Category: San Luis Obispo

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Crumpets or English Muffins are delicious with butter and jam

crumpets
Crumpets or what we call English Muffins is an easy and fun treat to make! CLICK on the picture for my recipe

Frankly, I don’t know anyone who makes crumpets or English muffins from scratch… and I do know a lot of folks who cook! Naturally, I thought with so many English folks raving about their own crumpets that there must be something special going on….. and my investigation said there was!

Wikipedia says the following:

“Crumpets may have been an Anglo-Saxon invention.In early times, they were hard pancakes cooked on a griddle, rather than the soft and spongy crumpets of the Victorian era which were made with yeast. The crumpet-makers of the Midlands and London developed the characteristic holes, by adding extra baking powder to the yeast dough. The term itself may refer to a crumpled or curled-up cake, or have Celtic origins relating to the Breton krampoez meaning a “thin, flat cake” and the Welsh crempog or crempot , a type of pancake. However, since many English words share a heritage with other languages, it may be cognate with the similar German word krumm (from Middle High German krump, krum) which means “bent”.“

In any event, it is a wonderful snack , toasted in the toaster and then smothered with butter and jam! For me it is perfect with a cup of coffee!   CLICK here for our recipe

Roger

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holiday cookin’ and fun

Some -- but hardly -- all of the fun foods we will be cooking this holiday season! CLICK on the picture for our abridged family favorite foods!

Laura passed an article to me that I found a little sad. It had to do with the tendency of young women to lose contact with their poor ol dads. After reflecting on it a bit I realized that this is probably true of all people who lose common interests. Fortunately, all of my daughters are foodies and cooking is what we do together! It isn’t too unusual for them to give me a call and say, “Dad, you left something out of this recipe… what is it?” or “How do we make (this or that) again?” I feel fortunate.

As long as they enjoy cooking… we’ll be in contact!  😉

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dumping the local newspaper

dumping the local newspaper

I made a rather crude graph, but it does make a startling comparison between the growth statistics in the U.S. population and the falling circulation rates of our nation’s newspapers. There may be some logical reasons that might explain some of the discrepancy, but if I were guessing, I would say than many local newspapers have worked overtime to lose a great many of their core users…. and attracted few if any young subscribers. Newspaper circulation today is little more than it was in 1940…. what does that tell you?

To be frank, maybe I felt sorry for their pointy heads and kept my subscription going for years… but no more. Our subscription runs out soon… and it’s already not missed.

So, what goes in it’s place on our breakfast table?  2 iPads! I just went out and bought a second one and we now have two. I have to say that although the cost of an iPad would pay for dirty-ink-on-the-fingers copies of the local rag for a number of years… this newspaper has nothing for me.  Plus, I will not miss the aggravation.

I feel more relaxed already!

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New Fronteris health food store in san luis obispo

at the opening of New Fronteirs in San Luis Obispo

 Karla has loved to shop at New Frontiers Market in San Luis Obispo… forever. She was very pleased when they built their new store very close to where we live and she wanted to bring her camera to celebrate the moment! Karla is holding a package of ‘Gogi Berries’… which as far as I can tell sontain some ‘charmed properties’ in Karla’s opinion… but they look like dried raisins to me with a lot less pulp. Karla wanted to take a picture of me… well… filling a bag up with steel cut oats. Health foods stores are great places to buy quality food… but usually not great prices. The steel cut oats at around $1.69 or so a pound are well worth the trip!

Oh yes, they have a nice take out sushi bar inside!