Gorgeous, as always!
I have been crazy busy lately. Matao's cousins from Australia are in town visiting, my brother and his girlfriend Liz made a quick stop-through on Sunday/Monday, and we had a pretty decent sized "Non Denominational Holiday Dinner and Gift Exchange" on Sunday night, where I assisted my brother in making the best moose meatloaf ever with tons of garlic, onions, and fresh mint (!!!) Thanks greatly to our dad for sending my brother with a styro full of game meat! Moose meat is so clean and flavorful that it lends so well to simple dishes with a few good additions. There were actually two vegetarians at the party who tried it and loved it (I won't name names!)
Last night I bottled up all of my homemade vanilla extract. It smells and tastes wonderful. I used a bit of it when I made vanilla cupcakes on Sunday- and although the cupcakes were a total flop (don't get me started) they still had great vanilla flavor. After this I think I'll have a very hard time buying pre-made vanilla extract ever again.
Apple Spiral from Laurie York
Our CSA boxes the past month have been overflowing with potatoes and apples. The potatoes get used up quickly, but Matao isn't much of a fruit eater, and we have more than I can even begin to put a dent into. A lot of the apples are starting to go soft on top of that. I'm thinking I'll end up making applesauce, but I'm having a hard time getting excited about it. Does anyone have any other suggestions, or maybe even just a good twist to put on applesauce? If I do make it I'll be canning most of it, and if it's going to take up precious pantry space it had better be amazing!
Aside from any of that... I am dying for snow. Seattle just doesn't cut it in that department. I'm not going home for Christmas this year, either, so I guess I'll just have to enjoy it via other peoples photos that I stole from Flickr. Hah!
Sigh.
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