Picture Year in Review (2025) Part 6: Winter

 December, unfortunately, is going to get a post of its own, but I here is some photos from the rest of winter so far.  It is snowing like crazy today, but we haven't really had a lot of snow so far this year.  My husband managed to get a cool picture of the Northern lights one morning when he was heading out to work, though, so enjoy that!

A shot of our first real snowfall of the year.

I got a bunch of different baking projects done this winter, when I could squeeze in a moment or two and gave away some as gifts this holiday season.  Our neighbor across the road and we exchange gifts every year, pretty much, so I gave him a loaf of cheese bread this Christmas :).

Thanksgiving rolls turned out so pretty, I had to take a picture.

Rustic sourdough loaves that I used for French bread pizzas a few times.  They came out sort of flat, so it worked well for that.

Cheese bread.  I just took my normal bread recipe and when I was shaping the loaves for their second rise I incorporated a bunch of cheese into the dough.  Worked well.

Lastly is a little frugal thing I did.  I had bought some mandarin oranges that were on sale really cheap, figuring my daughter would eat them.  She did not, of course.  So, when the oranges started to look not great, I juiced them all, turned them into orange juice and used them in a few recipes.  I made orange chicken one night and then I used the rest to try Princess Diana's overnight oats recipe (I'll let you look that one up, if you feel the need).  The oats were good, I have to say.  I used dried cherries as I have a lot of them, and pecans in mine.  I also used my seven grain cereal mix instead of straight oatmeal.  It worked well and it made enough cereal to last most of the week.  I just heated the cereal up, added some greek yogurt to cool them off and added honey or maple syrup to sweeten and then added my garnishments.  Worked for me as I'm not a fan of the cold overnight oats.

And there you go folks.  Pictures of winter, 2025, sans December, which I'll get into in a later post as it is going to definitely bleed into this year.

Enjoy!