This is my first creationg using puff pastry. The topping was excellent, but I decided that in the future, I should heed the recipe's advice and bake this in individual sized bowls. The topping lost its effect (and the filling is basically chile, and thus runny) when it had to be cut up to serve. Still, it looks fabulous.

This is from the fantastic Cook 1.0 book by Heidi Swanson, the author of 101 Cookbooks, a favorite food weblog.

I hope I stocked up on enough bread and milk (I did), because we may be stuck inside for a while.

Laura and I tried to shovel the cars out. We lasted about 20 minutes, mostly because its 12 °F outside, with some serious gusting wind. We did get the subaru mostly shoveled out. But we still have a long way to go before we can actually get into the cars.

Being a blizzard, the wind sure does some neat things with the drifting snow though.

I made this soup last night. Laura was a bit skeptical at first, as she usually is when I try to combine some different flavors. Tonights soup was a basic potato-vegetable hearty winter soup with an entire tablespoon of cayenne pepper and approx 1/2 cup of extra crunchy peanut butter. I got this off of one of my favorite food blogs Too Many Chefs. Although I've lost the original URL of the recipe you can find it in the Kovacs Recipe Archive.

This is definitely a great winter soup: nice and thick, hearty and HOT! Next time I make it I think I'm going to cut the cayenne in half. If you're not used to (spicy) hot foods, you should consider cutting it even more.