Ramblings from White Mountain
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2009
Snow level on the mountains and hills surrounding us is right at 3000′ give or take a few feet, depending entirely on southern exposure. We have kept a dusting of snow around the house but it won’t last through the morning, once we emerge from the mountain shadow. When we lived in Alaska, the first […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
This is my first attempt at making cinnamon rolls which are both gluten free and lactose free. Dan has the first one on his plate and I’m awaiting the verdict…. Pretty good, and not bad, but the cinnamon isn’t as strong as in the past. So, after these are done, and when it snows again, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2009
Yesterday the last of our winter supply of firewood was tucked away under cover. And not a moment too soon! Preserving absolute calm here now. It’s sticking though and not slacking off yet. It will no doubt melt before too long. Which means I have to be quick. Family tradition is to make cinnamon rolls […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2009
Play on the computer, make lemon coconut blueberry muffins, play fetch with the cat, and watch wildlife. Great focus on the tree in front of the bear. Sigh. Stupid camera. Anyway, Terry let us know this bear was coming up the hill towards the house before it got very close. This isn’t a little bear […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2009
Ever have one of those days when you know you shouldn’t be allowed to handle sharp objects, and you shouldn’t try to do anything more complicated than sit quietly on the couch with a paperback book in your hands as a hard-bound book might be too much to handle? Well today was one of those […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2009
The “Bangles” wrote a song about this, “It’s Just Another Muffin Monday,” and so it was my theme song for the day. I’m baking a loaf of bread as well. Dan is playing music and entertaining us. Terry is on bear lookout watch today; she spotted a large cinnamon brown black bear coming up the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 22nd, 2009
First day of fall – my favorite season! I was experimenting today with my bread recipes and made a batch of cinnamon pecan sticky buns. This morning Mishkin told Dan that he had cornered a mouse under the bag that we use to bring firewood into the house. Dan moved the bag and, oh joy, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 18th, 2009
Continuing my search for good breads, I experimented today. I have a four flour bread mix that I made from my gluten-free baking cookbook, and we don’t really care for it, though I did made a cinnamon raisin bread from it that was good. As a plain bread… not so much. I have quite a […]