Homemaking Mondays: Snacks and Snow

 

Hello! 
It's a cold winter's day and the temperature

is dropping. 

Strange...but I'm looking forward to it for one reason.

The sun should shine!  Oh I miss the sunshine at this 

time of year. 

I made some delicious hummus recently and I must 

say that it's delicious without tahini.  

For some reason I can't eat tahini anymore but this recipe 

doesn't include it and is wonderful! 

It's great to have this as a snack or a light meal with bread 

or tortilla chips.

Do you eat hummus?  What do you like to eat it with?

I learned that if you take the skins off the chickpeas

then it makes a much smoother hummus.  Yum! 

One can chickpeas

1 large garlic clove

1/4 cup olive oil

3 Tbs lemon juice

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp cumin

Then I added extra olive oil to the top

along with a sprinkle of cumin and dried parsley.

I use an immersion blender, but any blender will do.

With the cold and snow the birds haven't been 

going far from the feeders. 

They are so fun to watch as they eat and fly about. 

There is a record amount of snow thus far this year.

It seems that we've been shovelling snow almost every day. 

Sadly our greenhouse roof collapsed from the weight of the snow.

We had tried to clear some but it was just not possible to do.  

So...springtime will entail some reconstruction. 

The snow is so beautiful but there is just so much of it. 

If you go off into the bush it's almost to my waist. 

With the winter darkness I did do some shopping therapy. ha! 

A new store in town had some lovely 

craft papers and chipboard butterflies that 

were just too hard to pass up.  

I hope to make some lovely cards

with these papers soon.

Something to do as the temps drop to the -40C at night this week.

Thank you for dropping by! 

Praying you are enjoying your wintertime.

Love and Prayers,

Jennifer