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[bruceha2000]

2 cups corn meal
1/4 cup sugar
1-1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt (I use 1/4, don't like when they turn out salty)
1-1/2 cups milk
3 tbsp vegetable oil
2 egg whites (I use the whole eggs)
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups blueberries (if you have them)

Salt is necessary when you use baking powder.
What do you mean IF you have blueberries??

I like Hellmans' also but can never find it in the low fat variety so I am stuck with Miracle Whip.

How much do you use at a time? I can't imagine putting MW on something to save a few grams of fat. Flavor and texture aside, I'd skip the MW based just on the high fructose corn syrup.

leaving just the psycho calico (who got that crazed 'I must flee' look in her eyes when I started to pet her) and went into hiding....may not see her till next Thanksgiving

Sounds like Rascal. She has her annual vet visit Friday, odds are good she will "smell" my intent and be gone into hiding long before I am supposed to capture her.


I've seen a couple of robins already this year, no Red Wings though.

 

[chickadoodles]

Robins are here as well as Blue Jay's. We have some black birds not sure about red wing black birds. I have never seen any. I've seen a couple of Cardinals and Doves.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Oh it's so cute that you don't know what a snow tire is!

The snow is higher than the dog. Heading out now to find the dog and snowblow.

 

[bruceha2000]

Find the dog FIRST @superchemicalgirl !! And not with the blower.
Seems your walks will be short for awhile.

 

[microchick]

Morning all!

Two chicks out this morning. The other two have good pips so I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that they are going to make an appearance. The two little pin heads that have hatched are fluffed and running laps around the Brinseal. Just found one of them sitting on the hygrometer which is now pretty much furniture at this point.

SGC you must seriously be so sick and tired of the snow by now.. I know we tease you a lot but in reality I do understand what it is like to live with white all around you and more white coming down. I was born and raised in central IL and remember winters where it was snowy from December to April. The year my mom died I shoveled the driveway so many times that I finally just parked the car at the end of the driveway so I didn't have so much to dig out to get to the street. Stay safe.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

 

[Bunnylady]

What's a snow tire???

Not quite the same thing as a mud tire.

We dont have many red winged blackbirds here... either that or I never see them.

Red Winged Blackbirds live and breed in open, marshy areas (think cattails); you may not have a lot of the kind of habitat that they prefer. When I lived near Elizabeth City, they were one of three species that often collected in huge, noisy flocks that roosted in the trees and fed in the fields during the winter.

 

[ronott1]

Snow tires have a more aggressive tread than the al

All you need is all wheel drive right?

 

[ronott1]

Morning all!

Two chicks out this morning. The other two have good pips so I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that they are going to make an appearance. The two little pin heads that have hatched are fluffed and running laps around the Brinseal. Just found one of them sitting on the hygrometer which is now pretty much furniture at this point.

SGC you must seriously be so sick and tired of the snow by now.. I know we tease you a lot but in reality I do understand what it is like to live with white all around you and more white coming down. I was born and raised in central IL and remember winters where it was snowy from December to April. The year my mom died I shoveled the driveway so many times that I finally just parked the car at the end of the driveway so I didn't have so much to dig out to get to the street. Stay safe.

Congratulations on the hatch!

You still get snow sometimes. I have to go to the mountains to see snow. I have not gone to see snow in years!

 

[Bunnylady]

All you need is all wheel drive right?

Cats! That'll teach me to walk away from the computer for a minute!

On the rare occasions that we have icy roads around here, the ditches get cluttered up with 4-wheel-drive SUVs. Nobody can walk on the stuff, why in the world do they think they can drive on it?!