Month: December 2014

Pasta bake with spinach & sweet potato (and 3.5 lbs of cheese).  It’s for my work’s holiday pot luck tomorrow, so I baked it in the slow cooker’s crock for ease of reheating.

My holiday beer — a Saison de Noel that I’ll call Candi Claus (for the Belgian candi sugar in the recipe) — was ready for transfer to the secondary fermenter today, so of course I had to have a taste. The strength is about where I wanted it (7.5%) though it may go up a little more. The flavor is already quite good, and should only improve from here. I am hoping for a quick secondary ferment, so I can bottle it in time to be ready for Christmas or at least New Years.

Waiting for the start of the Boston Pops Holiday Concert

Here’s a photo from 2010 to get (some of) you in the mood for ski season.

I started in on a new nutmeg for this evening’s eggnog.

Had it been a little warmer, the all-day flurries in Quincy would not even have been noticeable.  It was not warmer.

Also, historic Quincy city hall is re-encased in scaffolding and buttoned up to keep the workers out of the worst of the winter weather.

I think these are gonna be trouble. Coins for scale.

This is a winter moth female. This morning I squished her along with 15 of her sisters, all on the front of our garage.