food, crochet, merriment
A few days ago we woke up to some crazy rain. I mean, like torrents of rain. For 4 or 5 minutes it even turned to hail. I was amazed that it wasn’t even all that cold outside…just wet. We found this odd pile of hail in one spot on the lawn that must have slid off the roof or something.
ANYway, the best part of all this moisture is…
what it does to our mountains.
Oooooh.
Not bad for nearly June–right?
Chili is getting antsy. She reallllly wants to go outside but the weather won’t cooperate. We even put up pastel Easter lights–you know, to give Spring a nudge.
My Texas boy already has his garden in. No such luck here, though.
The sun comes out for about 10 minutes and then…
it starts to snow again.
Back and forth. Back and forth. Poor Chili.
It’s like having Mother Nature stomp into the room every ten minutes shouting, “AND ANOTHER THING…”
Hang in there Chili girl. The sun is coming back. I promise.
Even if it’s only for 10 minutes.
Some nights, when it’s reeeeeally chilly outside, when it’s rainy or snowy or windy or all three–nothing tastes better than a steaming hot bowl of creamy, thick, cheesy chowder. Yummmmmm. This lovely little dish will warm you right down to your toes–100% guaranteed or your money back.
Heh, heh.
Ingredients:
1 medium onion diced
1 cup sliced carrots
1 Tbsp butter
3 Tbsp flour
3 cups whole milk
1-1/2 cups water
2-1/2 cups cubed or canned potatoes (drained)
1 can whole corn, drained
1 T chicken bouillon granules
3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
1-2 cups diced ham
pepper to taste
Directions:
In a Dutch oven saute the onion and carrots until tender.
Stir in flour till blended.
Slowly add milk and water. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2-3 minutes or until thickened.
Add potatoes, bouillon and pepper.
Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered for 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
Add cheese and ham and heat till cheese is melted.
With all the crazy polar freezing and arctic blasts that are going on across the country this week–it seems odd that I would be rejoicing in the small but lovely smattering of snow that we got here in our neck of the woods.
I seriously can’t help myself.
We are a four season kinda place and we’re very proud of our snow…
if we can get it to fall, that is.
I check the weather every night before bedtime and then again in the morning–you know–in case something has changed while I wasn’t looking, all in the hopes that there will be just a single snowflake on the radar.
Yeah, it’s that big of a deal to me.
This year, even after praying our guts out–
we still had no snow for Christmas.
It was criminal weather behavior and someone should go to jail.
Somehow, we survived that trial and finally–at long last, we had a full day and night of snow. Enough to actually stick this time.
If this keeps up, I might be persuaded to drop the charges against the weather man.
But we’ll see.
We’ve been getting a LOT of this rainy stuff lately. I don’t mind, really, because I’ve always loved rain…even more than sunny days.
Then it started to hail…really hard. Luckily, they were only the size of corn kernels and didn’t dent up my car.
It did, however, soak the birdies food and scare them half to death. They hid under the pine tree till it let up.
Pretty sure all my Chicken Littles thought the sky was falling. Ha ha.
