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Recipe: chinese stir-fried flank steak

I don’t have a beef with winter. Nor do I have a beef with spring when it turns the trees in my front yard into this:

these are my kind of april showers

I got my turns in today. There were ten fresh inches of powder at the local hill. Spring has been good to me.

jeremy discusses which run to ski next

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Recipe: raspberry cream cheese cookies

Happiness is getting another day of skiing when you thought your season might be over. We hit the local hill this morning and played around working on form, balance, technique. Another gorgeous bluebird day!

tele gurl

jeremy working on form

practice practice

A couple of weeks ago I made a bunch of cookies to send to my MIL’s quilting groups to thank them for the awesome ice cream cone quilt they made for me. With memories of those incredible melt-in-your-mouth cookies that Anita had sent to me from Miette, I searched for a cream cheese cookie recipe in an attempt to reproduce that kind of joy. I found a recipe in one of my old cookie books that looked pretty similar.

cream together the butter and cream cheese

The book suggests using full-fat cream cheese to maximize the tenderness of the cookie. Because the dough needs to be refrigerated, this isn’t one of those recipes that lends itself to last-minute rush jobs. EDIT: Dough refrigeration is necessary, but not for as long as the original recipe suggests. I make edits in the recipe below.

i used a 2-inch biscuit cutter

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Recipe: roasted asparagus

I love waking up at first light and peeking from our master bedroom loft out at the mountains. I like seeing what the weather is doing or has done: snow, rain, clouds, sun, wind (this one not so much), frost. This morning was quite the treat because it snowed and was still snowing! I would have had my boots in hand, ready to head out the door for some skiing, but I had a lunch date in Boulder. I did manage to get a 1.5 hour workout instead, so I don’t feel too deprived :)

On the way down, I realized that my town was mantled in lovely white with diffuse sun gracing us. You never know if this is the last opportunity for many months or if we’ll get a repeat performance in a couple of days… Have camera, will shoot.

this sight makes my heart soar: it’s snow and it’s home

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