Over the past 24 hours we have had thundersnow, sleet, and freezing rain. We ended up with around 7 inches of snow here at my house. It was SOOO pretty! However, my driveway and yard is now an ice skating rink and the trees are full of ice!
7 in! and that was before we had a down pour of half dollar size flakes!
Half way up my calf!
My husband loves studying meteorology and I’m not quite sure why he didn’t decide to do that for a living. Anyway, he has always talked about thundersnow before but we never ever thought we’d see it in the south… EVER!
However, at around 5 am we woke up to see if work had been canceled and sure enough it had. I laid back down and he followed shortly after. He laid down and said “We may have some thundersnow. I would love to see it.”
As soon as he got it out of his mouth we heard a “BOOM”. We both jumped out of the bed and ran to the window. It was the craziest thing I have ever seen! Snow was pouring down, the wind was really up, the sky was lit up with lightening… it looked like a snow thunderstorm. You can go here to read about thundersnow.
The light reflecting on the snow is so pretty! The layer of ice on top makes it look like glass!
We were pretty excited about getting to spend the day together watching movies and eating yummy food. We decided to make french toast for breakfast. I had never made it before… (Yea, I was thinking the same thing as you…please God don’t let me start a fire because it would take the fire department quite a while to get here!)
So, I had to figure out a recipe. I searched online and looked at many different ones before I decided to just make up my own! It turned out really delicious! Here’s the ingredients:
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup of milk
- 1 tsp of cinnamon or more if you like
- 2 squirts of honey in the batter (I love honey!)
- 6 slices of bread
- powdered sugar (However much you like!)
- butter or Pam for coating the pan
- salt to taste (I just used a pinch)
- 1 banana (or whatever kind of fruit you like)
I mixed together the eggs, milk, honey, a pinch of salt, and cinnamon. (Nutmeg would have been great with this, but I didn’t have any on hand… and I couldn’t get out of the driveway )
I then poured it into a deep styrofoam plate for dipping. (I’m sorry… I know it’s not green, but.. I promise I normally always use my “real” dishes rather than the styrofoam plates.)
I dipped both sides of the bread in the mixture. You really want to use texas toast bread, but all I had was whatever was in the pantry and it ended up working great! (Note: Just don’t let it soak too long… I learned the hard way… It will fall to pieces!)
I used my electric skillet to cook them. I turned it on 350-375 degrees. I put butter in the skillet then threw a couple pieces into the skillet at a time. I let them cook for about 3 min on each side or until golden brown. (I like cinnamon, so I added a little bit extra to the toast when I stuck it in the skillet. )
By the way... this is a great use for all those end pieces!
After they had cooked to a golden brown on each side I transferred them onto a plate. I then cut up some bananas, added powdered sugar, honey, and maple syrup. (I’m not a big pancake syrup person but I LOVE maple syrup!)
We cooked some eggs with Mexican cheese for the side. Did you know that they make cheese with the taco seasoning actually IN the cheese? This is new to me and I love it! I normally add a dash of milk to my eggs to make them fluffy. I saw it on some cooking show one day… It seems to work!
Gilly sat on a bar stool and supervised.
It was delicious! (and I didn’t burn anything!! wohooo!) We decided this is our new snow day tradition! Do you have any snow day traditions at your house?
We used the leftover BBQ pork chops my dad cooked last night to make quesadillas for dinner! They were yummy! But, that’s a recipe for a different day.
The rest of the day was full of me and Gilly napping on the couch. Denver worked on a new Flossy blog design and layout! It will be coming soon! Hopefully it will make will make the blog easier to read and post comments! I’m so excited!
Besides working on the blog, my animal loving hubby was worried about the birds. So, he decided to put together our bird feeder for the birds! So sweet!
All in all… It has been a great snow day! Let’s just hope and pray the power doesn’t go out and everyone travels safely tomorrow!
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