You are here: Home / winter A year ago today. There is bad weather coming again this year, too. Possible severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Cold as well. But as we’ve been hitting 70* the past couple of days, pipes shouldn’t be a problem. I hope. The Starry Night Originally published on February 16, 2021 It is 8:35 and the temperature is 12*
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I could enjoy a bowl of bread pudding this weekend, couldn’t you? Recipe: Old Fashioned Chocolate Bread Pudding Originally published on April 18, 2021 “These are the best bread pudding recipes I’ve ever come across,” said Mr. Big Food. He’s not wrong! UPDATE: If we had to choose, we’d choose the regular one. (It’s the raisins.)
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These are delicious! I wouldn’t mind having one very soon but someone’s got to get a deer first! Pardon the informality of things. The Hunters had come out and they’d just as soon use paper towels! We aim to make our guests comfortable. Recipe: Spicy Deer Meat Burgers with Lime Mayo Published on January 23, 2016
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We’ll start with one Mr. Big Food and I enjoyed tremendously over morning coffee. And two each deserving of their own spaces… That will do it for this week’s The Week in Pictures. It is 13*F right now. Stay warm and provisioned!
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Why yes, I am recycling content. It’s cold and my brain is frozen. Recipe: Potato Gnocchi Lidia Originally published on January 26, 2016 As I said, I was a bit disappointed in this dish. It was tasty, but it just didn’t work as a main dish as I had anticipated. We had it with a nice
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I was lamenting the fact that we have a lot of small kitchen appliances, and I have to find a home for our new pressure cooker. I was also looking to see what old posts folks are looking at today. I used to be on Pinterest and post all of the recipes. Many have taken
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As we say in the South, there’s you some color right there! The power line and the storm track line are not perfectly Euclid parallel but they are danged close.
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When it becomes obvious that winter is upon us, no matter where we are, we make this. This truly is beyond compare. We have four recipes for Cassoulet, but year after yer, this is the one we make. Now– off to get a lamb shank! CASSOULET I 6 servings 1 C dried small white beans
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We have so many great soup recipes it’s impossible to pick a favorite. But this one ranks up there in out top five. Mellowed leftover is even better, and it freezes well. This was one of three soups we did for a tailgate serving about 120 a few years ago, so it multiplies well, too.
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This is one of those recipes that you look at and say, “No way this is going to be good” but it is! And it’s perfect for this time of year. Takes no time to prepare, filling, and pretty festive looking, too. So as you start to get busy doing all of the things, keep
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Originally published January 2020, so excuse the references to Spring. This is one fine soup and I do believe this is a great time of year for soup. Yesterday’s Swiss Potato-Leek Soup turned out wonderfully! Paired with a nice salad, it was perfect. That one took about 30 minutes to prepare early in the morning,
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SWISS POTATO-LEEK SOUP Makes 8 to 10 servings 6 C potatoes, peeled if desired, cubed2 leeks, washed, sliced into 1-inch pieces1 large onion, chopped½ C carrots, scraped, diced½ C celery, diced1 celery top5 C chicken stock 6 sprigs parsley2 tsp salt1/8 tsp pepper1/3 C (2/3 stick) butter13-oz can evaporated milkChopped chives (to garnish individual servings)
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from The Kingdom of Books, William Dana Orcutt (1927)
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From Metropolitan Seminars in Art Portfolio 5: Composition as Pattern (1959)
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From Metropolitan Seminars in Art Portfolio 5: Composition as Pattern (1959)
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From Metropolitan Seminars in Art Portfolio 5: Composition as Pattern (1959)
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I cannot quite tell if it took out the fence or not. And it is not possible for me to walk out there. I have never seen snow covered ice this hard. The surface is so solid you could probably bounce a baseball off it. Today’s doses of F Winter stuff will be coming up
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Good morning! I shall see what sort of happy cheery content I can repost from days gone by. Poppies from somewhere near Austin, Texas last March
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[These are self-seeders and they had already been popping up by the hundred before The Great Storm of ’21 hit.] Love-in-the-Mist Originally published on May 2, 2020 Aren’t they lovely? Very attractive seed pods will form, dry up, fall to the ground, and– Voila!– next spring they’ll be back. Thanks to Daughter C who planted the
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