Ice fishing huts, called “bob houses” on New Hampshire’s Gregg Lake. Someone told me they get their name from the way they bob up and down in the water if left out when the ice gives way.
This was the coldest field trip I have even participated in. The wind whipped across the lake and the temp. was in the single digits – not including the wind chill.
I have fallen in love with this “recipe” for easy Cookie Pie. My 12 year old loves it and I love to make it for him because it takes about 5 minutes to throw together – no baking, very little clean up. Kids could very easily make this by themselves.
I don’t eat it, but he and his friends gobble it down!
Dip each cookie in milk and make a layer of cookies in the crust.
Plop a layer of cool whip on top.
Repeat with a layer of cookies (dipped in milk) and more cool whip.
Make 3 layers and end with cool whip and crumble a cookie on top.
Put in the fridge – or eat right away.
Yuk… I mean … YUM!
If I were poetic I would add a great poem here, but I’m not, so I hope you enjoy the photo.
I don’t know what kind of tree this is, but it had little dangly things hanging all over (like that description?) and the snow on it’s branches was so awesome looking. This photo is one of my favorites from my walk.
Now the trees are bare after our rain and wind – (it’s dumb to rain in winter isn’t it?). I am looking forward to getting another snow storm.
My bread maker died a few weeks ago and I decided I would begin to make my own bread. I try not to eat too much bread and I mostly used the bread-maker for making pizza dough on Friday nights.
I looked online and found a recipe for homemade bread that was supposedly WONDERFUL… It had to be kneaded for 10 minutes! Are you kidding me? So I made it and got a good arm workout. The bread wouldn’t rise.
Most likely because it’s winter and my house is only around 65 degrees – no where near the 80 degrees suggested for rising.
Even when I heated the oven and stuck the dough in there, it still didn’t do much.
I got a few loaves – the small ones were edible but the large ones were doughy inside. I tried this recipe once more and still didn’t have much luck so I made Bread Pudding – which no one ate either! So I gave up on that recipe.
I now have a new bread maker (West Bend)…and it has 2 paddles in the bottom of the pan, which I had never heard of, but this machine didn’t come with a pizza dough recipe!! Oh no….BUT at Amazon.com (where I purchased it) a lady had left a message about this machine saying she always made pizza dough too and used the bagel recipe instead.
I used it Friday to make pizza dough (which was a combination of the bagel recipe and my old pizza dough recipe) and it was delicious…even better than my old dough would come out.
So below is the recipe for my bread maker pizza dough. In case you like to make your own. Add ingredients in this order and use the dough setting. Mine takes an hour and a half to complete.
I used this to make one large pizza with semi-thick crust. Add some spices such as onion and/or garlic powder and oregano to give the crust a nice flavor. I also bake the crust first @ 425 for about 10 minutes, then add sauce and toppings and bake @ 425 for about 15 minutes – or until it looks cooked.
New England's Narrow Road 