Blackout Cooking

{ice}

March weather in my neck of the woods of upstate New York is often a "wintery mix" - which brings ice. In my neighborhood of majestic towering trees it also brings blackouts when the branches fall.

{the thermometer on the stove top read 350 degrees}

Last Monday the schools closed for bad weather, and the kids and I started baking banana bread to celebrate the snow day (it should have been called an ice day!). But then the power went out and we tried to bake it in a cast iron griddle on the woodstove...

{Rosie being a good sport}

It came out quite burnt but we ate some anyway! Luckily our kitchen stove is gas and works during blackouts, and husband added some milk and oil to the remaining banana bread batter and made some really tasty banana pancakes! Power finally came back at 9:00 that night, and although the woodstove did not cook well, it kept us toasty all day.

Loretta

correction - I'm sure the woodstove would cook well if I knew how to do it!