Cheese Bread and Bowling with Ice.....

 "Winter hung in there, like an invalid waiting to die.Day after grey day the ice stayed hard. The world remained unfriendly and cold."
                   -Neil Gaiman (1960-) (From "Odd and the Frost Giants")

 Well, if winter's going to hang in  there, better haul out the bread pans and make some  bread. But not just any bread. No-yeast. No fuss. No muss. A good bread substitute. Especially on these dark days of winter. Serve with homemade soup or chili. Yum.

 Gives you time to pour hot water over the birdbath....

 And  play Ice Bowling in the yard.  This year, the water buckets froze solid, making bowling balls of ice.  So  while the bread bakes, you can crash, rattle and roll with icy bowling balls.....start a whole new winter sport.

 CHEESE BREAD ( no yeast)  (yields 2 loaves)

 Mix: 6 cups flour, 8 tsp. baking powder, pinch salt,  3 cups grated cheese

 Wet ingredients:3 cups milk or water, 4 tbsp butter, melted.

 Line two loaf pans with foil and spray with veggie spray. This will ensure the bread does not stick to the pan. Otherwise you will get   a mess to clean up on the pans. Yuck.

Combine Wet with Dry ingredients.

 Plop into foil lined pans. I don't recommend sprinkling cheese on top of batter, because I've found that it tends to burn.Then you spend way too much time peeling off the burned bits and pretending that you did it on purpose.

 "Poets have been mysteriously silent about the subject of Cheese..." G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936_)

 Bake at 400 oven for about 40 minutes.

 Be sure to add time , if a sharp knife inserted in centre comes out doughy. Nothing yukkier than doughy bread. 

 Then you would WISH for burnt cheese on top to cover up the fact that the bread is not baked.  

 Let the bread cool somewhat.  If you can wait that long.

 Tear apart and serve with butter or more cheese or alone or with soup or anything else that is equally yummy...

 Meanwhile, head out in into the yard and throw around a few bowling balls of ice.  It's a new sport. Must be a Canadian thing. I hope it gets into the winter Olympics. Part curling. Part bowling.

 "Winter is the time for comfort,for good food and warmth,for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk around the fire. It is the time for home. " -Edith Stillwell (1887-1964)(British poet and critic)

 Photography: M . McConachie Woods 2017
Outdoor nature shots taken at Tyee Spit Estuary, Campbell River, B.C. Canada