At 5:30 am it's -2' and the wind that howled most of the weekend has finally died down. We expected to go up to 0' today and flurries, accumulating up to 5 cm by tomorrow morning, but we'll see.
Friday was one crazy day. They were predicting a huge storm with all kinds of weather systems. They closed the schools at noon and sent the kids home in anticipation. By 1:30 nothing was happening. By 3:00 nothing was happening. Finally around 4:30 a very fine snow started falling. By this time the weather network had changed it's forecast to say only 1 cm of snow was expected (not 15 as previously predicted) but the radio was still telling us to expect 15. Who to believe? So needless to say the drive home was windy but not especially treacherous. Sometime during the evening it turned to ice pellets as I could hear them beating against the window then later on to freezing rain, then rain by morning. The roads out here were slippery in the morning but the highway was fine. So it turned out to be somewhat of a none event.
We had planned to get together at the VanGaals for supper on Friday night but we had postponed it early in the day in anticipation of the weather. It turned out to be a good call as Bernie was quite late getting back. We decided to aim for Saturday instead. So after work I went home and baked some little apple pies for our dessert and then headed over. We had a steak we wanted to cook but unfortunately moose meat doesn't come marked with what kind of cut it is. We figured it was a tougher cut of meat and we were right. So we grilled it in the ridged cast iron pan then put it in the oven for a few minutes. It was still chewy but we cut it against the grain in thin slices and we made a wine and juniper berry sauce to put over it. Brenda found a new recipe for potatoes that we also tried. It was a night of firsts! It turned out great. While a bit chewy, the meat wasn't so bad and the sauce was really tasty. The potatoes were also VERY good and I'll be making those again. We also had a salad of mixed greens and a vinaigrette made with a flavoured olive oil and a balsamic vinegar that Brenda had picked up downtown. It was excellent! SO all in all a great meal was enjoyed by all. Even the desert was good. I've been experimenting a bit with pastry recipes and this one was very tender. I haven't tried it yet with a regular pie (these ones were a little free form) so I don't know how well it will come out of a pie plate but we'll see. Click here for the recipe if you want to give it a whirl - Extremely tender pie pastry. The rest of the evening was spent listening to a weekly program on CBC radio and reading magazines. Sounds boring - it was nothing but enjoyable!
Sunday dawned a little quieter and after bringing in my wood supply for the week, Brenda called and we decided to go for a walk in the woods. We had thought it was going to be much colder and icy so had planned to go into town. But the sun came out and it was just too nice to stay indoors. So we headed over to Suffolk to check out the trails on the Winter River. Of course it was Coopers favourite part of the week. After our hike we came back and made Pad Thai and caught up on a couple of episodes of CSI..
Another great weekend!
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