
On weekends, however, I try to make something a little special, and I'm a little more lenient on the health front. One of my favorite breakfast treats is the popover. I've written about these before; they still fall flat some days (as seen below) but they taste just as lovely. I like to put out a platter of popovers, a pot of tea, and some toppings like butter and jam. (Once we used lemon curd, which was spectacular!) One recent Sunday morning, we slathered our popovers with Stonewall Kitchen Blackberry Jam, a gift from our landlords (hi Holly!). This jam was so delicious that we used it all up within six weeks - it usually takes us a year to use up any given pot.

See the Yahtzee score sheet in the background? This is the other part of our weekend breakfast ritual. We've fallen in to the wonderful habit of playing Yahtzee while we eat on weekend mornings. It's a nice game of chance and strategy, and it takes us back to our first year of marriage, when we played endless rounds of Yahtzee, Uno, and Sequence on the fold-up table in our shoebox-sized studio apartment in London.

Here are some chocolate-chip pancakes - a very rare indulgence. I actually haven't made pancakes in quite a while because we're just about out of maple syrup and I've held off on buying more since the next sugaring season is just a few weeks away. We've actually been invited to a maple sugaring weekend in Vermont, which I'm really excited about.
Have a great weekend, and check back here tomorrow for the big reveal of my first Daring Bakers challenge!
3 comments:
Hi Sarah....I do have oatmeal a lot during the winter. I purchase it in bulk and make it in my rice cooker in huge batches. it keeps very well in the fridge. Jim can't believe I often have it as a bedtime snack.
I think them Popovers are actually Yorkshire Puddings by another name! Although Yorkshire pudding + jam sounds pretty spectacular actually! ;)
I don't eat oatmeal much, but then I go on kicks of eating it every morning-- with brown sugar and dried cranberries. Have you tried Vermont Morning? They sell it at the Co-op and I want to say the company is in Waitsfield, VT. I had only eaten Quaker Oats before I tried it and it's so much better-- has some flavor and a nice tooth to it.
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