Bored-er Collies

The whole family has had a miserable week. I started last Monday with a (thankfully mild) cold, just enough to be a little uncomfortable and under the weather. Then Wednesday Bernard and I came down with a horrible little stomach bug. Late Thursday/early Saturday ED and DH succumbed, and the next day ED and Bernard both got the cold I had. It has been a really slow moving crowd. Just ask the dogs. They’ve never been so bored.

I think we’re all better now, thank goodness!

Soup and Foul Weather

It really is November—the weather is funky (35° and raining right now), the fire in the wood cookstove is everybody’s best friend, and all I want to cook is soup.

Last night we had a venison and cabbage concoction that was better than the sum of its parts, as soup so often is, and two nights before that it was chicken and dumplings, which was wonderful—very comforting in the face of looming winter.

What is your favorite soup this time of year?

Today in the Kitchen

For some reason, even though yesterday was a glorious indian summer day—warm, with bright blue skies and beautiful fall colors—all I wanted to do was cook. So that’s what I ended up doing all day! I made a gallon of yoghurt, a couple of big loaves of bread, a vat of tomato meat sauce with our neighbor’s grass fed beef, to be used for lasagne later this week, and a big batch of homemade doughnuts (which turned out to be our supper). This morning I got up early and made bangers and mash for breakfast before DH left for work.

Industrious little me!