I'm a week behind but here is RH cooking bacon for our Valentine's Day breakfast.
He's wearing a special hat for the Daytona 500 race planned for later in the day.
James Mason is keeping him company in the kitchen.
He knows the kitchen is a good place to be.
BreeBree darts in and out of the room, skittish around kitchen noises, loud noises of any kind.
I mix up the buttermilk pancakes and cook the first one for our bird friends outside while RH fries an egg for himself and one for BB and JM.
Next come three pancakes for ourselves.
With lots of batter left to freeze for another Sunday.
RH gave me a large vase of purple tulip bulbs from Costco that have been beautiful growing this past week.
And I baked him cookies.
These might not be "pretty" cookies but they were a big hit at Christmas with all three of our sons and I had extra of the special ingredients--Andes Peppermint Crunch Pieces and Andes Creme de Menthe Baking Chips. I had to order them from Amazon as we couldn't find them in local stores and they come two to a pack. Those combined with chocolate chips make this a delicious cookie.
Here's a link to the recipe. I'm pretty sure another blogger recommended these but I can't remember who. My cookies are darker than shown in the link, maybe because I always use dark brown sugar. I also used grapeseed oil for the vegetable oil called for in the recipe.
Our snow is starting to melt here. It's been beautiful and I've enjoyed it so much, but I've watched the news from Texas and other parts of the country where the snow, ice, and freezing temperatures have brought heartache and so much trouble. I hope those affected by it get help promptly.
