Perfect Pancakes, Homemade with Love

When my brothers and I were young, our father would often make us breakfast  before school. He worked shifts at a local steel mill, so if he was home and awake, we would have our choice of French toast, eggs, or pancakes. I can remember going to school and boasting that Dad had made us each 20 pancakes. Okay, some of them were dime-sized, but that really doesn’t matter when you’re nine.

This weekend, two of the grandbabies spent the night. We don’t usually keep cereal in the house because we don’t use it before it gets stale. We didn’t have any bread and only had a  little milk. So, for breakfast, homemade pancakes to the rescue!

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Disney’s Boma: A Restaurant Review

On our recent trip to Walt Disney World, we were determined to eat at every single restaurant that the Animal Kingdom Lodge housed. (Okay, I was determined; Dennis didn’t care as long as he got to eat.) The only restaurant that we’d been to before was Boma, the buffet featuring African specialties along with American favorites.

Open for both breakfast and dinner, Boma is a buffet specializing in dishes from 50 different African countries served alongside familiar American favorites. Guests dine under thatched roofs, surrounded by brilliant colors which invoke the vibrant textiles found in Africa. We’d eaten dinner there before, but hadn’t ever visited for breakfast. Because we would be staying at Jambo House, I made both breakfast and dinner reservations for our long weekend stay.

Disney's Boma Restaurant buffet at the Animal Kingdom Lodge is a feast for the senses. Continue reading “Disney’s Boma: A Restaurant Review”