What a perfect way to spend a snow day. Over the last 36 hours, we have had 30" of snow and it still coming down - lightly now tho so that is a good thing.

We are going to tinker in the kitchen making a few breads from Silverton's Breads from the La Brea Bakery and have a stockpot of bones going for beef stock. That might turn into Beef Bourguignon for dinner with a hunk of fresh crusty bread.

Send me some snow please!

We started the morning with chocolate chip and butterscotch chip pancakes, homemade blueberry yogurt muffins, or and hot chocolate or coffee.

Later today, I am probably going to make a dish I jst saw on a rebroadcast of Top Chef - it just sounds AMAZING to me!

Fettuccine, Toasted Corn, Poached Shrimp, Chili, Bacon and Rosemary
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Total Time:
Under 1 Hour

Skill Level:
Moderate

Cost:
Moderate
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Chris Jones
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Ingredients
2 pounds shrimp, butterflied
1 cup corn kernals, sautéed
1 pound Fettuccine
Extra virgin olive oil, as needed
1/4 cup bacon, rendered
1 tablespoon rosemary, chopped
1 tablespoon espelette pepper
Salt, as needed
Directions
1. Cook Fettuccine in salted water. Combine cooked Fettuccine with 2 tablespoons of the salted water. 2 tablespoons olive oil, and one cup corn.

2. Season shrimp with espellete and salt and drop into extra virgin olive oil, on very low heat, and cook slowly.

3. Mix pasta and shrimp and sprinkle bacon and rosemary on top.

Snow here to Lindac....Bruce is doing babyback ribs on the smoker. Me, just got done baking Grainlady's Nutola granola. Love the nuttiness of this recipe, we use almost any nut that's in the house.

For lunch Hamburger Stew from yesterday!
This afternoon, maybe building a snow man. It is beautiful out but the roads are slick.
Bruce brought a bowl of stew and homemade rolls to a neighbor that had two teeth pulled. When he came back he said, glad he didnt have to travel anywhere today in the 'Winter Wonder Land'!

Here's some snow for you......

Thank the heavens for the neighbor boy with the snowblower!

Good heavens!! where do you live?

We are just outside Denver, CO. Elevation 6400 ft. Look at my poor broken curly willow tree branch....snapped in half. It's weather like this makes me wish I stayed at our little place in Miami Beach for the rest of the winter.

MichelleDT, wow! That's all I can say! Wow!!!!

Oh wow Michelle! I knew you guys were getting hit hard - I was wondering how our Lakers were going to make it out of there to to get to Utah, LOL. Your bread and stock sound delicious. Welcome to the forum!

Thanks for the warm welcome to the forum.

Your lakers not only made it out, they put the nugs on ice last night! ;-)

(Yeah but look what the Nuggets did to the Clippers on Thursday! Lights OUT!)

Hi Michelle, I'm waving at you from Boulder. We had less snow than you did, just 22 inches but I'm still willing to send some to Alexa. My 76 pound dog does not like the snow so in addition to shoveling the driveway and walks, Max had to shovel and tamp down a small area in the back yard so Oliver would go out. But it's sunny here and warmed up to about 30F so I am seeing some melting and evaporation now.

Lindac - thank you! I had just about given up on the mixed bean blends. I have never been able to cook them so that some types wouldn't be hard when the others were cooked. It never occurred to me to soak them; I don't think any of the mixes I have bought have said to soak.

I'm cooking beans here today also. Peruano beans - never cooked them before. I did a quick pressure cooker two minute soak then a rinse and 10 minutes under high pressure. They are just a little softer than I would have liked so I put a note in with the rest of the jar to cook for 8 minutes the next time. I'm adding smoked sausage, thyme, garlic, onion, some sort of hot pepper or chiles, and a few chopped tomatoes. I think I'll cook the rest of the ingredients together and then add the beans and just let them blend for a couple of hours since I don't want the beans to cook any more. They're not falling apart just a little softer than I would have liked. It's a good weekend for comfort foods.

Lee

Many bean soup always has some mushy beans.....and I find the red lentils completely disappear. But that's the breaks, Baby Cakes! LOL!.
Just tasted it....not quite done.....and for sure needs more ground red pepper. I may add some green jalapeno relish....just because!
I think the snow is done.....3 inches of heavy slush. My "snow boy" came with his dad and a neighbor and had me shoveled out in about 15 minutes....including a potty spot for the mini-poo to poo in!! LOL! isn't Oliver a poodle too? Seems they are like that!!

Ahhhh, I want that snow! We haven't had any snow at all. Ugly brown landscape outside. I'm bummed. I love the snow. So while I was at work today my daughter Ariel made Friendship soup and cheddar bisquits. We are still munching on the double chocolate brownies with walnuts she made yesterday. NancyLouise

Yes, Oliver is our big, black wussy poodle. You might remember that we had to take him for swimming lessons so we wouldn't have a rerun of the time when he chased a group of dogs into a lake and didn't know how to get back to the shore. The only way he likes water is in a bowl - not in a stream or a lake and definitely not as snow. OTOH our previous poodle, Brockley absolutely loved the snow and water in liquid form.

Maybe I just didn't cook the mixed bean soups long enough. I don't think I would mind some mushy beans in the soup as much as I minded the bean "rocks".

Nancylouise, I'm sure I have enough snow to send you some too. Your daughter's cheddar biscuits and brownies sound good.

Lee - waving back from Denver. That is so funny about your dog. My dad's dog is the same way, he sees the snow and he starts crying like a baby going round and round in circles stressing about going out in it. Forget about taking a walk - no way will he even consider leaving the comfort of his pillow.

I never add any acid ingredient until the beans are soft.

Oh my goodness. Stay warm and dry everyone!

I LOVE reading all your snow stories! Please keep them coming. Where I am, about 25 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., we've had about 1 inch and that includes the 3/4" we got on October 29! I don't necessarily want Snowmageddon again, but I work at a school and am so hungry for a snow day, I can taste it!

I am originally from New England and occasionally miss it here in CA. We are having unseasonably warm weather in the 60's and 70's right now. We are eating lunch out on the deck in short sleeves. Wish we would get some rain. We really need it.

Stay warm and safe all you in snow land.
Clare