"DANGER! DANGER! BILBO BAGGINS!!"
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I've been looking for a good double griddle on which to make my strawberry pancakes. I stole this idea from a little restaurant in Brattleboro VT! They sandwich fresh strawberries between two layers of pancake. You put the first layer of batter down, very thinly, then put thinly sliced strawberries on it. Then you pour another layer of batter over the strawberries, flipping when the first side is done. They are SO good, but you need a double griddle or the process would take an hour!
The problem I'm having is that the griddles with the handles sticking out the ends are too LONG for the burner area on my rangetop. I found a Calphalon griddle with handles that are perpindicular to the pan, but that sucker is EXPENSIVE! I'm waiting for a coupon for 'Bed, Bath and Beyond' or 'Linens and Things' to show up that offers $ of any purchase. At least it will help a little!
I guess I must be a Hobbit, I sure like cooking and eating! At least the tops of my feet are not hairy, though after a summer in my Birkie sandals, the bottoms are rather tough!
Kind of like "Lost in Space" but with a real plot and interesting characters...
Looks like Lothlorien at night, huh?
See...that's the kind of office I want. I have one, but nobody pays me to work there.
Speaking of windows and private bathrooms, have you ever been in the ladies' room on the top of the Columbia Tower? (yes, there's a story associated with the question)
Girl, you'd better fetch your medicine before you drink that one!
That I DON'T like. Lights should just BE, in my opinion! I admit I thought the effects were pretty cool when I was little, though. Maybe it's all the time I spent watching them back then that makes me hate them now...
With our Christmas production, we have to do that.
I'm kind of getting excited tho. With our new siding and freshly painted windows, our house will look entirely different at Christmas this year. I bought new "big" lights for the tree inside, so I can use all of my small lights outside now.
So your house looks like the Griswolds' house at Christmas?
hehehe... I was thinking of the old movie serials of the 30s and 40s... the kind where at the end of an episode you'd see the hero's car crash and burn... and at the start of the next episode you'd get the camera shot of the hero rolling out the door of the car just before it crashed! :)
"DANGER! DANGER! BILBO BAGGINS!!"
Yes, but with fewer trees, unfortunately! :)
LOL! I just left my lights on the backyard tree last year. It is very tall, and I didn't feel like hauling the ladder out in the cold and snow, then by the time it got warm, I figured, why bother! I did take lights off the bushes in front, so I'll have to put those back on in mid-November before the weather gets too cold. We use the tiny white lights in front, but a combo of large and small multicolor lights in the back. We started decorating the one in the back because we can see it from our kitchen table and it is so cheerful to look out there and see the lights, especially when there's been a big snow! We usually light it up on Thanksgiving, the same day I start using my Christmas Dishes. They have a lovely scene of a snow covered village, so I use them all winter long for Thanksgiving, Christmas, company and Sunday Dinner.
What got me was the power company having to start up another generator.
Gandalf! You've changed!
Yeah, that was great...and I love the music at that part of the movie. Too funny!
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