More Snow Expected---What's New?

A cold morning, twenty degrees, though it was ten last night when we went to bed.  It must be warming up though its only 7:00 in the morning.  The lake has a glow to it , as it does mostly at night, because the light comes from below, not above if its cloudy.  We watched MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE last night, at my sister Ellen's recommendation and liked it quite a bit.  All three male leads are very real, the writing is excellent and it portrays the diminishing macho world of men, as they age and face their mortality and changing lives, physical and psychological.  One is in the process of divorce, one is married with three kids, a salesmen for his father, the final one is a 'has been' part time actor, kind of a Dick Allen, our friend from Hawaii.  Not much on the schedule for today, a trip to the North Harmony transfer and most likely, a trip to Wegman's, to stock up for the week, mostly tomorrow's dinner with Ron and Linda Mc Clure.  We are going to have my new favorite, tas kebab, a simple Turkish stew on either eggplant puree or mashed potatoes, depending on your tastes. We have rediscovered it over the past few months and it's one of my favorite dinners.  Basically its a slow cooked stew of beef or lamb, with onions, tomatoes, Alleppo or Marash pepper, and cloves----that's it.  Turks even use tomato paste instead of tomatoes.

Yum

Since I am talking about cooking, I bought an APP from Apple called Yummy Soup, half price supposedly, which organizes recipes and allows you to download them easily from the web.  So far, I am not too impressed but will have to see if I learn more about it.

A busy day in the kitchen for Evie, a bit more me.  I made two loaves of multigrain sourdough sandwich bread, getting the starter going yesterday, putting it in the fridge overnight, then bringing it out to the furnace room when I got up, letting if proof for a couple of hours, before combining it with all the ingredients, kneading it, letting it rise twice, than bake for a half an hour.  They are marvelous loafs, easy to make.  While I did this with Evie, she also made a Turkish soup with lentils, wheat berries, and chickpeas, a semolina cake with pistachios and sugar syrup poured over the top, and got things ready for our dinner tomorrow, a spinach borek and tas kebab.  O, yea, we also went to Weggies, getting home about 12:30, just in time to put the bread in individual pans and rise a second time.

Now its 3:40 and snowing pretty hard so we are going snow shoeing at the campground for an hour or so; we like it snowy and though it's not that cold, about 28, there's a wind which makes it pretty cold none the less.