Baking, hay and a snowman

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I didn’t get to spend as much time baking yesterday as I had intended. Instead, I took a trip to town with my mom in my dad’s old 4×4. Mom keeps it on the farm to get hay . . . and to get us around town when the snow is knee deep.

After getting hay, a few additional groceries for Christmas dinner and watching other people trying to figure out how to drive on compact snow and ice, we arrived home and spent the afternoon baking.

Well, after taking the hay down the hill to the barn.

On the sled.

The kids enjoyed that! I should have gotten some pictures but I was inside busy getting groceries sorted and put away. Then I set out the ingredients I needed for baking.

The ingredients for the buttery rolls went into the bread machine. I put it on the basic dough setting and just left alone there on the counter to do it’s thing.

And the tofu for the mock cream cheese went into the blender. I added a little rice milk to get a nice consistency and then dumped it into a bowl. After adding a bit of sugar and lemon juice, it really tasted quite like regular cream cheese. I made a pumpkin cheese cake with it for our Christmas dinner while the dough for the rolls was in the bread machine.

We tested the rolls last night and they were a hit. So today I’ll be making another batch for tomorrow’s dinner. I think since these are so easy to make, I’ll be making them on a regular basis.

The kids also drug papa outside to make a snowman. It turned out really cute. It’s wearing great-grandma’s crocheted fedora. He even has a carrot nose.

G-man says the snowman’s name is Brady.

There are more pictures on flickr of the most current snow.

Oh! I almost forgot one picture . . . this is a look down the hill we live on . . . I’m standing at the end of the driveway. The bottom of the hill is somewhere down there where it gets blurry.

In the arena,

Merry Christmas! And Happy New Year! I hope you enjoy the holidays and that you are blessed beyond measure.

Annie Anderson is a freelance copywriter and graphic designer specializing in the small business and real estate markets. Her tagline “Making your business, my business” means that she’ll take the utmost care when creating words and images for your business – just as if it were her own.