Making the Best of Gray April Days

The weather has been a bit gray and dreary, but we are enjoying the freedom to run around outside now that the snow is gone and the mud has tamed itself down.

Wayne has been baking up a storm. He's not interested in making your basic cookies, or brownies, or cake. No. He's interested in making more unusual desserts that call for white wine and ricotta cheese. Such as cannoli. 

rolling and cutting the dough for cannoli

cannoli are not healthy

frying in shortening

We do not have cannoli forms, so Wayne improvised by making some from tin foil.

Wayne says that when he's an adult, he's going to be a professional baseball player, a special effects movie engineer, and a baker with his own bakery.  He says that because he will be so busy with all of his careers, he is going to hire me to manage his bakery. However, when I took over frying so that he could go help Wes boil sap, he didn't look so confident in my abilities. The cannolis that I fried came apart and opened up. I like to call the "taco cannoli."

Disclaimer: the wine is in the shell so alcohol evaporated in the cooking process. Cannoli are safe for children to eat.

Finished product. The filling is made with rocotta cheese, confectioners sugar, and whipped cream.

Meanwhile, outside as I  mentioned was gray, but warm. Heather has been craving a bike ride. My bike had a flat tire and I couldn't figure out how to use Wes's new air compressor, so I walked along behind her.

We stopped and said a quick hello at Joanie's house. 

Then on to the barn.

We headed back home when the sprinkles began.

The spinkles stayed sprinkles and when we got home, we found Wayne and Cole flying kites that they had gotten for Easter.

This is Cole's alien kite before it got away from him in a strong wind and flew off free into the world somewhere.