BakerAunt
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Today I baked the Easy Buckwheat Oat English Muffins (recipe on this site under "by sue/theviewfrom") that I have been craving for a couple of weeks. I always substitute in 1 1/2 cups buttermilk for that much water. This time I substituted in 2 Tbs. of honey for the 2 Tbs. of sugar. I added 2 Tbs. of flax meal. I always find this dough very sticky, so I add an additional 2 Tbs. of bread flour. I'm looking forward to breakfast for the next few mornings--and breaking out some of my homemade jam.
My family sometimes would go to Shakey's pizza--which featured someone playing the piano. Their ad had the jingle: "We serve fun at Shakey's, also pizza." I have no memory of how the pizza tasted.
My family tended not to go out for pizza (except for a couple of times at Shakey's). I come from a large family, so usually my mother either did frozen pizzas, which we usually doctored up for the toppings, or we did take-out pizza. The latter was our go-to dinner on Christmas Eve, as we were desperately trying to make it to a 7:30 church service, in which at least several family members were participating. For a time, there was a pizza place in Glendora, CA that would give a discount on election days to anyone who presented an "I voted" sticker, but at some point the election people put a stop to that. Perhaps they thought that people only voted so that they could get a pizza discount....
A memorable pizza place for me is one in San Diego at Fisherman's Village. I also remember a wonderful stuffed pizza in Chicago. Here in Lubbock, One Guy from Italy is the place to go.
I can see how a couple that gets a babysitter and goes out for a nice dinner might not be happy with rambunctious children at the next table. Parents should think about whether a specific setting is age or behavior appropriate for their children. If a child is trained with good table manners at home, it should translate to behavior in restaurants.
I hate to see a blanket age policy, as it unfairly discriminates against children who can handle the restaurant setting. There would not need to be a rule if people would use common sense, but then, common sense is not necessarily very common.
