Month: May 2008

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English Muffins

As a kid we had English Muffins in the pantry just about any given day of the week. It was a staple that we bought every week at the grocery store.They couldn’t be just ANY English Muffins – they had to be Thomas’ English Muffins. The ones with the “nooks and crannies” for the melting butter to run down and pool up in little delicious butter puddles for each bite.

The English Muffins are much more than a breakfast bread. I eat them in the afternoon as a snack, with a coating of peanut butter on top that melts down into the nooks and crannies and makes each bite a smooth delicious mix of muffin and sweet peanut butter.

Sometimes we use English Muffins in place of hamburger buns . . . gives a grilled burger and your favorite toppings a whole new take on delicious.

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Hurrah Beltane!

Does anybody that is not a practicing Wicken even know what Beltane is? Does anyone understand the origin of the May Day celebration?

I don’t recall learning any of this in school. You would think that with all those years sitting in a classroom with all those different teachers and all those different subjects, that someone would have introduced a mention of the ancient days in England and the surrounding countries.

World History is a lot more than just World War I and World War II. I honestly don’t remember anything else from school about world history. Everything that I’ve learned about the world has been from documentaries on TV, books from the library and bookstore and the internet. There is a lot to learn about other places and other people’s cultures.

Americans are being shortchanged not learning these things – or at least being introduced to some of the topics for further independent research – in the public schools and colleges.