Good Recipe and other stuff

I found this recipe in the newspaper and tried it today. It is good!

Sesame Pancake Mix

1 Cup sesame seeds
1 Cup old fashioned oats
3 Cups whole wheat flour
2 3/4 Cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 Cups buckwheat flour
2 1/4 Cups yellow or white cornmeal
1 Cup sugar
1 (12 oz ) container buttermilk powder
5 Tablespoons baking powder
2 Tablespoons baking soda
2 Tablespoons salt

1. To prepare mix, toast sesame seeds in a large cast iron skillet over medium high heat. Stir constantly, until fragrant and light brown, about 4 minutes. Immediately remove from the heat. Pour into a bowl to cool.
2. Place oats into a food processor and pulse until powdery. Add sesame seeds and pulse to grind. (Mixture will be mostly powdery with a few whole seeds here and there. Don't overgrind, or you'll end up releasing too much oil).
3. Transfer oatmeal mixture to a large bowl. Add flours, cornmeal, sugar and buttermilk powder. Stir well.
4. Sift baking powder, baking soda and salt over flour mixture. Stir well.
5. Transfer into 1 pint jars or zip top bags. To prevent rancidity, both from the whole grain flours and sesame seeds, store in the freezer.

Pancakes

2 eggs
1 Cup water
2 Cups Pancake Mix
4 teaspoons vegetable oil

To prepare pancakes, beat eggs and water in a medium bowl. Whisk in pancake mix and vegetable oil. Do not overbeat. Heat a heavy nonstick or well seasoned cast iron skillet over medium heat. Ladle in batter. Cook 2 to 3 minutes,; flip and cook 1 to 2 minutes. Makes 4 (6") pancakes.

Spent the morning getting the kitchen cleaned up. Finished up some humanitarian sewing and turned in 12 skirts, 8 shorts and 1 dress. Also hemmed up 3 tablecloths for the ward. Whew! I thought I was about done with humanitarian stuff for awhile but when I turned in what I had they gave me a big bag of material and a roll of elastic. I'll work on it as I can but the yard is definitely calling me with the warmer weather. However a big storm from Alaska is supposed to blow in on Monday. Back to freezing weather they say.

The guineas have been wandering further and further afield. Ranelle told me that the ranch she worked on in New Zealand had an assortment of poultry and when they started wandering too far, they cooped them up for 3 or 4 days. Said it seemed to reprogram their minds to stay closer to the coop when they got out. So, we have the guineas cooped up until Tuesday. It's a good trick if it works! I'll let you know.

Dad fixed up a raccoon trap for Rachelle today. Hopefully she will be able to capture the coons that have invaded her yard. But then she'll have to figure out what to do with them. She lives right on the edge of town so it's not that far to the woods. She's coming down early this next week so can take the trap home with her.

We were saddened to learn this week of the death of my cousin, Elwood Miller. He would have been 97 on the 19th of this month. He is the son of my mother's oldest brother, Bud. I wish we could go to his funeral but that's not possible. He was a good, good man. He's the oldest cousin on the Miller side and the youngest cousin is 33. Quite an age spread!

We won't be going to the temple this month as the temple is closed for two weeks for cleaning.

Hope you all have a good week. We love you and pray for you every day.

Mom/g'ma/Lynn