that must be such a relief for you WindSparrow. Make sure you buy yourself a treat out of the $10. You deserve it!

Yes that synchronization is one of my primary tasks.

Omnis, it is very kind of you to call Stefan and I two of the best in the business. Thank you.

Its kind of odd to have a show that people are finding articles about in their own.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, am a nooooodle. Great massage. Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I should do my taxes, but am not ready to engage the brain.

Lovely, Suzi! Enjoy the massage afteraffects. Taxes will be there to do later. Unfortunately.

Ugh. I got up a little before 11AM. By 1pm, I had a horrible headache, and laid back down. I just got up and feel very out of it. And I'm SO READY to kill my downstairs neighbor, who has been playing loud thumping bass music for hours on end. I mean, yes, it's the middle of the day on a weekend, but DAMN

Sigh. The "young Jews aren't Jewish enough!" thing has made it to national mainstream media: [link] I love it how articles like this never recognise all the stuff that younger urban Jews are doing. Just within DC, and of things that I've personally been to, there are two quite large congregations founded and mostly attended by people under 30, and a weekly study group that gets about 30-40 people. And that's just stuff that I've actually attended -- there's a lot more, too. But it's not associated with the traditional synagogues, and thus it's ignored.

I just had the best supper ever: homemade oatmeal pancakes made ever so slightly sweeter than normal, topped with mostly melted frozen mixed berries and cherries mixed with a touch of cardamom and a tiny bit of agave nectar. OMGnomnomnom.

Oatmeal pancakes?

Want!

Is there an easily accessible recipe?

Yep. Except I kind of misspoke. I used oat flour, not oatmeal.

I used the griddlecakes recipe in an ancient Women's Home Companion Cook Book and substituted oat flour for about 2/3 of the flour:

Mix
1 1/2 C flour
3 1/2 t baking powder
3/4 t salt
3 T sugar (I used about 3 1/2 T)

The recipe says to sift the flour and then sift all of the dry ingredients together, but I just poured them in a bowl and stirred.

Add
1 egg (it said well beaten, but I just beat it while mixing)
1 cup milk (I used 1%)
3 T melted butter (it said shortening)

Mix to moisten dry ingredients, but do not beat. Actually, I beat a little bit, because I didn't mix the wet ingredients before adding them. Cook on a hot griddle. The cookbook suggests adding "sirrup". I love old cookbooks!

I am having a foodgasm over here, too. But I didn't make it myself. I'm having Bengan ka Salan (sauteed eggplant in coconut curry sauce) for the first time AIFG! The eggplant is in big chunks and the sauce is just the right amount of hot tempered with sweet.