Brown Sugar Oatmeal Apple Pancakes

I know, this is not a very good picture depicting pancakes, but it wasn’t until after I made my breakfast this morning and had covered my pancakes with syrup and eggs that I decided to write a post about these delicious pancakes.  And I might add, the word delicious is putting it mildly. 

These are always my go-to family/company pancakes.  I have yet to serve these without someone asking for the recipe.  I originally got the RECIPE, many years ago, from a Taste of Home magazine and it is now available on the internet.  To take these pancakes one step further, making them “Over-the-Top” Brown Sugar Oatmeal Apple Pancakes,  I add 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon and 1 thinly sliced and diced apple (I use Gala apples).  To peel and slice my apples, I use an Apple/Peeler/Corer/Slicer.  I then slice my peeled apple stack into 8th’s.  Per approximate 1/4 cup batter, you will get 9 pancakes.  I occasionally make these on the weekends, and I always double the recipe, keeping the left-overs in the fridge.  We eat them for breakfast almost every morning during the week, until they are gone.   They re-heat really well in the microwave, making breakfast a snap on busy mornings.

BROWN SUGAR OATMEAL APPLE PANCAKES

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup wheat flour
1/2 cup white flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt (I use sea salt)
1-1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/3 cup packed, brown sugar
1 cup buttermilk
1 egg, beaten
2 T. vegetable oil
1/2 cup plus 2 T. quick-cooking oats
1 sliced/diced apple
DIRECTIONS:
In a large mixing bowl, combine and mix together the flours, soda, salt, cinnamon and br. sugar.  To the flour mixture, add buttermilk, egg, and oil, then mix until combined.  Stir in oats and apple slices.  Pour by 1/4 cupfuls onto a lightly greased, hot griddle.  When bubbles form on top, flip pancakes over and cook the other side until a nice, golden brown.
**You will need to watch these your first time around because they do not bubble on top as much as regular pancakes.

Muddy Driveway MESS!

Our driveway went from this, the first part of November….

To this……………


In the mornings, it’s not too bad, but as soon as the sun comes out and thaws the ground, it turns into a muddy, mucky mess.  If I need to go somewhere later in the day, I glop out to the car in my muck boots then change to my shoes once I get to the car.  I have the feeling that Spring isn’t going to be so great, this year.
When it all dries out, our plans are to scrape it smooth and have some gravel brought in.  Come on Mr. Sun…..do your thing!

Time Out For Women – 2016 – Layton Utah

I spent my Friday and Saturday at Layton, Utah, this past weekend,  at the Davis Conference Center with my sister and two daughters.  We attended “Time Out For Women”……..an event full of laughter, tears, music, cheering,  entertainment, and inspiration.  The conference center is packed full of women, and it is all GOOD.  I think the male species would even enjoy being there. 
We have attended these events for four years……….2012, 2013, (skipped 2014 – grandbaby) 2015, and 2016.  We attended 2012, and 2013 in Idaho Falls and the past two years we’ve traveled to Layton, Utah.  The entire event, including our hotel room cost each of us $99……money well worth spent.  We did, however, buy our evening meal the night before, breakfast was provided by the hotel then we purchased our lunch the following day for the cost of $10 at the conference center.  We got a sandwich or salad that included a cookie, potato chips and a drink.
Every single presenter was absolutely exceptional.  These were the presenters:

Our Friday evening and Saturday schedule:

Theme for this year:

As long as I am able and conditions allow, I will try to attend at least one of these events each year.  They are held all over the United States……2016 tour schedule:

If opportunity knocks on your door and you get the chance to attend one of these events, TAKE IT!

Grandson Pulling Faces For The Camera

I was over at my daughters home last week and I had my Kindle sitting on the kitchen table.  I turned on the camera and showed it to my 2-year-old grandson when all of a sudden, he started pulling faces at the camera.  My daughter said he had never done that before and we were rolling with laughter.  He would pull a face and then totally laugh at himself.

 

 

 

This last picture (which really wasn’t the last picture….I’ll bet there were over 40 pictures taken of him being silly, but who’s counting, right!) really cracked me up…..especially when you look at his face and then read the caption on his shirt!

And yes……………..pictures are worth a thousand words…..he really is that cute!