Apple Ring Pancakes

As I was looking through blogs this morning, I came across one titled “Apple Fritter Rings”.  I really liked the concept she brought out of changing up her recipe to make apple ring pancakes.  These looked so yummy that I instantly fired up the griddle and got to work making some for my husband and I. These were amazingly, good!  As my husband would say....."It's a Keeper".  I must have used a thinner batter because mine did not look like the ones she made.    She stated to use your own pancake batter to dip your apple slices in.  I used one of my favorites, an IHOP Waffle, copy cat recipe, tweaked just a little.

By cutting my apple slices at 3/8” thick, I was able to get 11 battered slices from one apple…..a perfect fit for my griddle.  And no, to those of you who know me to be a perfectionist, I did not measure each and every slice.  I actually eyeballed my slices and as an after thought, I measured the thickness of my slices so others wanting to make the recipe wouldn’t need to wonder how thick of slices to use.

When my husband first sat down at the table, he noticed that our pancakes were much smaller than usual but didn’t have a clue there were apple slices inside of each pancake.  We ate ours with the usual butter and syrup.  You really should try making some for you and your family….they were a really good twist to an ordinary pancake.

Me, Myself and I

I am not a photo person.  Very rarely am I in front of a camera.  I mean, hardly ever.  I’ve been trying to be better about this and I’ve even posted a few pictures of myself on my last few blogs.  My family is always complaining that I’m never in any pictures.  Back in July, I let my daughter take a picture of me at Fall Creek, sitting on a log and then she went and posted it on her blog…………ugh!  Ok, so I really am going to try to get better at this picture thingy.  Today I took some “Selfies”…..one before makeup and two after makeup.  You wish…..you are not going to see the before picture, but I am willing to post the after pictures.  They are pretty close in likeness but in the bottom one, I am actually smiling a little more.  I hope my children and sisters read this blog and appreciate the difficulty it took to post it.  Close-ups, even………….

Dehydrating Carrots

On Saturday, hubby and I went to work peeling, slicing, and dehydrating carrots.  My husband pulled and peeled the carrots and I washed, cut off tops, sliced and loaded the dehydrating machine.  I have a Moulinex “Kitchen Works” ultimate food slicing/grinding machine that I received many years ago (before marriage) from hosting a Tupperware party at my parents home.  It sure makes my slicing task much easier.  This machine is so wonderful that I actually purchased another one on E-Bay last year….just to have on hand.

Loading trays of carrots….

Starting to load dehydrator…………….

When all trays were loaded and ready for the dehydrating process, we had a total of twelve trays.

We set the timer for 3 hours and the temperature at 150 degrees.  After three hours, the carrots were not quite dry so we set the dehydrator to run for another hour.  After the four hour drying process, we ended up with tiny, shriveled carrots………just right for adding to soups, stews, and casseroles.  A perfect solution for those cold winter days soon to be upon us.

Grandbabies…Little Angels From Heaven

On September 20th, my daughter, her husband and their precious little boy came to our home for a week-end visit.  Grandbabies….who would have known until experiencing for yourself what joy they bring to your heart.  Yes indeed….little angels straight from Heaven.

This is a picture of my daughter and her husband.  You can’t see their little boy in this picture, but he is there, just starting his journey, approximately one month old in the womb.

A few weeks previous to their visit, my husband and I went out to our quonset hut and got out the old stroller that my daughter had as a baby, given as a gift by her great-grandmother.  After sitting there for many years, lets just say it was a LITTLE DIRTY!  I scrubbed and sanitized the stroller, took it apart and cleaned the little seat and our 32 year stroller was ready to go for our baby grandson. 

Our plans were to take the stroller to the Mackay BBQ so we wouldn’t need to pack our baby boy around the entire time.  He loves the outdoors.  That morning, a few hours before the BBQ, my daughter and I went to a few yard sales and it was there that I decided we needed something to hook to the stroller to carry diapers, baby bottle,  baby stuff, wallet, camera, etc.  I thought why not buy a pair of jeans, cut off the legs and sew across the bottom to make a bag and use straps made from the legs to make handles to tie to the stroller.  It worked like a charm…..problem solved.  We also took it with us when we went for a walk down our lane behind our home.

 

Oh, and yes, there is a feather sticking out behind our sleepy boys head…..compliments of my husband.

I looked for over two hours today going through packages, photo stacks and boxes trying to find a photo of my oldest daughter in her stroller but was unable to do so.  I know I have one, somewhere.  I’m really thinking that I need to get organized and get all my photos scanned and put on disks. 

I did, however, find a picture of her younger sister in the same stroller approximately 28 years ago, back when things were built to last.

This stroller has had a lot of miles put on it and it’s still going strong.