It's finally feeling like Christmastime, but there's still not a speck of snow and the weather continues unseasonably warm. I'm not complaining...
 | Yesterday (and every Sunday in December) was Stitch'n'bitch time at the Hilltop
(our house): generally lots of stitching, minimal bitching and a big pot of soup. Yesterday
we also went christmas tree hunting, did some baking and eggnog drinking, listened to some christmas carols and did a
christmas card photo shoot.
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| Classmates Talia and Lauren cutting down their tree. |
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| Our cozy house in the sunshine, photo taken by the lovely Lauren. |
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| The disaster that is our kitchen, partially justified by the excuse that we only have hot water when there's a fire in the wood stove. |
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| The traditional christmas fruit cake that we all love to hate. This year I tried a new recipe, leaving out the sugar, substituting chocolate and crystalized ginger for the glacee cherries (b/c it's better that way) and whiskey/wine for the milk, to compensate for aging time lost (I should have baked it weeks ago so it could get properly old and boozy). Plus, I'm worried that the middle didn't cook enough b/c the oven was so hot....It could easily be argued that the finished product will have very little in common with the original recipe, let's hope it's still worth eating! Eating....What to make for Christmas dinner-for-two has been on my mind lately. Cornish game hens? | | |
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