A Good Day for Cookies

Actually, any day is a good day for cookies! I'm off work today so it seemed like a good idea to bake cookies for lunches and snacks. You can find the recipe I used here. The weather forecast is for freezing rain and snow mixed, perhaps turning to rain in the afternoon so this morning I'll bake cookies, catch up on housework, read articles for next weekend's class, and perhaps do a bit of knitting. This afternoon I'll need to run around and do errands, pay bills, and go grocery shopping.

Clearing Skies

The weather is clearing and we've had a beautiful blue-gray sky this afternoon. The prediction is for temperatures in the mid 20's tonight and perhaps some ice in the morning. It was a good day to make more soup. I made split pea soup from the Christmas ham:


Split Pea Soup
Soak 2 cups split peas. Drain them, reserving liquid and add enough water to make a total of 10 cups. Add peas and cook, covered for 3 hours with a meaty ham bone. Add 1 onion chopped fine, 2 stalks celery (including leaves) chopped, 1 clove minced garlic, and 1/2 cup chopped carrots. Cook for another 30 minutes. Remove bone and put soup through a sieve. Chill. Remove fat. Season to taste and serve with slices of homemade bread.