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No cooking tonight -- dinner was fried seafood at a local restaurant.

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Thanks, everyone. I find that brushing a tablespoon or two of heavy cream on the crust makes it look extra special. This is an old recipe from my husband's family, the kind that says "bake in a moderate oven" and no specific details.

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I made chicken thighs, wild rice, and cauliflower for dinner tonight.

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Dinner tonight was ham and cheese sandwiches on rye, with potato chips.

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Today I made my husband's birthday cake - it's a two-crust cream pie.

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We had pasta with a sausage, onions, and peppers marinara (from the freezer, so just needed to cook the cavitappi) and a green salad.

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I've made seafood salad, cauliflower salad, and a green salad for our dinner. It feels almost like spring here, 41* with temps in the 40s predicted for the next week or more. The 20 inches of snow we got 2 weeks ago is almost gone.

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I would love to be stranded in San Diego for a few days -- my favorite city in the world! I'm sure they took advantage of the delay and it didn't cause any serious problems.

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Today I made bagels.

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We had boneless pork chops and parsnips, butternut squash, sweet potato, Brussel sprouts, and onion, all roasted on one pan.

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I made a huge pot of chili - we each had a bowl for dinner, but the rest will go into the freezer.

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I was given a new Acu-Rite weather station, since mine was fried during our power outage Dec 16-17. I love checking rain and temperature recordings during gardening season. And I bought myself a new computer. I got my old one on Sept 12, 2012, so it is 10 years old. It's become a little slow and persnickity lately, and most all the letters have worn off the keyboard.

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We had BLTs for dinner, with lettuce from under the Gro lights. The hot house tomatoes were just OK, as expected, except the center cores were hard as a rock!

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Eggs today were 5.49/dozen! These are store-brand, not organic, not free range. Plain old large white eggs.

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Today I made broccoli soup, using broccoli frozen from last summer's garden. We'll have it tonight along with onion-wild rice rolls that I made the other day.

We're going to get another big storm tonight through Friday (thanks for sending that on to us, BakerAunt!) Rain, sleet and freezing rain, snow, but most worrisome are high winds, with gusts around 60 mph. We were without power much of last weekend, and not looking forward to more of that. We do have out of state and Canadian electric company trucks coming into the area already; they were a tremendous help last weekend.

I'm not sure what will happen to our family Christmas gathering planned for Saturday evening. My son does have solar power and a back-up battery system, so we could prepare all the food there, but that means more traveling for some people. We could gather next week!

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