A busy week

It's been a busy week here.  We don't often go to the big city, but this week we went twice to pick up insulation for the garage and a little Christmas shopping. It's very cold here, but the highway was clear after last week's storm.

Still on the highway, but in the city there are massive power lines.  As ugly as they are, but cool in a certain way, we'd be a little lost without power.

Shooting out the window of the truck I happened to get a little burst of light while trying to get a shot of the snow mountain in the parking lot.

Back at home and back in the warm kitchen, we decided on roasted winter vegetables for dinner.  A little salt and pepper then topped with chopped garlic and scallions and baked in the oven.  Oh my, they were delicious.

My son and daughter-in-law gave me a new cookbook, The Complete Book of Bread & Bread Machines so I tried a new recipe, French Dimpled Rolls.  I lost the dimple during the proofing and baking, but they were so good.  The recipe can be found all over the internet if you google French Dimpled Rolls.

I hope you all had a good week and thank you for such a warm welcome back.

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Christmas Cooking

A friend reminded me today that I had to take a snack to the camera club for the Christmas Potluck snack so I baked tonight.

Celebrating Life

(with a cup of tea, a Christmas cookie and my daughter's china)

The theme last week of gratitude at Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday, has kept me thinking about all the things I'm grateful for.  My husband, my children and their families, my little grandson, my sister, my friends and even my job are some of the things I'm grateful for.  This week's theme of  "celebrate" would have been easy with the upcoming Christmas season and all the decorations and ornaments, but I keep thinking of gratitude.  One thing I'm most grateful for is the life I have to be able to enjoy the things I'm grateful for.  So after a first round of Christmas baking I decided to enjoy a cup of tea and a cookie and celebrate my life, after of course photographing it.  The texture used on this is Kim Klassen's dream.  If you mouse over the picture, you can see the before and after.