Coconut and Raspberry Chocolate Pancakes

Raspberry, chocolate, and coconut are a wonderful combination of flavors.  I don't think I have given this group of ingredients their proper due.  I deserve more of my attention.

Raspberries grow on perennial bushes.  They are usually planted during the winter as a cane.  They lay dormant until spring.  Raspberry flowers are a major source of nectar for honeybees.  

Raspberry and Almond Overnight Oatmeal with Coconut

It is officially the holiday season.  There have already been a few Christmas or light parades, the radio stations are playing Christmas music, and I have already attended my first Christmas party.

I'm a little caught of guard that Christmas is just around the corner.  I don't purchase many Christmas presents, and fortunately I already know what I'm going to give everyone.  I don't give all of my siblings gifts.  Instead, we alternate between giving one person a gift a year.