cheese is not a food group?

hmm... it might be said that i possibly tend to cook in large quantities for feeding the masses of two here. but someone was kind enough to help me out this holiday season. so now i can make individual soups ...and individual stuffed mushrooms!

p.s. yes, cheese probably occurs in almost everything i cook.

it is! it is!

on Christmas morn, we gathered the carrots.
By Christmas afternoon, only a spoonful was left.

there may be a reindeer or two around here later.
Happy Christmas to all...

it's beginning to look even more like ...

cheeseball.
ch3x mix.

and mashed potatoes on the menu for tomorrow.

it's beginning to look a lot like ...

it's such a small (fake) tree; we hung all ten Clauses in the window!
then it was thyme for a little baking ... parmesan thyme crackers, that is. ha. haha. er. hohoho.
which surprisingly turned out a little too rich and buttery for my taste...
i'll have to suffer through.

gingerbread waffles

someone sent some wonderful spices for my birthday. so wonderful, i was feeling a little intimidated by the box of warm, yummy goodness perched on the kitchen counter. this morning, i gave in and whipped up (quite literally, as i managed to separate my egg and whip the white to fold into the batter - yeah me!) a few waffles. the whole house smells of gingery-cinnamon yumminess.

random predictions

I received the prior message from a gentleman this morning. He was quite sincere in both his distribution efforts and his gratitude for those who took one of the hundreds of small, carefully printed, copied, cut and folded missives.

p.s. edited to note that the phone numbers appear to be for the supr3me c0urt and the s3cret s3rvice.

p.p.s. this was my first test blog directly from the phone. eek... mobile blogging. what is the world coming to?

two things

1. they really can be quite sweet. sometimes.

and 2. spinach + delicata squash + some other goodies ...

really rather tasty. and healthy (we are assuming).

it's the little things

back around my birthday, i was all excited about this ... and now, not quite 4 weeks later (because i don't drive a lot) ...
craziness abounds!

p.s. i now have 52 hours to learn everything you never wanted to know about evidence. oh how i do not enjoy exam time.

a little snow

a very little snow. almost enough to cover the ground last night;
this morning, it was all but gone.

more ironical if you worked there ...

p.s. glass doors just to left of wall.

homemade cranberry sauce - who knew?

easy peasy - you just put all this in a pan:
[plus a little sugar] and let it cook!