02 March 2007
One nice thing about all this snow is that, even though it's been cloudy all day, everything is covered in white outside, so the light bounces all around and the world is bright and cheery. I love how full of light this house is! Through the looking glass:
I like the slow evolution of a home space. Looking back at pictures from even a month or two ago, I can see how I've settled into the rooms and got a better feel for their personalities. I actually undertook my first furniture rearrangement this afternoon. Well, that's what my kind does when they're stuck inside with nothing else to do -- they move furniture. I shuffled the living room around, and I'm going to see how I like it over the weekend. But back to my dresser:
I got a pair of these bookends the other day, for hardly any money at all. (Look at the larger image to see them in a bit more detail -- they're very pretty!) I also got that box of soap, mostly because the box is pretty, but also because it's the biggest bar of soap I've ever seen. I'll be lucky to find anywhere to set it down in the shower.
I made another loaf of no knead bread today. It's hard to imagine eating store-bought bread now! The recipe has been all over the place, but I keep using the one from the Star Tribune. I made my first loaf last week, and it was good enough that I enjoyed every slice, but it was too salty, didn't rise enough, and I had a heck of a time trying to get it off the towel. So this time, I used a little less salt, a little less water, added a leetle bit of sugar, and disregarded the call for a flour dusted towel and instead used plastic wrap. Much better!
Look at that! What a nice loaf of bread. I bake it in a 2.5qt Corningware casserole dish with a glass lid, so it comes out square.
I was leafing through the March issue of MS Living (so, February's issue, which I got at Half Price books on Wednesday -- and so paid only half the cover price -- excellent!), and in the Things You Should Be Doing Right About This Time of Year section, she advises planting your cold weather vegetables. Sitting at my kitchen table, I read that and then looked out the window at the multiple feet of snow covering my backyard. And then, oh, how I laughed. The only thing I'm growing right now are my mighty apple trees:
Grow, grooow! I'm expecting my first apple harvest any day now. Annnny day.
I love your sweet little orchard! The trees are just a few inches behind my citrus grove (I sprouted it from a cocktail!).
I have great aspirations to grow a pomegranate bush/tree from seed also.
posted by Rita at March 3, 2007 12:45 AM
no knead bread? sounds great! unfortunately i can't get through to the recipe :-( would you email it to me?
posted by Peitseoga at March 3, 2007 01:07 AM
Oh dear -- I'm not sure why that link doesn't work. If you just type in 'no knead bread' in their search, it'll return the recipe.
posted by Anna at March 3, 2007 01:33 AM
Of course light would bounce off all the snow, making for nice photos (smacking self on forehead). I'm just a bit embarassed that I didn't figure this out for myself, and spent all these years wondering how all the lovely blog peoples over there (waving arm aimlessly... north?) got such good photos in winter. Got it now!
posted by Leisl at March 6, 2007 08:35 AM
Love the color in your room. It's so pretty! And that bread looks amazing. It's so rustic - look like it would be perfect with some pasta or soup - yum. Your apple "orchard" is lovely by the way :o)
posted by Allie from Minneapolis at March 11, 2007 01:15 AM