First snow for 2005/6 season

It's a little late in coming, but the first snow of the 2005/6 season in Edmonton finally dropped from the sky last night. It's slowly been getting colder and colder here but the sky has remained stubbornly bright and cheery until this week when you could tell that snow was just around the corner. Maybe the reason I started a baking extravaganza on the weekend was because I could sense it in my bones - I could be becoming attuned to the seasons here in a new and unorthodox manner. Steve starts baking - snow is just around the corner; Steve stops blogging, the snow has gotten so deep that there's no time for anything but snowboarding and skiing; Steve continues to stop blogging - summer has arrived and there's waterskiing to be done...this could be the start of a bad trend!



Last year snow came a lot earlier on the 9th of September

So my total cooking experience over the weekend was baguettes during the day on Saturday followed by an unbaked layered lasagna with prosciutto, ricotta and asiago cheese from my new favourite foodie blog Lex Culinaria for dinner that night.

I made the best chocolate cake in the world on Sunday night with traditional English custard to take over to David and Monica's place for dinner (more delicious salmon from the Queen Charlotte Islands trip in the summer). There's nothing quite like a great dinner with friends (Rod, Huey and Angela were all there as well) followed by rich, dense chocolate cake and custard to really make you appreciate how lucky you are. And then you walk outside and everything is layered in white fluffy snow.