Seasonal Sundays (Week 50) Mid December
Welcome to Seasonal Sundays ...
Perhaps it's a provide to journaling? Perhaps it's Advent? Perhaps it's the terminate of a soul-searching year? ♥ But is anyone else feeling particularly contemplative simply now?
December 2020, of course, is notably quieter than Decembers inwards the Before Times: none of the annual traditional, musical, social, professional, gotta-do-this, gotta-see-that, gotta-decorate-this, gotta-buy-more concern of busy-ness.
WHAT A GIFT. A joy, even.
The repose affords the direct a opportunity to intend (and re-think as well as yes, real perchance over-think) what ane mightiness do with Dec as well as inwards plough what to do with 2021.
It's non a bucket list. It's non a to-do listing with satisfying piddling banking company tally boxes alongside. It's definitely non soon-to-be-shelved resolutions.
It's to a greater extent than a contemplation of where to pass time, where to pour energy, where to attempt fulfillment, as well as all without the strictures of "how we've ever done it" or approximately imagined Pinterest perfection.
Is it possible that 2020's limitations truly tear downward onetime patterns as well as expectations inwards a good way?
About the Photo By Popular Request, a Little Insight into the Top Image (Albeit Not My Own Shot, I'll Be Damned If I Can Figure Out the Right Settings): What a high, ane solar daytime subsequently another! My sweetness married adult man arranged for colored twinkly lights on the XXXL spruce tree inwards front end of our house, a "beacon inwards the wilderness" he envisioned. It turns out, the tree is inwards the perfect spot. It's framed inwards both windows inwards the identify unit of measurement room as well as is fifty-fifty visible from our bed! It's an inordinate thrill but a thrill nonetheless ...
Speaking of joy, a thrill. THANK YOU for stopping inwards today ... as well as terminal calendar week as well as side past times side calendar week too. "I appreciate you." I attain ... as well as ever dearest hearing from many of you lot throughout the week. Don't live on a stranger!
PICK ONE
Pick One is for those of us overwhelmed past times life's unending choices. If that resonates, hence banking company tally out this ane recipe as well as hence telephone telephone it a day. It's ane that I intend could brand the most difference, the ane I promise volition move a regular inwards your kitchen, equally it is inwards mine.
- "We accept made your lefse for 2 years as well as it's fantastic. My whole identify unit of measurement is involved. Thank you lot hence much." Loren
- THE RECIPE & INSPIRING VIDEO How to Make Norwegian Lefse Step-by-step video past times lefse adept LeAnne Kruger. (She's my cousin! Her married adult man is a TV producer!)
- "... they were outstanding!" Cathy B
- THE RECIPE (Sloooow) Baked Potatoes (How Long to Bake a Baked Potato)
Good Eats December: Casual, Comforting, Healthy
- THE RECIPE Cast Iron Meatloaf My go-to recipe for meatloaf.
- ANOTHER TAKE
- THE RECIPE Detox Chopped Salad
- ANOTHER TAKE Big Cajun Chopped Salad
- THE RECIPE Christmas Cauliflower
- ANOTHER TAKE Christmas Tree Vegetable Platter
- THE RECIPE Simple Swiss Chard How to sauté chard inwards a skillet, simply iii ingredients.
- ANOTHER TAKE Swiss Chard Skillet Supper with Tomatoes, Corn, Fresh Dill & Feta A hearty, late-summer meal, all inwards ane skillet.
Let There Be Light, Finnish Style
During Dec as well as January, a candle sits on my desk spell I work, flickering inwards the repose of my keytaps.
It's an onetime habit, ane learned the yr I lived inwards Finland, where equally the wintertime solstice approaches, sunrise is at 9:30, sunset at 3:15 as well as the Sun hangs hence depression that fifty-fifty daylight is to a greater extent than a foggy shape than illumination.
The antidote? Candles everywhere, fifty-fifty on the desks of students studying subsequently schoolhouse as well as evenings.
With hence many of us working from abode as well as extra-aware of the shortening days, perhaps your desk, your day, could purpose a candle likewise ...
Word from Luka's Vet
Luka got his annual checkup as well as shots this week. All is good!
The vet did inquire me to banking company tally his domestic dog food, however, maxim that according to Washington University inwards St. Louis, grain-free domestic dog foods are causing pump issues inwards dogs.
Just passing the word! Ask your vet ...
Like the photo? Me too! Luka l-o-v-e-s his latest toy, a big reddish os – as well as carries it everywhere. The master photograph was fun straightaway out of the photographic idiot box camera but I'm loving the "Femme" filter on a new-to-me award-winning photograph app called Prisma. A trial is free, a one-year subscription is $10. I've long used a "watercolor" app called Waterlogue from Tinrocket but am switching to Prisma inwards January.
For the record: this is simply me, Alanna, sharing information most a production I dearest as well as intend you lot mightiness too. There's no paid sponsorship or anything similar that going on ...
Seasonal Showcase: Cranberries
- THE RECIPE Cranberry Applesauce Especially pretty inwards yogurt parfaits.
- ANOTHER TAKE
- THE RECIPE Homemade Whole Cranberry Sauce for the Slow Cooker Sweet olfactory holding of cranberries, fresh ginger as well as orangish zest!
- ANOTHER TAKE Cranberry Orange Relish with Fresh Ginger That old-time recipe with an whole orange, peel as well as all.
- THE RECIPE Fresh Cranberry Cake Best made a solar daytime ahead.
- ANOTHER TAKE Fresh Cranberry Bars A chewy almost-blondie molasses as well as spice bar with bursts of juicy cranberry, topped with a scattering of saccharide "snow".
- THE RECIPE Family Shortbread All the identify unit of measurement tips as well as tricks to brand simple, ethereal English linguistic communication shortbread.
- ANOTHER TAKE Chocolate Shortbread Cookies A uncomplicated chocolate cookie, tender as well as crisp, barely sweet.
- THE RECIPE No-Chill Cutout Sugar Cookies Just mix as well as roll, no postulate to wait.
- ANOTHER TAKE
- THE RECIPE Fresh Cranberry Bars A chewy almost-blondie molasses as well as spice bar with bursts of juicy cranberry, topped with a scattering of saccharide "snow".
- ANOTHER TAKE Snickerdoodle Bars Snickerdoodle flavors with the firm, chewy texture of blondies.
Food Gifts
- THE RECIPE Cranberry Walnut Bread Special for the holidays, a barely sweetness yeast breadstuff studded with dried cranberries as well as toasted walnuts.
- ANOTHER TAKE
- THE RECIPE Maple-Glazed Pecans Crisp as well as barely sweet. Pecan Pizzazz!
- ANOTHER TAKE Sweet Pumpkin Seed Crumbles
Trending
My Top 10 Recipes are predictable, hi How To Keep Green Onions Fresh for Weeks as well as What Are Bitter Greens?. But every week, seasonal recipes grab the internet's attending as well as kickoff to trend.
- THE TIP How to Freeze Stock inwards Canning Jars Thrifty exercise for dark-green kitchens.
- THE STOCK No-Big-Deal Homemade Chicken Stock How to plough making chicken stock from a production into No-Big-Deal.
- THE RECIPE Homemade Swedish Potato Sausage A motion-picture exhibit essay of a grandmother passing along a identify unit of measurement recipe.
- ANOTHER TAKE Potato Blintzes An onetime identify unit of measurement recipe.
What's New?!
- THE RECIPE Swedish Red Cabbage & Apples Savory non sweet.
- ANOTHER TAKE Sweet 'n' Sour Cabbage Classic skillet dish.
Just Updated!
Don't Be a Stranger!
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is written past times second-generation nutrient columnist Alanna Kellogg as well as features fresh, seasonal dishes for every-day healthful eating as well as occasional indulgences.
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