Firstly, snow! And lots of it!
Over the past 2 or 3 weeks, there have been a handful of days in which it snowed. The first big snow we got was a couple inches and actually messed up the bus and train schedules (the bus schedules royally, and the trains only a smidge). Earlier this week we just got a dusting, though definitely enough to close schools in Chattanooga. Last night it snowed a lot more, though, so we're back up to a few inches, with temperatures well-below freezing to keep it around a bit.
Secondly, cooking! Super-sweet stuff from scratch!
I wanted to expose the European heathens to a traditional batch of homemade Christmas candy, including peanut butter fudge, chocolate-dipped pretzels, and divinity. However, if you know anything about candy making, you'll realize this list holds a serious problem for me: about half of the ingredients for these candies simply don't exist in Europe.
So in addition to the final products, which remain to be seen, I've already gone about making some of the basic ingredients, namely, peanut butter, "corn syrup" (or super-saturated sugar syrup), and marshmallow creme. It sounds like a lot of work, but really I'm the winner in this situation, because the marshmallow creme is fantastic.
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