Interesting crowd at the store last night...absolutely packed (DUH!), but everyone was being so nice to each other. I suspect nobody wanted to be put on the "naughty" list so close to the big day.

It was an interesting conundrum...we're hosting 15 family members Sunday...but they probably won't make it down through the white apocalypse. To buy or not to buy, that is the question! We bought...

As for the survival list...holding aside the party food for Sunday...I guess it's frozen pizzas and a hearty red wine by the fireplace!

It's a perfect day to wrap presents, make cookies, make a pot of chili or homemade soup, finished stringing the lights on the tree ... but I also hope that the power stays on!

roast chicken to make the house smell good. chicken noodle soup tomorrow for the late game

On a marginally related topic, how can I find out if the Waverly farmer's market is still happening today?

Great question. You can ask me. Yes, it is. Please take a photo and e-mail it to me at elizabeth.large@baltsun.com. In fact, I'm going to do a post on it. EL

I feel for y'all. Here, to cheer you up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaUBpsn4QjQ

I'd rather fast than go without electricity. I'd rather drink a shot of buttermilk and listen to opera than lose electricity.
Extremes I'd go to to keep electrcity:
- watch hockey
- darn socks
- read Milton
- eat canned cranberries
- work on a saturday
- devein shrimp
- wait in line for gas
- bowl
- sit up straight
- clean behind the refrigerator

Captcha: Aplomb jailed

NO, NO, NOT HOCKEY!!!!!! el

I'm in Smithfield, VA this weekend, and there is no snow here. The forecast is for ham and lots of it. The ham is expected to mix with chicken and crabmeat later today and then go back to all ham by tomorrow.

Arrggh! I really want to make some Boston Baked Beans, but the oven is tied up baking biscotti. Only 32 dozen left to make.

tellegen humphrey??

While baking cinnamon rolls this morning, I decided to bake a package of bacon for a BLT lunch. Always thinking about the next meal.

I'm from North Carolina, and down there we always made snow cream in the rare event of snow accumulation. I'm going to introduce my husband to this concoction today!

I might do some baking later, but snow days are the gods way of making sure I get enough time in to play computer games.

I'm with you on the Milton, jl, but the two things I miss the most about living on the border are "The National" on the CBC and "Hockey Night in Canada."

Oh Laura, we do snow ice cream too. I grew up in upstate New York but my mom was from Mississippi and that was her snow memory. Now I do it with my kids here.

I will make a big pot of potato cheddar soup today And do some baking- sweet potato muffins, ginger cookies. The house will smell great.

My husband thinks its very weird that people are talking about the food they are going to make today in the snow. What does he know.

Canon, I made Laura Vozzella's "lazy" almond biscotti last week and they were a big hit at work. Now I have oatmeal-ginger-dried cranberry cookies in the oven--they will look festive, I hope.

But life is too short to read Milton, jl.

Edith pore: Cleatus's beautician name?

We always make chili since it helps keep the kitchen warm and makes the house smell great; plus, a Clipper City Heavy Seas Winter Storm pairs perfectly.

Unfortunately, we won't be making chili today. We were supposed to be on a 7:00 AM flight this morning and thus did not stock up on the required ingredients. Now, we're stuck using vacation days waiting for our rescheduled WEDNESDAY flight.

I forgot one! Vegetable broth concentrate. Granted it has a sizable amount of sodium, but it makes a good starter for soups and sauces.

Unfortunately, if the Waverly market was open, everyone had packed up and left by the time I went to check it out. Now it's likely nobody else will try, but I thought I'd give a warning to any other explorers who were going to walk over.

jl, malt does more than Milton can to justify snow days to man.

Already been out for the first (I suspect of many) attempts to clear the walk and the car. Ground beef thawing for spaghetti tonight. I don't have all the ingredients for chili and I'm kind of tired of it anyway. Butter getting to be room temp for another attempt to make a pound cake that will not stick in the mold. Lots of presents to wrap & lots off chocolate. Please let us not lose power!

Mmm - snow cream! (I'm from TN - but I had no idea until I read this that it's a Southern thing.)

I bought the ingredients for potstickers from scratch today (as opposed to my usual frozen potstickers cheating). Lots and lots of hot dumplings. I made posole (minus the pig's head) last weekend, or that would have been my snow day treat.

And of course hot chocolate for post-dog romping warm-ups.

Toasty bagels were a good start after we hit Sam's Bagels while exploring the neighborhood in the snow. On tap for the rest of the day: leek and potato soup with grilled cheese for lunch, and 'potluck' fondue with homemade bread at dinner (sister-in-law and husband are making the nine block trek to us and donating whatever cheese they have).

He conspiring

Yum! EL

I'm making a ridiculously simple recipe for beef stew cooked on low in the oven for 5 hours. It would probably work in the crockpot too, but this way the kitchen keeps warm. By the time it's ready the great smell has me ravenous.
Question: Why are there no longer willing teenagers with shovels looking to earn some money? Or is it just my neighborhood that's lacking?

Tweety Cat, I'm sitting here ready to write a big check to the first one who shows up at my door! Not one in sight!

Snow shovellers are all over here in the SE, both adults and kids.

Joyce, have you tried lining the pan with parchment paper? Even waxed paper?

There were a couple of guys (not teens) walking around near CVS in FH bragging about how they would dig you out of anything, just call them - not that they were advertising their phone numbers...

proxy adored

Two kinda scruffy guys (not that there's anything wrong with that...) stopped by this morning offering to shovel my sidewalk (in upper Fells Point) for five dollars. Seemed (and still seems) absurd, with the snow still falling pretty heavily.

I live in the suburbs, Randallstown/Owings Mills area, so guess I'm too isolated. Although I'm about one mile from a high school, so there are teens around. Actually a neighbor just used his snowblower on part of my walk, so it's only going to have one foot instead of two feet of snow!

I was just made to go out due to *someone* needing oyster/clam chowder, so i guess that is a need as well

next nittany: where i will suggest someone go next time.

It's been a productive day in the kitchen here. Grilled cheese sandwiches (on homemade rye) for a late breakfast. I canned the chicken stock that I made yesterday, white sandwich bread is rising in the pain de mie pan (I made rye sandwich bread yesterday), and I sliced up beef tenderloin odds and ends from the freezer, which will become dinner with some mushrooms, garlic, beef stock, and other things.

I also got a pork roast out of the freezer to thaw for tomorrow's dinner.

The pound cake came out of the bundt thing. My earlier shoveling is re-buried AND now, drifted over also. As a matter of fact, ALL the drift seems to be on my side of the parking lot. I feel like Eeyore. Oh me, oh my.

I made snow ice cream a bit ago, but I didn't have cream, so I didn't use the recipe from Rob Kasper in the photo gallery I made. I used milk and a different recipe, but it turned out pretty good. Slushy but yummy.

Made a chicken pot pie last night. Unfortunately didn't quite last as long as I'd hoped.

I might have to break into the freezer for frozen goodies for a paella.

Am also considering latkes and guacamole.

El Gen, latkes and guacamole is something I've never considered before but it sure sounds good!

In this small fort, besieged with snow,
When every studious pulse beats low,
What does my wish require?
Some sprightly girls beneath my roof,
Some friends sincere and winter-proof,
A bottle and a fire.

Prolong, O snow, prolong thy siege!
With these, thou wilt but more oblige,
And bless me with thy stay;
Extend, extend thy frigid reign,
My few sincerer friends detain,
And keep false friends away.

by: William Shenstone

Latkes and guacamole? Interesting thought! Mom arrived earlier in the week with her luggage stuffed with home-grown avocados. I was just marking a couple of promising avocado recipes in Bon Appetit (my consolation prize for the end of Gourmet--somehow I am not consoled). But avocado pesto might work.

tenure Thieves (does Captcha know we are an academic family?)

Jon Parker you brought a peaty little tear to my eye.

between pileUps

While I was drinking hot chocolate (marshmallows would have been nice) and baking chocolate chip cookies while dipping pretzels in chocolate, the 12 year old down the block knocked on the door. I actually agreed to pay him twice what he asked for and still felt bad that he was working so hard. There are a lot of high school-sized kids on the other end of the block but only this one kid ever asks about mowing or shoveling.

bor Blanking.....yeah, as a matter of fact.

No post, just this:

"exchange $1.7-billion"

Not sure how 'snow-propriate' it is, but I decided to try making caramel corn for the first time ever. Making caramel from scratch is surprisingly fulfilling, especially since 75% of the way there you're saying to yourself: "This doesn't look right, I know I'm doing it wrong."

My one piece of advice in making caramel corn is to make sure you separate the unpopped kernels before mixing in the caramel. In an unrelated note, anybody know a dentist that makes housecalls in a snowstorm?

Oh, poor Lee Blars!

$43,759.57 Amicably Oh-kay then!

Lee, you loose a filling? I hope not.

When I was a kid, I decided to make molasses taffy one night when Mom was out somewhere with my little brother. I was probably 7 or so.

I got out the Joy of Cooking, then all my ingredients and equipment, just like Mom had taught me. All was fine until I got to the pulling part. I pulled the mass apart, and the centre heard the call of gravity, and headed for the floor.

Mom had also taught me that all messes went in the basement utility sink, so I raced there with the rest of the taffy to be. Dumped it in.

When Mom got home, I was on my hands and knees with a flat head screw driver and a hammer, trying to get the taffy up.

I'm not much of a candy maker.

But you're a great teller of stories, Lissa!

YORK Mask: Cleatus's wrestling name.

Thank you, Dahlink. I bet you are really glad you aren't my mother, though.

Yesterday two young men who live in our row-house neighborhood were shoveling sidewalks for whatever the "traffic would bear." We paid $30 to one man to do the front and back walks, and he finished each in about 5 minutes. Best $30 I've ever spent. They were pretty enterprising, and I'd be surprised if each came away with less than $200 for a couple of hours' work. I know I was glad to see them -- my husband has a broken wrist, so I would've been the one shoveling.

Waiving Teng (Cleatus' Asian chef name)

Lissa, counting my blessings, counting my blessings.

Reptiles 6.1--the latest version.

Saturday was a big pot of spaghetti, and a big bottle of cheap red wine. Sunday was a big breakfast of country ham, eggs, biscuits and coffee to fuel me up for digging out our 2 cars, and a pot of chili to warm up with afterwards.

On Saturday after golf, we grilled tenderloin steaks, and made some sweet potato fries to go with them. We also had good beer and cheap red wine with it.

Ok, so maybe we didn't get snow, but it was darn chilly!

Glassier Ballet=Cleatus' dance studio

"Guzzled Approving", me after hours of shoveling snow!

Spam at 6:19 AM! (The alleged scam-free work-from-home site is fake; instead, you are led to a separate site which tries to install malware on your computer and sell you a "deal-of-the-day" and like stuff.)

This is the same spammer who used a different nym at 5:18 AM, but was exposed by Joyce W. on the "Happy Fourth" topic.

Annoying repeat spam at 10:10 pm.

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