33 weeks and counting!
On Monday I made Blueberry Muffins.
On Tuesday I made Blueberry Jam.
And on Wednesday I made Blueberry Cornmeal Pancakes.
Blueberry Cornmeal Pancakes
from Martha Stewart Living June 2009
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. coarse salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 cups low-fat buttermilk
1/4 cup whole milk
1 1/2 ounces (3 tbsp.) unsalted butter, melted and cooled, plus more for griddle
1 large egg, lightly beaten
2 cups (1 pint) blueberries
1. Whisk together flour cornmeal, 2 tbsp. sugar, the baking powder, salt and baking soda. In another bowl, whisk together buttermilk, milk, butter and egg. Whisk wet ingredients into dry ingredients until just combined (mixture will be lumpy).
2. Preheat oven to 200F. Heat a griddle or large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Toss blueberries with remaining 2 tbsp. sugar. Brush griddle with melted butter. Spoon batter onto griddle 1/3 cup at a time. Sprinkle with sugared blueberries, about 2 tbsp. per pancake. Cook until edges are set, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip and cook until golden brown, about 2 minutes. Repeat with remaining batter and blueberries adding more butter to griddle and keeping prepared pancakes warm on a baking sheet in the oven.
My Notes: Do butter the griddle even if it’s nonstick. Pancakes will get bigger when blueberries are dropped on them.
On Saturday, despite the weather, we spent a few hours at the pool. I love diving and did so off the diving board. Sometimes I think my belly is a fat suit that I can take off anytime I’m ready to and over the past couple of weeks I’ve gotten myself into a couple of cinches as I’ve forgotten about my protruding stomach. Well diving off the diving board was not the smartest thing. The top of my belly got a nice slap and I felt the force thrust Holly into my pelvis.
I now feel a little bit like she’s dropped and she has definitely shifted. She is now on a diagonal when before she was in the proper position. Great. Guess I’ll be spending some quality time on my hands and knees trying to get her back to up and down before she gets too big and jammed in there.
The lesson learned: I’m bigger than I sometimes think I am and I cannot dive off of diving boards at 32 weeks.
Hopefully I’m never nearing the end of a pregnancy in the summertime again.
I don’t know what happened. We definitely went through a growth spurt and we’re definitely getting bigger. Holly’s most recent favourite thing is pushing her foot really hard towards the outside at the the front. I’m surprised at how much it hurts especially considering how small those little feet are! I’m thinking she’s ticklish since we can chase her little feet back and forth over the top of my stomach. Whoop whoop! Two more months until we can tickle her feet and find out!
Sorry if you think I’ve been a little sluggish at the computer recently. It’s been crazy around here and things are just going to get more crazy over the next 2 and a half weeks. I’ve decided our new family goal is to say, “no” more often over the next 4 months. So if you ask me to bring cookies to the next ward function and I tell you that I need to check my calendar, I’ll probably say, “no” to you later on. I can’t even bake cupcakes properly or find the time to bake bread right now. Needless to say, I think the next month will go by swiftly!
