What we had for dinner last night

I found this recipe on rtheyallyours.blogspot.com.  I substituted garbanzo/fava bean flour for pinto flour and oat flour for the quinoa.  I have no patience for cooking pancakes, so I poured the batter into a greased 10x15" cookie sheet and baked it at 375 for about 25 minutes.  They were great!!  Everyone loved them.

Pumpkin Pancakes

Ingredients4 tsp cider vinegar
3 1/2 cups milk
3/4 cup pinto bean flour
2 1/4 cup quinoa flour
2 tsp allspice
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup brown sugar
4 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 cups pumpkin puree

Directions

Step 1. Combine vinegar and milk and let sit for ten minutes, until milk is curdled.

Step 2. Mix all the dry ingredients in a medium-sized bowl.

Step 3. Mix all the wet ingredients in a large bowl, including the milk mixture.

Step 4. Pour the flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture and mix well.

Step 5. Butter a skillet and pour on 1/4 cup portions. Cook until browned on each side. Pancakes will be moist in the center.

I'm having a great day!

Today is my birthday!  My children made me a birthday video, complete with music, which they showed me first thing this morning (to justify why they had to stay up very late last night working on it).  Madeline gave me some cute ladybug thumbtacks and notepad.  Scott gave me a Zune.  This is actually my 2nd Zune, but Madeline confiscated my first one after explaining to me that I didn't need it as much as someone who was going to junior high.. 

This past weekend, we drove to Leavenworth to buy apples.  It's become a somewhat annual tradition.  The Honeycrips apples are so good, and 99 cents/lb.  I have a great recipe for apple butter, which is what I'll do with a lot of these.

Austin's Skate Montage

The Perfect Saturday

Scott took Austin to "The Muk" today.  He's been begging to go for weeks, since a friend at school told him about this skatepark in Mukilteo.  Here is the raw footage.  It goes without saying that he is very, very proud of this!

This is my first post!

This is a first!  I am setting up my very own blog, without any tech help from my children!  If they knew what I was doing, they would be standing over me, campaigning for their personal favorite backgrounds, etc. and disparaging their siblings' choices.