Another "relaxing" Saturday

My parents are in Montana, so we've been keeping an extra eye on grandma while they are away. Last night she spent the night to join us for Shabbatt dinner. At 3am (the usual time I seem to wake up from the pregnancy anyway) I woke up to grandma coughing...a lot. Not terribly surprising, since she's been recovering from a cold...but it went on for an hour, resulting in fever, chills, and a lot of "unproductive" retching over the toilet. She finally fell back to sleep at 4, and I did the same at 5:45.
Around 6:30 Haim and I woke up from lots of chicken squawking. At first we thought that they had escaped into the front yard...but after a dash to the front and the back, we realized that they were having a stand-off with a hawk who was a touch smaller than them. He flew off, we fed the chickens and went back to sleep for an hour.
I woke up and prepared some ricotta pancakes...thankfully, because the day has never really calmed since then! Exciting events include a garbage truck exploding a tire in front of our house just after Maya woke up, Haim and I running back and forth between rental properties, and a very confused grandma waking up believing it was Monday. Luckily a yummy, protein packed breakfast helped us set the tone for the day!

Ricotta Pancakes
(the original recipe says this is enough for 2 servings, but I think it is enough for 6 small to medium eaters, especially with fresh fruit served on the side)

• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup ricotta cheese
• 2 eggs
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1 or 2 handfuls fresh or frozen mixed berries (if you like)
  
• 1 lemon, zested and juiced
• Butter, for griddle

Preheat a nonstick griddle.

Combine flour, baking powder, nutmeg, salt, and sugar in a small bowl. Whisk together the remaining ingredients in a large bowl, and then combine in dry ingredients. Add butter to hot pan, and pour silver dollar size pancakes. Cook on both sides until light golden brown. Repeat until no batter remains. We like to top this with a touch of maple syrup, but they are delicious plain too.

Enjoy!