Folksy Friday

                                                                              Italy!



Continuing with the Italian theme for my Folksy Friday this week I have found lots of Italian inspired items. I lost count of the number of times a little Fiat zoomed into a parking space ahead of us as we manoeuvred the rental tank through winding streets looking for car parks! Can you believe we got a bill this morning for refilling the car. We filled it up on the way to the airport so it really was quite full already. £18 Euros to fill it before adding the pennies worth of petrol that it needed!






Please click on the images to go directly to the Folksy shops. The tags with stamps from Flying Away reminded me that we didn't post the postcards. They must be in an unopened bag somewhere, probably covered in sand.  The soap from Miss Poppy's Lovely Soap Shop looks great and has been created to remind you of warm Italian evenings. The hand drawn map from Capri Maps locates Sardinia. It's the island off the west coast.   Rome's Colosseum by Vanillaa and Venice by Fresco Photograhy are places that I still have not visited but would love the opportunity. I think a trip to the Murano glass shop near Venice would be right up my street.

Pancake Brunch

The Best Pancakes Ever!

In the quest to find fantastic egg recipies we have found this one for pancakes. These are the big fat fluffy American ones not those thin things we eat on Shrove Tuesday here in the UK.

We ran down to the chickens grabbed ourselves some eggs, picked some fresh raspberries and served them with gallons of maple syrup.

Kawaii Cute Japanese Floating Ring-Pancakes with Syrup

by FingerFoodDelight

Ingredients

• 3 large eggs ( one each from Snowy, Ronnie and The chicken with no name!)

• 115g/4oz plain flour

• 1 heaped teaspoon baking powder

• 140ml/5fl oz milk
• a pinch of salt

* chocolate chips

First separate the eggs, putting the whites into one bowl and the yolks into another. Add the flour, baking powder and milk to the yolks and mix to a smooth thick batter. Whisk the whites with the salt until they form stiff peaks. (Due to the large amount of egg whisking I seem to be doing I have finally bought myself an electric whisk. Hallelujah!) Fold into the batter – it is now ready to use.

Heat a non-stick pan on a medium heat. Pour some of your batter into the pan and fry for a couple of minutes until it starts to look golden and firm. NO oil needed. I added some chocolate chips to the batter at this stage onto the uncooked side before turning over. Not large chunks though. These tended to burn. Continue frying until both sides are golden.

Adapted from a Jamie Oliver Oliver recipie

If you can't be bothered with all that mixing I have found this mix that you can buy from BestBrownie. Click on the link to go directly to the store.

You have to try this recipie. It is now a Sunday favourite.