Is it still Winter, Mummy?

But unfortunately, this snow was not of the sticky kind. The Inuit have hundreds of different names for snow depending on it's properties, so I'm sure they would know how to describe it, but I have to resort to saying it wasn't sticky, and therefore our snowman looked a little... physically challenged.


No matter, you still got to stick some veg into a heap of snow, so you were happy!
After the morning's exertions we enjoyed a couple more cinnamon rolls.

These were so, so heavenly good, they made all the other cinnamon rolls I've ever made seem like fakes. Soft to the tooth, with that fragrant crunch of cinnamon sugar, my cinnamon roll success seems to be down to finally getting a feel for kneading and using an awesome dough recipe. As I make all my family's bread from scratch whenever possible, the time-consuming aspect of kneading and proving for a mere two loaves of bread every other day has always been a hassle, and sometimes resulted in 'no bread, oops!' situations arising.
But I've been making potato refrigerator dough as per Katie's reccomendation, and - bar the fact that I get a fright every time I open the fridge door as I'm accosted by a Blob of newly-risen dough - it works out great. You can bake as much or as little as you like each time, and by varying your add-ins you can use the dough to make bread, rolls, pizza dough, foccacia, or cinnamon rolls... for someone who's pressed for time but wants to cook from scratch as much as possible, this recipe is a real lifesaver. The only changes I've made is to cut the sugar from 2/3 to 1/3 cup and to substitute 2 flax eggs for the eggs.
This afternoon, we planted some sweet basil and chive seeds in impromptu seed pots (SVD's empty egg cartons).

We used our homemade compost, so lets see how it does. I read somewhere that slugs hate herbs so I'm planning to surround the rear of our house with troughs of herbs. We have a little situation going on with the blighters getting into the kitchen after dark... so I will fight them with herbs. I hope it works out better than it sounds!