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Brief Travel Break

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We found ourselves not eating pancakes for a few Sundays, despite being home to make them.  Then when we finally decided to make Eritrean pancakes, we found we hadn't planned far enough ahead to be able to make them. So we made some lemon poppy seed pancakes once again, especially since it's that time of year when all of our lemons begin ripening.  If you missed our first blog on lemon poppy seed pancakes, here it is.  Enjoy!

To Burundi or not to Burundi? That is the Question - Is the Answer So. Cal.?

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So this Sunday finds us having had too much work to do the previous week and no time to do any research into pancakes for Burundi, the next and final country in the Bs.  Seriously, trying to paint a kitchen and get report cards done at the same time are two activities that just don't mix.  Anyway, I digress as I often do, back to the important discussion of making pancakes. It's now Sunday, and we find ourselves without a pancake recipe and little energy to put into researching one for Burundi.  While waiting for the dog to finish his business so that I could close the back door, I discovered this: All of my previously slightly yellow, but mostly green lemons had decided to ripen up at the same time.  Yippee!  My mind said, "Let the lemon madness begin!"  I'm always excited by the first big batch of ripe lemons on the tree despite the fact that we pretty much have lemons on the tree year round (just not so many).  Thoughts of lemon cookies, lemon loaf,...