Wintertime Funtime

Stephanie the Body Zanati journeyed through a crazy blizzard to visit us last weekend! She came bearing gifts! You guessed it: a delicious cheese ball from Current Cuisine in Yellow Springs! Not jealous yet? Just wait, you will be. That's right, she also made your favorite and mine, matzo ball soup!!!! One of my absolute top 2 in soups (and that should mean a lot if you know how much I love soup)!! Here she is, matzo ballin' it up!



Mmmmmmmm, matzo balls...

If you're not salivating now, you're just crazy and we should probably have a serious talk if our friendship is going to continue...

Don't forget, this entry is called Wintertime Funtime, and no wintertime funtime is complete without making gingerbreah houses from scratch! We went to the candy store and bought oodles of confections, then returned, baked up our gingerbread and created our, ahem, masterpieces... It was harder than we thought it would be, okay?! I couldn't get a roof to stand up so I made a gingerbread trailer. Stephanie decided to do away with the whole 3-D aspect altogether! Anyway, here's my trailer, complete with Necco roofing, taffy windows, cowtail pillars, an Andes mints yard, a chocolate marshmallow tree, and a Nerds-filled walkway.

Here are all three of our creations together. Stephanie's is in the middle and Amanda's little woodland cottage is on the right! I'd definitely be neighbors to these two ladies!

More funtime to come this week, as we are to be visited by two more holiday spirits... The ghost of Allie Manker tomorrow and the ghost of Jesse Varga on Friday! Then I head home for the holidays next week!