Was Your Breakfast as Good as Mine?

This morning we made German apple pancakes. They were GOOD!!!!!!!!! Here is the recipe if you are interested.

German Pancakes with Apples

4 large egg
1 Cup milk
1 Cup flour
3 Tablespoons butter, unsalted
2 peeled and cored apples, I used Yellow Delicious
1 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 Dash nutmeg
1/3 Cup brown sugar

Thinly slice apples.
In large bowl whisk together beaten eggs, milk, flour, vanilla just until blended. Set aside to rest about 20 minutes.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place rack in the middle of oven.
In an oven proof 12 inch skillet, melt 2 tablespoons butter over high heat. Add apples and spices and cook until apples are soft and slightly golden.
Add brown sugar and stir until apples caramelize and are very soft. Add remaining butter and stir.
Very quickly pour bater over apples. Place skillet in oven carefully and bake until pancake is golden brown and puffed. (About 15 minutes)
Serve immediately. Sprinkle with powdered sugar or drizzle with maple syrup if you want.

Don’t you wish your mom would let you cook for school too?

P.S. Maple Sap Newsflash! We filled the 5 gallon container up today. We are working on filling a milk jug now. (Momma said the tree filled it up, not us 🙂 )

It’s That Time Again!

We are starting to collect sap to start syruping again! It is getting pretty warm during the day and chilly at night. So we decided to start again.

Today we drilled the holes (about 2 inches deep), put the taps in and directed it to the buckets. We put tin foil over to keep the bugs out. We watched the sap drip out! Hooray! We checked it about 5:00 and have about a half cup already! I hope it starts going a lot faster.

Now Daddy is going to get longer tubing so we can put them both in one bucket. We need to find another tree to tap it and more buckets to save the sap in.

If you have clean milk containers or clean food grade buckets, please save them for us! I hope to get lots! I hope for enough to last all year and extra to try maple sugar and candy.

Happy Groundhog Day 2011

Happy Groundhog Day! Adrian is my assistant writer today.

I am a ground hog. My name is Punx Phil. I made a tunnel. I sleep all winter. If I see my shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter weather! I don’t want to see my shadow!

Here is what I know about groundhogs (other wise known as woodchucks and whistle pigs–by the way, how much wood would a Woodchuck chuck if a Woodchuck could chuck wood?). Groundhogs are mammals, rodents and true hibernators. They are very  naughty, they stuff themselves before winter. In the winter they have a starvation diet. They come out of their holes, very very very thin.

Ground hogs are ground hogs. They hog the ground! Their dens are big and some parts of their hallways go straight down for 2 to 3 feet. Their tunnels can be up to 50 feet long!

Happy Groundhog’s Day! Do you want “Punx Phil” to see his shadow?

Whether the weather be mild or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot,
We’ll weather the weather whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not.

Fifteen Questions

Instead of a normal book report I decided to do “fifteen questions”.

Who am I thinking of?

  1. He was born in China on January 16, 1902 .
  2. During World War Two the Japanese ordered that there were to be no meetings of over ten people. so he wrote a sermon, invited nine people over and talked about it. then the nine people asked nine more people and they talked about it. and then the nine people asked nine more people and they talked about it. and then …
  3. He helped the hospital at Li Mu Shi, China.
  4. He and he taught school in China.
  5. Got Married to Florence Mackenzie on March 27 1934.
  6. He had three kids.
  7. When he and his family were going to Canada the ship got hit by a U- boat torpedo but did not explode
  8. Rode a bike to different villages in China to tell them about Jesus and to help bring wounded people .

Do you know who he is yet?

  1. Took two men to the hospital on a small cart, on a bumpy road.
  2. He died 21 February 1945 in a Japanese interment camp
  3. He died because of a brain tumor.

Here are some easy ones.

  1. He raced in the 1924 Olympics.
  2. He won the gold medal for the 400 Meter dash!
  3. He would not run on Sunday.
  4. His nick name was “The Flying Scotsman”. Can you tell me why?

I’ll tell you who this person is in a few days.