Snowed in!

We are enjoying our 1-2 feet of snow! Many pictures online at http://picasaweb.google.com/bennerj8/SnowStormBigOne# for those that wish to see more. We are about to stock up the fire, bundle up and head out to try out Kali's Christmas present - a runner sled!

We are also enjoying the time indoors. Kali invented a soup recipe and wanted to try it last evening. She was very cute writing up a few instructions like "stirred until cooked." Here it is in case you wish to try it:

Chicken (we used our home canned)
Potatoes (grown next door and given to us by our generous neighbor)
Chicken broth (also our canned broth)
Water (as much as needed to make right consistency)
Barley (or rice if you are out of barley and snowed in!!)
Lentils
Salt (we also added some garlic for extra flavor)
Oil (doesn't really need it but we had to follow the recipe)

She stirred and stirred and then played for awhile when it wasn't done in the 5 minutes she allotted for it to cook. She ate two bowls of it and determined it to be delicious soup that someone might want to buy the recipe for. :) We don't plan to sell the recipe but feel free to try it out! No specific amounts of each ingredient determined.

We've been eating yummy foods all weekend. This morning's breakfast topped it off and should sustain us for a long time of snow playing. With the smell of fresh bread in the oven, we sat down to chicken sausage (Jason's first time making it from the dark meat of our chickens), roasted brussel sprouts with fresh garlic and rosemary (thanks to generosity of friends), and an egg, bread, cheese bake. Yum! Now off to utilize the energy it provided us and to have more snow fun. I hope we'll all still be feeling positive towards the snow when it comes time to shovel our way out when we actually have a commitment (work tomorrow for me!) to be somewhere other than here at home!!