getting married the day after pink candy day. He thinks we got married on the 9th, which is his birthday.
We didn’t have a big thing, we went to Vegas and got married by a drunk Elvis preacher who got arrested for public intoxication before filing the paperwork. We had our big party after we were able to save more money and schedule more time off because we were po’ back then and the 80’s style Honeymoon Suite with the heart shaped bed and satin sheets blew our budget for the month.
So, I’m positive that we were married on 2/15 and even have a framed piece with our wedding date hanging on the bedroom wall. He says he doesn’t care but is sure that we got married on his birthday because that is all he wanted that year.
So, I guess I’m going to have to redo my passport application to change our wedding date to what is on the paper instead of what our lying memories are telling us. It doesn’t matter that much, we don’t do anything to celebrate anyhow.
But that’s the good news, I have a certified copy of a piece of paper that proves the custody transfer from my father to my husband so hopefully I will be allowed to get a passport this year.
Yeah, porches and decks don’t count. Going out to the street is a little iffy, but it can count if needed. I have no plans to leave the house tomorrow either. Well, except to go to the dollar store for a plastic bin.
When we moved in, I put things where I thought they should be. Now, a year and a half later, I’m realizing that most of them are in the wrong places so I need to deal with that. All of my plant stuff is scattered around the house and I have empty shelves in my closet. A few covered bins will keep things organized and clean enough to be allowed close to my covered bins of threads and fabrics.
MetalMouse - we chose bedroom over roomette because of the ensuite terlit. Neither of us wanted to be walking in search of facilities in the middle of the night. Or sharing a shower either. We want our own, dammit!
Our two trains are the Floridian and the Southwest Chief. The one question I need to get answered ahead of time is if we can get Diet Coke on demand between meals. Can’t have my sweetie going thru withdrawal!
Oh my! It’s after 10! Time to mosey to bed - more boat work tomorrow.
I would like to tour one of the monsters, just to see it up close.
