How exquisite is your love, O God!
You are a fountain of cascading light.
Psalm 36:7&9 (The Message)
Happy Valentine’s Day
Tag: Valentine’s Day
Off to Class
The topic for this week’s 1960’s class we are attending was “Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll”, the counter culture of the 60’s.
So we dressed the part. I’m not sure turtleneck sweaters were part of the dress scene but I did put a flower in my hair…not a daisy like my original debut in 1967. Gary wore a bandana around his longish, gray hair. That’s about as ‘hippy’ as we get!
It is a very interesting class and we are really enjoying the discussions.
***On a different note: The previous week our 1960’s class fell on Valentine’s Day. Before class three high school students from the Alternative Learning Center, which meets in the same building, came into the classroom and handed out hand-made Valentines to “the seniors.” It was sweet, however, for some reason it made me feel old. But, I guess I am considering I was alive in the 60’s! HA
Valentine’s Day Tradition
I have written about our Valentine’s Day dinner tradition before. It began years ago when our boys were young. I wanted to make the day special and start a tradition, hopefully one that would last. I decided to make heart- shape French toast…which over the years morphed into waffles because I found an electric waffle maker that made heart-shape waffles!
I have made this dinner for many Valentine’s Days over the years. Even after the boys left home, I would make it for Gary and me. The tradition has lasted and it continues…
This year we have our grandchildren living with us so I will be getting out the red tablecloth, using fun Valentine’s Day napkins, and making heart-shape waffles for them. I think they will love it – just as my boys did when they were little.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Valentine’s Day Dinner
Years ago, when our boys were young we started a Valentine’s Day dinner tradition; heart-shaped French Toast. I’d buy a loaf of day-old bread, use a cookie cutter to cut out the heart shapes – saving the crusts to feed the ducks at the pond near by- make French Toast batter to dunk the bread and cook them up.
Then along came electric heart-shaped waffle makers (I have very fond memories of eating heart-shaped waffles at my relative’s homes in Norway.) I bought a waffle maker and switched to heart-shaped waffles for Valentine’s Day dinner, which I continue to make each year even though it’s just the two of us now.
This year, when I was up north at my uncles paging through a magazine, I found Norwegian Waffle recipe that looked good. I wrote down the recipe thinking it might be similar to the recipe they use in Norway. We decided to try it on Valentine’s Day.
In the morning I checked the ingredients and had my husband stop to pick up a couple we didn’t have on hand, and I stopped at the co-op in town to get cardamom ( maybe the secret ingredient??? ) However, I was so excited to try this recipe that I didn’t pay any attention to the quantity it makes until we had already started the batter, and then we decided it was too late to turn back. Well, four cups of milk and four cups of flour, one and a half sticks of butter plus additional ingredients, makes a lot of batter! We could have had the neighborhood over! We laughed.
We decided to make up all the waffles and freeze them…hopefully they’ll be tasty toasted.