Cornmeal Griddle Cakes

Tango hoping Max will share his pancakes. 

These pancakes are my son Max’s favorite breakfast when he comes home for the holidays, closely adapted from my mother's sacred and ancient edition of The Fanny Farmer Cookbook:

1½ cups yellow corn meal

¼ cup flour

1 teaspoon soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 Tablespoon sugar

2 cups buttermilk

2 Tablespoons canola oil

2 eggs: stir in yolks, then beat whites separately until stiff and fold in last

Fry pancake batter on a hot griddle with ample oil, so the get crispy at the edges.

Serve with maple syrup.

Pup Tango notes he too is fond of cornmeal griddlecakes, and the sausage that often goes with them.  Sky leaves the pork to us, and goes for Morning Star fake-sausage. Pup Tango notes he is not averse to fake-sausage.

Max got magnetic beads this Christmas from our friend Jo, and enjoyed fiddling with them, constructing and deconstructing the perfect cube, til finally the moment came, and he cast them at the fridge and this happened:

Since Max headed back to college, Tango has been fascinated by the beads on the fridge -- I assumed because they smelled like Max. But we woke up this morning to find this on the fridge:  

Don't worry Max, Tango still can't do the cube.

Music to listen to with Max and Tango:

Flogging Molly - Devil's Dance Floor