Birthday Boy

credits: CinnamonDesigns

Wow....Sammy is one years old...can you believe that!!? What a sweeteeeeeeee!!! He was so happy to have all those Balloons and he wanted us to sing "happy birthday" forever...Chinese Takeout and sweet cake...mmmmmmmmm

Cold and Snowing

Hello....we have not even seen Halloween yet...what is this...and it is covering all the beautiful maple trees...i don't remember ever getting snow (this much) so early....so i got the fireplace going and i cooked all day....made a Dill-Onion Bread and some apple crisp and then i did a oven roasted cauliflower,potato, fennel soup....oh,my...sooooooooo good!!

Roasted Cauliflower, Potato, Fennel Soup

I just took a head of cauliflower (separate the florets); "chunked" 1.5 medium onions; chunked about 5 medium peeled potatoes; cut up some fennel (save the fronds for topping the soup)...Tossed this all with some olive oil and sprinkled with kosher salt...place in oven at 350 degrees for about 1.5 hours (turn once and watch that it does not burn..i had a nice color on the all)...Place all of these goodies into soup pot and cover with chicken stock...simmer and than I blended until smooth (i use a submersible blender..makes life easy)...Enjoy!!<

This recipe came from my Kitchen Aide Mixer(page 67)...first time i used it for making and kneading bread....will do all my breads in it now..fab!

Apple Crisp is from Barefoot Contessa(click and it will take you to the recipe)....love her! This evening i will dig into this and add some vanila ice cream...Nice Day!! even if it snowed...

The Best

JoJo and Sam in the Pumpkins....aren't they just the best!!!???

Happy Birthday - Helen

one day late....sending you Birthday Hugs!!

Morning Activity

Just a few of the 70 pictures i took this morning...the guys are still out there as we speak....what a show....these men are so skilled... i just could not imagine how they were going to do this....bye bye willow...this is the fourth down with two more left since we moved in over 30 years ago...

Great Evening

Went out to dinner last night with DH and than to the Theatre...August Wilson's Fences...So Powerful!!!

A few Chefs

here is my Sarah with a chefs she has met while producing the "Platelist" series on Nightline abc news....top pictures is with Jacques Pepin-he is right up there with Julia Childs and the bottom two pictures are with a Chef at the Culinary School of America....boy, tough job but somebody has to do it....Chefs are my super stars...i am such a foodie!!I think she has met (and tasted their food) over 50 great chefs...I have some great pictures...need to do some digital layouts...on my "to do " list!