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January 31, 2025
this week
January 08, 2025
what we made
Soap on the Winter Solstice
Solstice treats for the feathered ones.
Peppermint Bark (more on that below)
Cottage Pie.
Lots of hot things in our mugs.
Cookies!
Maple Nutmeg and Gingerbread
Dog Treats.
Clay Ornaments.
O Christmas Tree.
M & M Bark.
1 Sock (ahem) 2 Pomanders.
Egg Salad Sandwiches.
Chili and Cornbread.
Paper Bag Stars.
Finished a chicken started long ago.
Started cutting squares for a quilt...
We have been busy welcoming 2025 and everyone is now back to school and work. I was MIA on the blog over Christmas. I really hadn't planned to be away for so long, but life gets so full sometimes. I thought I would update with a little recap of a few of what we made.
We made our annual Peppermint Bark, from here. We gifted some and kept some and topped coffees and hot chocolate. It is SO good. December, year ending and January, year beginning has been a good and nice time full of making.
I hope you had wonderful holidays!
~tina
December 19, 2024
December days
Oh these December days are good for knitting, drinking coffees and eating. I love going out to the coop this time of year and pampering the hens, a thank you for these eggs_ when the days are short. We have been finishing up our decorating and these days seem so full and so good. Early mornings with strong hot black coffee, afternoons with sweet latte's ~ antidotes and trying to find balance between the busyness of all that the season brings and my tendencies to want to turn inward too, la la la pass the yarn. This next week we celebrate the Winter Solstice, which has always been a very special time of year for me, my birthday, the return of light, the 12 days of Christmas and sharing gifts we have thoughtfully picked out or made for each other. I wish you a blessed and wonderful stretch of these last December days!!
December 07, 2024
Broccoli and Cheese Soup
We are down to just 2 pumpkins, and at the rate I'm giving them to the chickens, they won't still be here when the Winter Solstice arrives. I gave them (the chickens) one yesterday and today I gave them a whole bunch of asparagus ferns. It has been a few nights and mornings of freezing weather, and not too much above, during the day. Today is 50 degrees and sunny and it felt so nice. The house is cold tho and I'm itching to light that first fire, not yet...not yet! It feels like a very special thing, that first fire. I'm waiting for the right time. In the kitchen I made Chili a few days ago and now Broccoli and Cheese Soup, with lots of onion, garlic and pepper. It is a soup I have made for a long time, tweaking it and changing it ever so slightly. I think I'm settling in on this version right here and I wanted to share the recipe, so you can make it too.
~ Broccoli and Cheese Soup ~
Start by steaming 4 cups of broccoli by chopping
while the broccoli steams start your soup:
1 small onion
1 carrot
1/2 stick butter
Saute' til soft
add 1/4 cup of flour and cook for a few minutes.
add 1 quart of stock (beef, chicken or veggie)
Add 1 cup 1/2 and 1/2
Add 1 package of cream cheese
1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese
cover and simmer.
Add the steamed broccoli to the mixture.
Add freshly grated cheddar cheese, take off the heat and stir it in.
I season the soup at the end.
I add a generous amount of granulated garlic, celery salt, onion powder and pepper.
I leave large pieces of veggies, you can blend it or mash it if you like it smoother.
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