One Mother of a Blog

It’s Saturday and it’s snowing………actually there’s a severe weather warning

The east coast blues summit is playing on radio, chicken tetrazinni and 3 cheese bread is cooking in the oven, and the snow is piling up outside.  DH, kitty and I are grooving in the kitchen.  It’s the type of day I’ve always prayed for.  Hope you are warm and cozy in your own home, with good food, good music and family.

This week’s snow makes the house picture perfect.

Today is sunny and bright but I’m home nursing one miserable cold.  This particular strain has been spreading through the office for the past month and I’ve been fighting it all week.   Yesterday I spent the day in bed with a headache, watery eyes, stuffy nose, feeling like I’ve been run over by a truck.

Today I feel well enough to make a big pot of Chickpea Chicken soup.  Hopefully the home-made stock, the spices and an extra dose of vitamin C from sitting in the sun will cure what ails me.

Catching the rays is definitely the cure all for Porsche.

With so much to do we still don’t miss television.  DH spent most of the morning, driving his tractor up and down the driveway clearing the snow and ice from Friday’s storm.

We spent the better part of an hour watching two adult bald-headed eagles and one yearling catching the wind to soar above the wetlands.   Our two pairs of binoculars  are in constant use.   The eagles live in the hills high above our home.  Earlier in the week DH noticed this guy sitting in the trees behind the house, which is the closet we have seen one yet.

The temperature was a balmy 5 degrees so we walked down through the wetlands, across the ice and counted 15 muskrats houses.   DH pointed out deer tracks, squirrel tracks and cat tracks.

For supper I used the leftover roast chicken in Chicken lettuce roll ups salad.  This I served on a bed of lettuce, topped with green onions, grated carrots and chopped almond.  A serving of frozen kung pao chicken and basmati rice completed the dinner.   It tasted better than any take out Chinese, plus we didn’t have to drive 30 kms to pick it up.

Later we sat in total darkness so we could count the stars.   Another crazy fun-filled day in the country.

Yesterday I spent the entire day in my pyjamas………cooking, reading, napping.  I made two dozen beef turnovers, using two different dough recipes.  I found the cream cheese dough more difficult to roll and it browned too much, despite cutting the cooking time by 10 minutes.

In the crock pot the beans were bubbling.   The flax side bread was waiting for its turn to pop into the oven.  And in the refrigerator was a seven layer salad.  Not a bad way to spend a cold (minus 14 degrees) day in January.