When we first arrived in Shanghai four years ago, we discovered there was no pancake mix in the stores. Nancy gave Jim a simple recipe and he has been making pancakes from scratch ever since. This year, the breakfast chef has moved onto crepes. On this last trip back to America, Jim came back with a flat skillet and his push spoon to make rounder crepes.

Emmy eats her crepe with Nutella and powder sugar. Elle likes just powder sugar. Sure beats the expensive crepes sold at the Los Gatos farmers’ market on Sunday mornings.

Jim has now begun making homemade bread without a bread machine and yogurt. Again, yogurt is so expensive in the store. We sure are getting spoiled in this house!

Little Chef is Eleri. She loves to be in the kitchen helping. I am trying to bake more so the girls have homemade treats in their lunches. If I have an open Saturday morning, Eleri and I will bake cookies, cake or brownies. Eleri and I made homemade brownies on this day.