Today was a nice, uneventful Sunday here in Virginia. Instead of Little and I making our regular trek to McDonald’s for pancakes, we made our own breakfast with the cool as-seen-on-TV Pancake Puff Pan that I picked up yesterday. If you’ve never seen the infomercial, it’s a cast iron pan with seven round holes in which you put pancake batter. How it’s different from a muffin pan is that it’s made from a heavy iron (in which you use it directly on the stove top) and the holes are truly hemispherical, as opposed to the flat bottoms of muffin pans.
The first batch turned out fine. We made plain ones first and ate them with syrup. They had a standard pancake taste except they were like little balls. We put hot dog chunks in the second batch but we let the pan get too hot so they were a little burnt. That was okay, we ate them anyway. We made a third batch of plain since we had batter left over. We were both full so we gave a couple of these to the dog. He enjoyed them. My overall review of the new Pancake Puff pan: it’s kind of neat, but not nearly as easy as the infomercial makes it look.
After our Pancake Puff breakfast, we drove out to Buckroe Beach for a couple hours of fun time. Nothing too exciting, but you can see the pictures here. Little and I went to Target and Sonic afterwards to give mom a bit of rest time. We picked up presents for everybody! Little got a Lego Bionicle. Mom got a “Goonies” DVD for next week’s family movie night. I got a bargain bin video game (American Conquest), and Maggie Belle got a 92 pack box of diapers. The diapers were our whole reason for going to the store– the others were impulse items. That’s all for today. And as always, if you’re looking for some best selling toys, check out our store: Atomic Elephant Toy.