A Christmas miracle occurred on Friday. The snowblower finally showed up after innumerable phone calls to the vendor and the delivery company. It works well. Jim is relearning cord management and to be aware of the wind direction when you start throwing snow.
There was enough wind to knock over the inflatable snow man. He spent all day on his face, poor snow man!
Christmas was fun. The weather was not terrible as it had been forecast to be. We decided we should get the snow shoes out since we will soon be under a severe weather advisory. Here's part of it. "Dangerously cold temperatures will impact Eastern Washington and North Idaho Sunday night through at least Thursday with the arrival of an Arctic air mass. High temperatures will only warm into the single digits and teens. Overnight lows will likely drop into the single digits to below zero. Wind chills of minus ten degrees or colder will be possible in some of our wind prone areas." It's going to be really cold, some of the nights will be below 0. The rest of the country is unseasonably warm. It's not fair!
When we got back from snow shoeing, we decided that we should make dinner rolls. We used this recipe. The first package of yeast we had was dead. So much for organic yeast! The Fleischmann's instant yeast was quite energetic. The hand mixer we got to make cookies also has dough hooks. It worked like a champ, I never realized that you just beat the dough longer with the hook and that replaces kneading. After an hour in the warm part of the basement, it had doubled. We cut it into 16 pieces and made rolls. They had a second rise and got puffy again.
Et voila! After baking we have dinner rolls.
These are so good when they are hot. Jim and I split one and he made the mistake of walking away from his last bite, and I ate it. They're also good cold.
Today was good, we took four pairs of shoes back to REI and two pairs of jeans back to Fred Meyer and managed to get it all done before the stores got crowded. It was good to get them out of the house and back where they came from. I still have a jacket under consideration. It's sort of suboptimal, but finding a warm coat now is nigh on to impossible. REI's shelves were picked clean, especially the wool socks racks. I may end up keeping it, even thought it's not exactly what I wanted.
Other than this paltry offering, I have zippity doo dah to say.
We got hammered with snow and now cold weather. We're not used to it and many of us aren't prepared. I'm not the most confident snow driver!
ReplyDeleteI saw pictures on twitter of Seattle, and it looks bad. My snow driving skills have dried up due to lack of use. At least the forecast has changed to less snow than before.
DeleteIt's 47 here and I'm about froze. I really don't think I could handle those winters anymore. But we have had rain. AJ received an inch and a half on Christmas Eve day and we're getting more this week. Spring flowers in the desert ought to be fabulous.
ReplyDeleteIt's not unusual to be in the low 70s on Christmas Day down here but the weather we're having is really warm and sustained. Spring weeds already showing up. I suppose I prefer that to what's happening up there. And those rolls do look good.
ReplyDeleteWe're getting the cold weather here too. This morning it was -15F with a windchill of -41F when I went out to feed the birds. There is about 3 inches of fresh snow on the driveway and sidewalks but I won't be clearing them off until there is a bit of a break in the weather. Perhaps tomorrow morning when the windchill is expected to be -25F. Sadly that will feel balmy after todays temps.
ReplyDeleteThe buns look delicious! I got a new mixer for Christmas with dough hooks so I may have to try them out.
How weird about the yeast! Wonder what happened there? Glad the snow blower works well! I do not envy you your cold weather.
ReplyDeleteThose rolls look divine! and I bet they made the whole house smell good too! A good thing to do on a snowy day.
ReplyDeleteThose buns look so good, hot out of the oven with butter melting on them, yum.
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