Baking Challenge #1 - Update

 Here are Nevada's biscotti ...

 

 

Week 7 : Feb 12 to Feb 18

Feb 12 

Feb 13 

Feb 14 - bowling 

Feb 15 

Feb 16 

 

Week 6 : Feb 5 to Feb 11

Feb 5 - the snowman ... 

Feb 6 - in LA 

Feb 7 - in the TARDIS 

Feb 8 - without me :( 

 

 

 

Week 5 : Jan 29 to Feb 4

Jan 29 - self portrait 

 

Jan 31 - snow!!

 

 

Feb 1 - Snowman 

 

Feb 2 - #3 

 

Week 4 : Jan 22 to Jan 28 2026

Jan 22 - trying to be artsy :) 

 

Jan 25 - a light dusting 

Jan 26 - dancing? 

Jan 27 

Jan 28 - polished rocks 

 

New Restaurants #1 and #2

So I swapped out one of the items on my goal for 2026 for going to new restaurants.  Hoping this will be something that we do.

 

 #1 Millstone Pizza and Taphouse in Rock Hill

 

This was a pizza place that we went to after New Years.  It was okay. They are connected to a brewery which wasn't open when we went -- they didn't really have kid's foods.  Not a family sort of place but it was fine.  The pizza was good; the bread knots were good. No pictures.

 

#2 Seoul Food in Charlotte 

 

This was a good place to go with kids.  They had little animals the kids could ride on (for a fee); they had a playground in the back. I don't remember what I had to eat, but the beer was good.  Definitely would go back.  

 

 

Okay, I obviously need to work harder at doing this -- not just provide the name of the place.  I'll have to give more of a critique as the year goes on.  But anyway, we've gone to two new places which is a good thing.

 

 

 

Baking Challenge #1 - Biscotti

So for the baking challenge with Nevada, we're going to find different things to make.  She picked the first one (to be fair, she gave me a choice of a couple of things and I picked biscotti because I've made it before and had success).

 

Here's the link to the recipe that we used:

 Chocolate dipped almond biscotti 

 

Fortunately, I had all the ingredients on hand.

• Flour
• Eggs
• Almonds
• Semi-sweet chocolate
• baking powder
• cinammon
• salt
• butter
• oil 

 

 

I thought they turned out great.  I actually don't like the chocolate -- so I'd probably leave that off next time.   Just waiting to get pics of Nevada's ...

 

Week 3 : Jan 15 to Jan 21 2026

Jan 15 - snow in Cleveland 

 

Jan 17 - biscotti 

Jan 18 - shopping :) 

Jan 19 

 

Jan 20 - me being artsy

Jan 21 - a light in California 

 

 

Week 2 : Jan 8 to Jan 14 2026

Jan 10 - my great aunt's china 

Jan 11 - Jax 

Jan 13 - a great aunt, again 

Jan 14 - art from Africa 

 

Week 1 : Jan 1 to Jan 7 2026

 

 

Jan 1 - Jax and Grandpa 

 

 

Jan 2 

 

 

Jan 3 - pillow fort 

 

 

Jan 4 - another new restaurant - Seoul Food (in Charlotte) 

 

 

Jan 5 - Dave & Busters 

 

 

Jan 6 - SIL's birthday 

1,000 Miles

As I noted in my update, I walked over 1,000 fitbit miles.  Here's the recap from my phone.  It shows the steps (2,891,758) but not the miles :(.   

 

However, I was keeping track in an excel spreadsheet - my steps from the spreadsheet were a little less, only 2,890,934 -- 1,183.5 miles.

This year hasn't started out great, but I'll stick with it.