Obligatory Blizzard Pictures
Weekend Weather Update (and recipe)
I haven't seen snow like this since we lived in Central Pennsylvania, where we experienced three of the snowiest winters on record. This is Connecticut! It's not supposed to snow like this!
This weekend, the snow started around 2pm on Saturday, and stopped after we got up Sunday morning. It was dry and powdery, which means it blew around a lot, so it was difficult to tell exactly how much we got. Here in the middle of the state, it was probably somewhere between 12 and 18 inches.
We battened down the hatches and stayed indoors. Except for fifteen minutes of excitement when Marty discovered one of our water pipes had frozen, it was uneventful. (And he successfully thawed the pipe without mishap, too.) We watched "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne of Avonlea," and I did some cross stitch and cooked hot dinners.
A few pictures:
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1. The parking lot on Sunday morning, from the front door. My car is second from the left.
2. Looking down on our front steps from the bedroom window. Those two bumps are the bushes on either side of our walkway. You can see how much it drifted by looking at the upper right hand corner, where you can see the sidewalk peeking out from under the snow.
3. Out the back door.
4. Another view in the back.
For dinner last night I made a pizza. Amanda asked me a long time ago for my pizza dough recipe (which I believe comes from The Joy of Cooking), so here it is:
Basic Pizza Dough
1 pkg (2 1/4 tsp) dry active yeast
1 1/3 cup warm water
3 1/2 - 3 3/4 C flour (I use 2 C white and the rest whole wheat)
2 Tbs olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 Tbs sugar
Combine yeast and water in large bowl and let stand for 5 minutes until yeast is dissolved.
Add other ingredients and mix.
Knead until dough is smooth and elastic -- 10 minutes by hand or 5 minutes with electric mixer using dough hook (I use a mixer).
Place in lightly oiled bowl, turn, and cover with platic wrap. Let rise in warm place until double, about 1 - 1.5 hours. (I leave it in the same bowl and spray both sides with olive oil, then cover and place in oven that has been warmed for 1 minute and turned off. But make sure you take it out of the oven before preheating for the pizza...)
Dust 2 baking sheets with cornmeal. Punch down dough, divide in half, and let it rest for 10 - 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 475 F degrees.
Flatten dough into 2 crusts, cover with favorite toppings, and bake 12 - 15 minutes.
Note: I usually make one pizza with this, and the crust is very thick.
I haven't seen snow like this since we lived in Central Pennsylvania, where we experienced three of the snowiest winters on record. This is Connecticut! It's not supposed to snow like this!
This weekend, the snow started around 2pm on Saturday, and stopped after we got up Sunday morning. It was dry and powdery, which means it blew around a lot, so it was difficult to tell exactly how much we got. Here in the middle of the state, it was probably somewhere between 12 and 18 inches.
We battened down the hatches and stayed indoors. Except for fifteen minutes of excitement when Marty discovered one of our water pipes had frozen, it was uneventful. (And he successfully thawed the pipe without mishap, too.) We watched "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne of Avonlea," and I did some cross stitch and cooked hot dinners.
A few pictures:
Click to enlarge.
1. The parking lot on Sunday morning, from the front door. My car is second from the left.
2. Looking down on our front steps from the bedroom window. Those two bumps are the bushes on either side of our walkway. You can see how much it drifted by looking at the upper right hand corner, where you can see the sidewalk peeking out from under the snow.
3. Out the back door.
4. Another view in the back.
For dinner last night I made a pizza. Amanda asked me a long time ago for my pizza dough recipe (which I believe comes from The Joy of Cooking), so here it is:
Basic Pizza Dough
1 pkg (2 1/4 tsp) dry active yeast
1 1/3 cup warm water
3 1/2 - 3 3/4 C flour (I use 2 C white and the rest whole wheat)
2 Tbs olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 Tbs sugar
Combine yeast and water in large bowl and let stand for 5 minutes until yeast is dissolved.
Add other ingredients and mix.
Knead until dough is smooth and elastic -- 10 minutes by hand or 5 minutes with electric mixer using dough hook (I use a mixer).
Place in lightly oiled bowl, turn, and cover with platic wrap. Let rise in warm place until double, about 1 - 1.5 hours. (I leave it in the same bowl and spray both sides with olive oil, then cover and place in oven that has been warmed for 1 minute and turned off. But make sure you take it out of the oven before preheating for the pizza...)
Dust 2 baking sheets with cornmeal. Punch down dough, divide in half, and let it rest for 10 - 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 475 F degrees.
Flatten dough into 2 crusts, cover with favorite toppings, and bake 12 - 15 minutes.
Note: I usually make one pizza with this, and the crust is very thick.
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