Colonial Corn Cakes

Last week for Activity Days Emma’s group talked about President George Washington.  They made “hoe cakes” to get a taste of breakfast from colonial times.  Apparently Mr. Washington’s favorite breakfast was these hoe cakes with honey and butter on them.  Emma made them for us on Saturday, and woke up early today so she would have time to help making them again. A big hit at our house, they’re sort of like corn based crepes. I’m planning to keep this recipe handy because it’s a good one for using with ingredients I have in my food storage too.

Hoe Cakes

1 Cup cornmeal

1 Cup flour

1/2 tsp. salt

2 cups hot milk

4 Tbsp. honey

2 beaten eggs

Mix together the cornmeal, flour, and salt. Heat the milk until it just begins to boil (steam appears). Pour it in the dry misture. Add the honey and eggs. Stir just until the ingredients are wet. Spoon batter onto a hot, oiled griddle. Turn to brown both sides. We topped ours with butter, honey or maple syrup. So yummy!

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Yo-Ho Yo-Ho

Nana and Papa gave Hannah this cute pirate dress up and she was so excited to wear it to Disneyland.  It was the coolest thing ever to go on Pirates of the Caribbean dressed as a pirate!

This is from a trip we took in January, but I just had to share this cute photo.

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Disney Sunday Movies

Remember the 80’s Disney live action classics? My siblings and I loved the Sunday night movies (Like The BRAT Patrol). We would tape them from TV onto a VHS tape and watch them over and over. I still remember that we would all yell, “pause!” when the commercials came on, and “play!” when the movie was back. If we pushed the buttons on the VCR at just the right time we could get the tape with no commercials and not miss any dialogue when the movie started up again.

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Mr. Boogedy was one of our favorites:

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Fish Out of Water

Having recently returned from a trip to Utah, where it was so freezing, we found ourselves surprised by some of these things that were once so commonplace:

Our glasses fogging up when we walked into a warm room from outside.

A layer of salt on the car. I’ve never seen this slogan on a car wash sign here:  A car wash a day keeps the salt away!

Scraping windshields.

Dirty, wet shoes piled up near the front door.

Warming up the car so it’s a decent temperature inside for driving around town.

When kids pass a pile of snow, they have to step in it!

Using the windshield wiper fluid and getting yourself a windshield covered with a thin layer of ice.

Hearing, “Mom, I can’t eat any more dinner, I ate too much snow.”

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A Valentine

Happy Valentines Day!

For my sweetheart on the one day a year that I cave in to being cheesy:

Will you be my Valentine?
I know that I am yours.
You are like a tossing sea
And I am like your shores.

You are like an endless wave
And I your waiting sand.
And I will wait forever as
You come and smooth my hand.

I will wait forever, yet
You are a part of me.
I hold you in my arms, while you
Come to me endlessly.

Will you be my Valentine?
I know that I am yours.
I love you with a love that yearns
To be your golden shores.

-by Daniel Rowe

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