Keep your memories in your shoes

The weather's finally cold enough for me! Not really, but it's icy for a day or two, at least. I wouldn't be truly happy unless it iced and snowed so bad that I couldn't leave the house. Then again, if that happened I wouldn't be able to have company. I had a fire. Tooter's not in this picture, but she's taken to sitting on this ottoman in front of the fire. No doubt, the warmest place in the house.


And I made chicken and dumplings. I hammed it up for the camera, not realizing that I had taken my sweatshirt off. Trashy. This was Paula Deen's recipe. I'm messing with water and flour. This is the only recipe of hers that doesn't call for a stick of butter.

Laura helped me tear up the dumplings and put them in the soup. I think part of the fun of making food is eating half of it on the way.

I'm hoping that next time, she brings a new dumpling recipe for us to make. These weren't doughy enough. It was more like chicken soup with large noodles, aldente. The taste was good enough, but it wasn't the pleasing cold weather effect that I had aimed for. Couldn't have had better company, however. That's a million dollar smile, no?


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