Groundhog, Bowling, Dizziness, House vs. Apartment,

Turns out that Ontario's Wiarton Willie predicted an early spring for us this year. Wouldn't that be nice. Quite dull here today. Cold though, enough to upset brass monkeys.

I bowled better today thanks goodness, not brilliant, but better. Although somebody, who shall be nameless, really thrashed me in the last game.  A couple of friends we bowl with although not on the same lanes, are off to Cuba on Saturday. Asked if they had room in their case. No such luck. Ah well.

At some point in recent months I mentioned my friend who was having dizzy spells and had fallen

and broken her ankle, etc. She was not happy with her doctor anyway, said he was treating her like a hysterical idiot. Went to a new one - the first thing the new one did was take her off blood pressure pills which, by the sound of it, she should never have been taking. No wonder she was getting dizzy. She hasn't felt dizzy for 2 days and is very happy. She'd like to report her previous doctor but I don't think she will. You probably need to have lots of documentation etc. etc. I am so pleased for  her. Maybe she can start bowling again too.

I was talking to one woman at the alley yesterday, somewhat younger than I, but not that much. She was all proud that she could still run her own house and shovel snow, etc. etc. At one time I might have envied her, but no longer. I have no desire to live in a house again. We have no grounds to maintain be it snow or grass, no repairs to pay for we just say "oy fix it" and it gets done. Not only that we can walk out of our apartment and leave it to go on vacation and have little or no worries about break ins. You can keep your houses thank you. Nice when you are younger with a family, but not when you are getting up in years.

Time for something chocolatey. Can't go wrong for me - I love chocolate and I love pancakes, or what are known as crèpes here, combine the two and yum.

Chocolate Pancakes with Chocolate Hazelnut Spread

If you love chocolate and you love pancakes, you’ll definitely want to try these chocolate pancakes with chocolate hazelnut spread for Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday). They only take 15 mins to cook and this recipe should make about 8 pancakes depending on the size of your pan. The hazelnut flavours of the spread

and the rich chocolate pancake work really well together – so well that you might think about having them for dessert instead of just on Pancake Day.

Ingredients

To make the pancake:
150 g plain flour
2 Tbs cocoa powder
pinch of salt
1tsp ground cinnamon
2 med eggs
300 ml milk

To make the spread:
60 g toasted hazelnuts
2 Tbs golden caster sugar
200 ml single cream
200 g bar dark chocolate

To serve:
Strawberries or raspberries

If you haven't got any chocolate spread you could always drizzle your pancakes in melted chocolate instead

Method

To make the pancakes  Whizz flour with cocoa, salt, cinnamon, eggs and milk. Chill for 1 hr if you have time. Make eight 20cm pancakes.

To make the spread: Blitz hazelnuts with caster sugar until fairly finely ground. Bring cream to almost to the boil in a pan. Take off the heat, add dark chocolate in pieces, stir to melt, and then stir in almost all of the nut mixture.

Fold the pancakes into cones on plates. Spoon some choccy hazelnut spread. Serve with strawberries, or raspberries, and sprinkle with the rest of the chopped nuts, and dust with icing sugar.

Servings: 8

Source: Woman's Weekly

Have a great day