first snow

Today we got our first snow of the year in the form of a slow and gentle winter mix. So far none of it is sticking to the ground (thankfully).

We are making homemade beef and barley and vegetable soup for dinner. I love barley soup, and this will go very well with the cold weather. It will hot and hearty. We will have a loaf of Italian bread to go with it.

I am actually starting to plan out Thanksgiving dinner to take advantage of sales on baking ingredients and the like at the grocery store. I have to figure out which recipes to make, take inventory of what we already have, and then next weekend I will the the store and buy the ingredients. I am thinking bread (we should already have all of those ingredients, other than honey - I used the last of the honey up a couple of weeks ago), fudges (Dan and I both have a different favorite recipe), a couple of pies, a couple of different kinds of cookies, and a cherry-marshmallow-cake that the kids love. We will not pick up the turkey breast and main dinner stuff until closer to the holiday to save some room in the freezer.