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I woke up this morning to a cold and quiet house. We're now officially into our first week of 2011 and the memories of the holidays are fading into the background. Everyone's getting on with the start of January and regular life -- as it should be.
One of the hardest things about this month for me are the long dark days -- less daylight. A very close second is the bone-chilling cold weather. Today the temperature read only -12.4 degrees Celcius, but if we include the windchill (which is a VERY IMPORTANT FACTOR IN MANITOBA!), the weather reached -20 degrees. It gets colder here, but once we're at -20 it's shades of ugh to me. Time to bundle up in the wool inside and out.
The other staple survival skill is to learn how to make a really good winter soup.
ESS and I celebrated January 2011 with a new split pea and ham soup recipe that 's pretty much the
best version of the soup I've ever tasted. Chunky, vegetabl-y, lots of ham and yellow split peas -- it does the trick and warms the bones :-)
One of the hardest things about this month for me are the long dark days -- less daylight. A very close second is the bone-chilling cold weather. Today the temperature read only -12.4 degrees Celcius, but if we include the windchill (which is a VERY IMPORTANT FACTOR IN MANITOBA!), the weather reached -20 degrees. It gets colder here, but once we're at -20 it's shades of ugh to me. Time to bundle up in the wool inside and out.
The other staple survival skill is to learn how to make a really good winter soup.
ESS and I celebrated January 2011 with a new split pea and ham soup recipe that 's pretty much the
best version of the soup I've ever tasted. Chunky, vegetabl-y, lots of ham and yellow split peas -- it does the trick and warms the bones :-)
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