[Mike Nolan]

We missed out on the snow but got the cold, the expected high today is 38 and down into the teens overnight.

[Mike Nolan]

It's Monday, so we had mac & cheese. 🙂

[Mike Nolan]

It got down to about 23.5 here last night, and the vines that were looking pretty sad looked really bad today. But the person who helps us with our gardening usually spends a few hours here on Mondays, and she cleaned up the garden for us, so now the cages just look forlorn.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm making the dough for another batch of sourdough cheese crackers, this time I'm using fine ground whole wheat durum flour instead of my coarse ground hard red wheat flour.

[Mike Nolan]

The pot roast was delicious, possibly the best one I've made, though I'm not sure what, if anything, I did differently.

[Mike Nolan]

I was terrible at pie crusts before going to pastry school at SFBI. I thought our instructor was going to despair of my ever making an acceptable pie crust in class, but I kept making them at home afterwards and it took me about more 2 tries to get the process mastered. Now I'll stack my all-butter pie crusts against any bakery in town.

I still can't make a decent ruffled edge, though, I think my fingers are too big.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm making honey wheat bread today. I haven't made it in a while, but I've made it enough that I didn't need to look up the recipe.

[Mike Nolan]

Well, I'm making honey wheat bread on the new mat this evening, we'll see how it does.

[Mike Nolan]

I've made them with a few different recipes, one of them had very little leavening in it, and the bones were more likely to keep their shape, but they were quite hard to chew.

They make bone molds, mostly for dog biscuits, I think, but they'd probably work for this.

[Mike Nolan]

Are the Osso de Morto cookies shaped like bones? I made some shaped like that a few years ago, some of them looked like bones, the shaping is tricker than it seems.

[Mike Nolan]

The tomato plants were looking somewhat limp this morning, but if anything survived last night, when it hit about 32, tonight should finish them off, as the expected low is now down to 26, and 20 tomorrow night. Brrrrr!

[Mike Nolan]

We had chili from the freezer tonight, and we might get snow starting around 10PM and continuing overnight, though maybe a total of less than an inch.

[Mike Nolan]

Only got down to about 37 last night, but didn't get much above 45, the next 3 nights the predicted lows are 28, 28 and 19, so I picked what I wanted out of the garden. (I stopped picking green tomatoes a few years ago, they never taste that good and I can get decent tomatoes at the store most of the time.)

[Mike Nolan]

I'm not sure if my apple scrap jelly set, though it looked good in the pan. It looks like all 4 jars sealed, eventually.

[Mike Nolan]

Mmmm, apple pie for breakfast!

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