We did not lose power in any of the three storms, each of which dropped a foot of snow, or more on us. We live about a mile from a major electrical station, so if there is power outage, we are about the first to get repaired. I hope you do get to see at least some of the eclipse, BakerAunt. I suspect your viewing might be similar to ours -- we live at the 98+% range of total eclipse. Traffic is already impacting travel around here,and worse is expected. We have experience - the Phish concert in a farmer's field happened north of us, years ago. I'm not leaving my house! I'll be watching from my deck.
Today I made sauce from last summer's tomatoes, and we had some on pasta and some went into the freezer. I've been baking focaccia to use for ham sandwiches to use up the Easter ham. I've been slowed down by some major vision issues for the last couple of weeks. I'm blind in one eye, due to my stroke 7 years ago, but I lost vision in my good eye. After several visits to some physicians, my retina specialist diagnosed and treated it, and I am now back to normal. But it was scary.
I made two loaves of pumpernickel bread, ready for leftover ham!
We had an orange chicken stir fry for dinner.
I made a large pot of clam chowder today, so dinner was a bowl of chowder with rolls from the freezer.
Interesting article. I live about 1/2 mile north of a hydroponic tomato farm which has solar panels for power. The tomatoes are delicious, a little more expensive than typical market winter tomatoes, but well worth it. The operation is much smaller than those talked about in the article; it's more like a small, local Vermont farm - which it what it really is. The Little Leaf Lettuce they talked about is available in several local chain groceries, and it is good quality and reasonably priced.
We had chicken thighs, an assortment of roasted veggies, and asparagus from the freezer. We should be getting fresh asparagus from the garden in another four weeks.
Today I baked 2 loaves of Harvest Grains bread.
We cleaned out the fridge for dinner! Except, I think I put back more than we took out. . .
Our dinner was boneless pork chops, buttercup squash from the freezer, roasted veggies - potatoes, carrots, onions, red and green bell peppers, and a green salad from the sun room.
We had beef stew for dinner. We got 20" of snow yesterday and overnight - our only real snowstorm this winter - Mother Nature making up for lost opportunities.
Today I made focaccia to go with soup from the freezer for dinner tonight. We have about 12 inches of snow, since around 2 a.m., and are supposed to get another 6 inches, until about 8 p.m. tonight. This is more snow than we have had, total, all winter!
Today I made Chocolate Chip Oatmeal cookies using the KAF recipe. I reduced the amount of chips from 3 cups to 2 cups and baked them for only 12 minutes. They are perfect: crispy-chewy!
We had salmon on the grill, baked potato, and fresh green beans.
Dinner tonight was Philly-style cheesesteak on homemade buns with french fries.
We had ribs on the grill, with macaroni salad and last year's asparagus from the freezer. Six weeks and we might be eating fresh asparagus!! It's been a crazy winter, no snow and record breaking high temperatures, so I'm hoping the asparagus wakes up early.
