Recipes

My mom has made this for us for as long as I can remember. To me it's like a mix between french toast, a crepe, and pancakes. The best of all great breakfast sweets. I made it this morning for Greg and he loved it. So, here it is!

Dutch Baby's AKA German Pancake

Ingredients:

1/3 c. butter
4 eggs
1 c. milk
1 c. flour
1 tsp. sugar
touch of cinnamon

You will need a 13x9 casserole pan. It can be glass. Put the butter in the pan and heat until melted in the oven at 400 degrees. Meanwhile mix all the other ingredients in a blender for 30 sec. to a minute. Once the butter is melted take the pan out of the oven and pour the blended mix into the pan. Return to oven and let bake for 20 minutes. While it is cooking it will rise and then once you remove from the oven it will sink. It's great with syrup and powdered sugar or fruit. This last Christmas my mom made it with this lovely sauce:

Banana Butterscotch Sauce

Ingredients:
1 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. butter
2 tsp. water
1/2 c. sour cream
1/2 c. chopped and toasted walnuts or pecans
2 bananas peeled and sliced
pinch of salt

in medium saucepan cook brown sugar salt and water over medium heat, stirring until bubbling (about 5 min.) Stir in the butter, sour cream, and bananas. Heat through and enjoy!

Recipe from Brianne Henderson

R.I.P. Howard Zinn

Last week we lost one of the greatest historians/activists/writers in decades. Howard Zinn took the rich, white man off his high horse and brought the underdog to the forefront of history.

Remember in elementary school when you were led to believe everything was happy and merry with the Pilgrims and Indians? Or that Christopher Columbus was the reason America exists? Well, if you were like me, some of these stories sounded a little suspicious, but when you're 8 it's hard to know what to do about it.

The teachers didn't lie on purpose. Most textbooks had the same stories because most were written by rich, white men. While Zinn is also a rich, white man, somewhere along the way he realized history is more than Louis & Clark and the Oregon Trail.

In addition to being a highly-regarded historian, he was also an anti-war activist. He joined the military during World War II to fight fascism, but he began to question the morality of war after his service.

For some time Zinn was also a professor at Spelman College, placing him in the center of the civil rights movement. In 1963 he was fired from the college for his involvement in encouraging students to stand up for themselves.

In this world of blogs and online magazines, anyone can be a writer/journalist/historian. For better or for worse, we now have a surplus of opinionated news stories that rarely see an editor (see K.O. Zine). While I'm all for opportunity, all of this information makes it even more tough to find the real facts. Zinn's work on history, specifically People's History of the United States, are always my go-to sources if I want to know the truth. He will be missed.

For more information please watch the documentary "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" and read the autobiography of the same name.