Coffee?

Posted on February 9th, 2008 in shopping by Andy

Kristen and I came back to our hose this afternoon and got distracted by a cafepress box that was waiting on the doorstep. We opened it and she was pleased with her “I knit….So I don’t kill people” mug and tshirt.  We’re holding the coffee mug and Kristen asks me “So why did we come back to the house?”.  I couldn’t remember why and then Kristen remembered it was to get some coffee to brew at her parents house.  The funny thing is that she was holding a coffee cup whilst asking me the question.  We both had a good laugh and then proceeded to make the coffee – this afternoons flavour was Coconut Cream pie – I thought it smelt like the pie, but like most flavoured coffees didn’t actually taste like it (but was very nice though).

Shrove Tuesday pancakes.

Posted on February 5th, 2008 in photos by Andy

Day 36 - Pancake Day

Today is Shrove Tuesday or commonly known as pancake day in the UK. A special day in the Helsby household due to the connections with the Olney pancake race that mum ran in a long time ago. Last year Dad apparently ran in his local pancake race too. This year I just tossed the pancakes as Dublin doesn’t do a pancake race but it would be a fun thing if they did. This would be the second US pancake race as Kansas competes with Olney (and Olney won this year.) I cheated and used bisquick for the pancake – the first came out like traditional american pancakes (very thick) – the second was too thin and stuck to the pan and the third one was just right  (but also stuck to the pan!) Apologies to the guys at work who are reading this but I wasn’t going to dress up in a pinny and headscarf for the picture!