Yesterday I made one of my favorite recipes – Puffy Pancakes! Instead of using the standard four chicken eggs, I used all quail eggs…exactly twenty-four of them!
Mom says she noticed a different taste; I didn’t. They still made the pancake puff nicely!
This recipe is so good, and so easy. Just preheat the oven to 425 (with your cast iron skillet inside.) While it’s heating, mix together 4 chicken eggs (or 24 quail eggs), 1 cup milk, 1 cup flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla.
After the oven is heated, melt 2 tablespoons butter in your skillet, then pour in the batter. Immediately put into the oven, and don’t open the door again for 15 minutes. Serve immediately with your choice of topping (we like chopped strawberries and cream!)
Speaking of cream, Mom recently discovered this local dairy (Lynden WA) that sells 100% Jersey cream. Wow. It is SO GOOD. So incredibly rich and tasty. I could eat it by simply pouring it out of the bottle into a spoon!
We finally got some more work done on the roof of the new quail coop.
The two lower roof sections still need to have waterproofing put on, but the middle section finally has its roof garden.
We are planting it with chamomile. After this photo, three more starts were planted, so hopefully it will fill in soon and become lush and green.
The strawberries on the other quail roof garden are coming along nicely. They have flowers now.
There are a few pansies up there, too.
While at a local nursery, I found a fuzzy kiwi vine and fell in love.
LOVE the red tendrils!
So much fuzziness!
After I discovered that my hardy kiwi male can pollinate fuzzy kiwis, I was sold. I now have hardy AND fuzzy kiwis! Here’s to lots and lots of fruit (and darling fuzzy vines.)
I have planted out most of my beans. I planted a TON of beans. Green beans, gold beans, purple beans, striped beans, red beans, runner beans, footlong beans…I have them all. I cannot resist a pretty bean!
I especially like the colored beans, because they are so much easier to see (and pick.) No hiding among the green leaves until they are huge and overgrown. There particular ones are Dragon’s Tongue.
I am just so happy that winter is over and I need fear no more frosts!
Out of Eden 