Day 27 - The day the sky came falling down

What a glum, dreary day.

Do you know when you go to the mountains - real mountains, like the Alps - and you drive way up to a mountain pass, and then you stay overnight in a little hotel that clings to the side of what you, as a flatlander, might just call a vertical cliff? And you wake up in the morning, and not only is there another mountain wall right smack in your face as you look out the window, but the clouds are all around you, as well? Drifting so low that you think you could touch them, weaving through the tops of the trees?  That's what it was like today, and we're not in the mountains.  Imagine how low the clouds must have hung for that.  It was like the sky was falling down in slow-motion.

So we spent the day inside, again. The rain - we call it, raining like yarn, because it's straight down, like, well, yarn.  We had a fabulous venison lunch at my Mom's, and tried a new apple cake she made - "Lecker, lecker, Hosenschmecker", is what Leah said. I agree.  It was very, very good.  We ate the first Christmas cookies.  Also yummy-delicious.  I finished a hat for Leah.  It's the kind of weather where you need more than one hat.  We practiced they're/their/there for Alan's English test on Tuesday.  I'm getting heartily tired of "Jingle Bells" which Alan is practicing for Christmas Eve. Every. single. day.

I had to throw the mug out.  After I scraped off the gunk, it turned out the mug had, indeed, cracked and was leaking.  Sigh.  It's just stuff.  But it was stuff with memories. 

Anyway.

Comments

[Doug M.]

That cake looks... different. I'm not sure about that.

I love that Alan is practicing, and I'm really looking forward to hearing him play.

Doug M.

[Greta]

The cake looks similar to my go-to dessert. Basically apples baked in a pancake batter. I'm not a baker and it's near impossible to screw up. Your mom's looks more golden and fabulous. I top mine with chocolate ganache especially to hide an uneven top!

Hope your weather clears!

[claudia]

It's actually a really complicated cake with apples pre-cooked and the filling a custard-y thing. It did taste very, very good. Your recipe sounds intriguing. Can you share? ;-)

[Christine]

The apple cake looks interesting. Do you have a recipe you can share?