What are your favorite winter fun activities?

Here’s another one. For really awful days nothing beats staying in and making gingerbread cookies! My favorite part is decorating them. I’ve purchased a set of edible food dye gels from Wilton Cakes, just the primary colors and brown, and I use them everywhere. You can easily make colored icings with them. I like them more than the liquid colors because the gel lets me mix precise shades of colors with ease. This task really makes a bad day go by fast, since you need to let the gingerbread cookies dry after baking for ideal rigidity, and who can’t get caught up decorating cookies if you have all sorts of sprinkles and candies!

Staying inside with someone snuggly.

And then doing something to raise the temperature.

Winter has hit here too. I like to bake or play games with my kids. If it’s really cold the hubby will light a fire in the fireplace. Ice skating and sledding are big in our region.

Sledding and ice hockey are very common here too. Many community centers make up outdoor rinks for the kids to play on, and of course there’s the Rideau Canal with all its tasty food stands, nothing more fun than skating with friends while eating a deliciously sweet beaver tail! We have some wicked huge hills around here. Maybe I’ll get a super long magic carpet and head out this year!

If we are very very lucky, we will have a cold snap and get to light our fireplaces. We feel veer fortunate when we have cold weather here. It is a treat for us. Gumbo and fireplace weather…. I can’t wait!!

Hey dynamicduo…what’s in the beaver tail? It looks much like what we call fleishkeukle. You have to be German.

Make chili! Mmmm, nothing better on a winter day. Ohhh, with cornbread!

The beaver tail is a piece of pastry dough deep fried, then drenched immediately in sugar and brown cinnamon for the traditional version. Crispy parts and slightly doughy parts, all sugary…. mmmmmm. There’s nothing inside of the traditional one. Although I do think the company offers many flavors, some with toppings. I can’t get enough of the classic original! It’s a true Canadian treat, the booths have always been here for as long as we can remember.

Well from the picture it looks like something we have called fleishkeukle. It’s deep fried dough but has seasoned ground beef inside. Where I live now they don’t even know what I’m talking about so when I go home I have to make sure to go out for lunch or supper and have one. Yours sounds very yummy too.

Ooh that sounds interesting! I want to try one of them :)

Yes, there are a lot of german families in Canada. My father’s side is German ancestry and so is my partner’s father.

ice climbing.

If you have anyone to do it with, building at least one snowman and taking pictures is a must. All of the other outdoor activities like skating, sledding, tubing, etc. are a must, too. Staying indoors with your significant other and talking in front of a blazing fire is always nice, with the windows open so you can see how beautiful it is outside.

By the way, we have those treats where I am, too. We call them elephant ears, though. :) It’s been a long time since I’ve had one and now I kind of want one.

snowboarding

I jumped on my neighbors llama when it snowed and I was out of school as a kid. I rode that llama at least 8 seconds im sure before I got tossed into a pile of very yellow snow.
Since then I have been a fan of wintertime llama rodeos.

Ice skating at least once. For the rest of the winter, I’d stay inside everyday if I could!

We call them elephant ears, too, and I REALLY want one now!