For a while now, I've always wanted to bake homemade bread like what you find in European bakeries, as well as at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.  I came across a few that piqued my interest, but the one that I decided to go with is a recipe for European peasant bread that was posted on a website called, "Pete Bakes!"

The recipe was super easy to do.  I split the dough up into four balls, baked one of them and put the other three in the freezer; to be baked up on another day.  I think the only thing I'd do differently is to use a tad less salt, as the bread tends to have more of a salty flavor than I'd like.  But the reason for making this bread was to go with my homemade pea soup.

As the days grow colder for most of us, preparations must be made to bring all your favorite plants that have been thriving in containers on your deck, patio, or what-have-you.  The most important task that must be done is to re-pot those plants that have outgrown their little plastic/terracotta/ceramic britches and get them comfy cozy for their winter residence inside the home.

I have several plants that were desperately in need of re-potting; namely, my "infamous" $2 rosemary plant, which is doing tremendously well these days and has now been re-potted three times since I rescued it from the clearance table at Russell's.