Snow Day!

For a native Floridian, snow is way cool. Twenty-plus INCHES of snow? Unfathomable.

But yet today we have indeed fathomed such a feat of nature – the DC area’s largest snowstorm in years, and one of the top ten storms to ever hit here! “Snowstorm” and “blizzard” have always sounded scary to me, but this was nothing but fun.

It helps that we had no place we had to be today. And that we had a fridge full of food. And a working furnace (unlike some of my friends at present – why does the furnace always go out during the coldest time of the year?).

And so, today, we’ve spent much of our time eagerly watching the snow fall outside, and occasionally dressing up like big ol’ marshmallows to go out and play in it. Snow is a novelty to LeeLee and me, even after several years in the Mid-Atlantic region, and we’re thrilled with this turn of events.

We were even MORE thrilled when our next-door neighbor dropped by with a bottle of French wine – a thank-you gift for when we kept an eye on his house while he was away on vacation awhile back. I knew it would go beautifully with tonight’s dinner – tomato quiche with salad!

There’s nothing like a quiche on a cold, chilly night. And tonight’s turned out very well, if I do say so myself – MUCH better than last time, when it was too watery and not very cohesive, even when cooked all the way through. So we enjoyed a glass of wine with our quiche and our salad, and will soon be hunkering down for a night of board games and Netflix DVDs. What could be better?

Happy snow day, all!

The stats:

Eggs: $3.49 ($0.87/person)
Soy creamer: $1.50 ($0.75/person)
Pie crusts: $2.89/two ($1.45/person)
Diced tomatoes: $1.00 ($0.50/person)
Salad: $3.99 ($2.00/person)

GRAND TOTAL: $12.87 … or $5.57 per person.
BUT WAIT! This recipe actually makes TWO quiches, one of which I put in the freezer right after baking. AND the first quiche left us with leftovers. So the per-person price goes down even more!

:)