November 23rd, 2007 - Weather and food
It snowed!!!! It snowed enough Wednesday evening/night that it’s still on the ground this morning (Friday). That’s atypical for first snows. Actually, it snowed on Tuesday, but it didn’t stick.
The only problem is that since it’s still be relatively “nice” for November, I planned to dig out the rutabagas and carrots yesterday. Seemed like a perfect chore for Thanksgiving Day! I’m going to recruit Eric to do it tomorrow instead as I suspect the ground will be too hard for me. I hope the rutabagas are ruined, but I wasn’t going to eat them anyway. I’m going to give them to my neighbor who loves them. It was nice to have a couple for soup stock, but I don’t think I’ll make any more stock. Maybe I will–I’ll have carrots, onions, two squashes and rutabagas I suppose. And tomatoes. Hmmm…might have to do that Sunday!
All last week, I made coffeecakes for breakfasts. Unfortunately, Eric and I really like different ones. LOL I figured out a solution for two of them. He and Maggie can’t have nuts–so I put nuts on 1/3rd of it before the topping and I get nuts! He also didn’t like the nutmeg in one, so I can put that on my side with the topping as well! The only drawback to the coffeecakes is that they use 100% white flour. I’m not sure how they’ll do with whole wheat, but I’ll start trying that next. (Actually, I think I used 1/4 ww in one of them. I hope I noted it!) I guess I finally got bored with the bread machine fruit breads. I’ll still make them, however, as I have lots of dried zucchini to use up. The nice thing is that Eric eats them, and he doesn’t care for the fruit breads, except banana.
I’ve avoided bananas since summer. The 90% reduction made me think about how non-local they are. We still buy them for Maggie–they help keep her regular we think–but I haven’t eaten one on my own in ages. I sometimes eat part of hers when she doesn’t finish it. And I’ll make a banana bread tomorrow as one went too soft to eat. I’ve barely missed them since I have so many other local fruit to eat–peaches, blueberries, apples, pears.