Snow days: FOOD

When I left work on Monday, I made sure I stopped at the grocery store to be sure we were stocked up on milk, just to be prepared for the oncoming blizzard. I also snagged a few ingredients to make chicken noodle soup. Yummy! Perfect comfort food on a snowy day! I'm staving that picture for my Picture of the Day for Tuesday, snow day #1.
For Christmas I got several of the more recent Iowa State Fair cookbooks. There was a granola bar recipe that looked really good. I had previously purchased the ingredients and Wednesday was the day to make them.
My four helpers.

Ephraim being careful with the pot on the stove.

Who's sneaking brown sugar?

They are delicious! I froze some for Seth to pack in his lunch box and we ate the rest!

One of the things on my "To Do for 2011" is make my own noodles. The ingredients are few and we had them all on hand. And so on Wednesday, our 2nd snow day in a row, we embarked on the noodle adventure.

The noodles are drying now. We haven't tried them yet but I'll let you know if this'll be a regular event at our house or not.