Baking Adventures, first installment

Aaron and I are baking our way through the Kneadlessly Simple bread cookbook and Martha Stewart's Cookies cookbook this year.  Please marvel at our work, and we might even send you some!  We've only made quarter recipes of everything so far.  We have lots of variety that way.

Meringue Porcupines--lemon whipped cream and raspberry jam inside!

Fortune cookies.  Horoscopes from The Onion inside.

Anise Sugar Cookies.

Cherry Tuiles.

Crusty Seeded Pot-Boule, first version.

Crusty Seeded Pot Boule made again because of deliciousness!

Marsala Cookies with Honey, Chocolate, and Candied Orange Rind.

Cherry-Whiskey Biscotti.

Bonus picture: what you do with a wine rack in
rural Minnesota.

First Major Minnesota Hailstorm

This was August 15th!

Moving to Morris!

We've left France and arrived in Minnesota!  We'll probably backtrack with some other entries later, but this is mostly for family members who want to see our house.  More entries will probably be full of Aaron's baking.

Guest bedroom.  Most furniture and decor courtesy of Lisa's aunt
Susie.

Guest bedroom.

Master bedroom.  The pink furniture will be painted.

Master bedroom.  The bed, washstand, and dresser belonged
to Aaron's great-grandparents.

Master bedroom.  Pink will be painted.  The rocking chairs
were from Lisa's great-grandmother and from the ABC sale in
Chapel Hill.

Entryway.  There will be a mirror above there soon.

Bathroom.

Den.  We switch this coffee table (courtesy of
Lisa's parents) out with Susie's more formal
one that she gave Lisa.  The piano belonged to
Aaron's grandmother.

Den.  Most furniture and decor courtesy of Lisa's parents.

Den.  

Hallway into kitchen.

Kitchen.  Table from Aaron's mother, chairs from his grandmother.

Our loot from the local farmers' market.

Kitchen again.

Our office/dining room.

Office/dining room.

Stairway.

Farmers' market truck.

Park where the farmers' market is held.

They block off half the street for market parking.