Spaghetti with Meat Sauce from Apples for Jam

It was pretty good, different, but good. I'll probably have the leftovers for lunch today.

Giant Puffy Pancake

Last night I made this giant apple puffy pancake for dinner. I'm lactose intolerant so I had to alter the recpie a bit, but it still turned out rather well!

Apple Puffed Pancake for the Lactose Intolerant

6 eggs
1 ½ cups soy milk
1 cup flour
3 Tbls sugar
1 tsp vanilla
½ tsp salt
½ tsp cinnamon
1 Tbls margarine
2 apples peeled & chopped
3 Tbls brown sugar

Preheat oven to 425. In a blender or large bowl, mix eggs, milk, flour, sugar, vanilla, salt and cinnamon until well blended. Melt margarine in a 9×13” pan in oven, add apple slices to baking dish and return to oven until butter sizzles, do not let it brown. Remove dish from oven and immediately pour batter over apples. Sprinkle with brown sugar and bake for 20 minutes or until puffed and brown, Serve immediately.



We did think that it wasn't quite sweet enough for us so next time I think I'll toss the apple bits in some cinnamon sugar and also use vanilla soy milk in place of regular (Thanks Marie for that tip!).

The kids ate it though, well one of them did, my 3-year-old has been super picky lately and she's not eating much. Hubs and I liked it though!!

science

Something else I did when I was younger was a lot of easy at home science experiments. One of my favorite ones was putting white flowers in colored water and watching the flower change color as it drank.

Yesterday I could not find any white flowers but we had celery, so I figured that would do in a pinch. The kids had a ball picking out what colors they wanted to use and I explained to them that the celery would drink up the water through the little tubes on the bottom of the stalk and the leaves would change colors.

They didn't believe me.

Here is our celery this morning:



This is a really fun and easy thing to do with kids, especially since it doesn't involve anything dangerous/hot/etc.

All you need is a leafy stalk of celery, some drinking glasses, cool water and food coloring!

Flower Pressing

I used to do this every year. Of course I said "used to" because for the last several years of my life I feel like I've been rushing.

I need to stop.





So today it was 60 degrees and sunny (yesterday it had snowed!) so while my oldest was at school my 3-year-old and I went outside to collect flowers to press. She did really well, although she really wants to get to the "make stuff with them" part right now hopefully in a couple weeks she'll still be into it.



I regret not having pressed any flowers from when we lived in New Mexico. I try not to keep a running tally of them (my regrets) but lately it seems to be all I've been thinking about.

wow

I'm a poor blogger.

The most important piece of news is that: I'm still pregnant!



Knitting for the little one, I'm planning on dying this as soon as I settle on a color. I'm leaning towards green. The ultrasound tech was 80% sure that the baby is a girl, but there's still that 20% chance that it's a boy!