February slipping by...36º

On Groundhog day many years ago a community dinner was held at the Joseph Civic Center...A fund raiser, dinner consisted of all you could eat sausage (groundhog) and pancakes...They featured sausage made by Floyd Kennedy and were fun dinners visiting with friends and neighbors but eventually ran their course and probably ran out of volunteers, then Floyd passed away and the dinners are no more.

I've always thought Groundhog day was a rather silly celebration other than eating out, not having to cook and also a break in a long winter...Never had much faith in the myth of some obscure groundhog seeing his shadow back east was going to predict out winter out west!..But we have always stuck with the tradition and had hog in some form for dinner on Feb 2nd...This year it was ham served alongside sourdough pancakes...I made my own version of SD pancakes, using double the amount of very active SD starter combined with flour, salt, sugar, oil and just before dropping dough on the griddle, I added a pinch each of soda and baking powder, gave it a quick stir....How nice they were, rising on the griddle, toasty brown, soon to be covered in butter/peanut butter and topped with homemade jam...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Cooking

Ready for the toppings.