Dark Days challenge and how to spend your sleety morning inside with twins

Last night Jon and I were both exhausted. He ended up being gone an extra day because of a mechanical plane failure, and between night time wake ups from the boys and extra chores, I was beat. We still managed to eek out a Dark Days meal:




* Ribeye from Grandview Farms
* Red potatoes from Cox Farms
* Roasted green beans - organic direct from farmer but from Florida, just a little too far to be considered local.

The potatoes are Pioneer Woman's Crash Hot Potatoes. It is a vegan recipe and you've never tried this recipe, YOU MUST. The basic steps are to boil the potatoes, smash them, then brush them with olive oil and roast them to get a crunchy texture. Since finding this recipe, it is my all-time favorite way to prepare potatoes. I'd recommend using small red potatoes for this recipe.

(The wine was from Italy, but I made the trek to Total Wine to buy some North Carolina wines for Christmas. We have a winery 10 minutes from our house but we found the majority of their wines use grapes from California.)

As a bonus, I know a lot of people are spending time this morning inside with their kids because of the weather. We got nasty nasty sleet last night and we were afraid it would freeze over so we've been hanging inside. I've mentioned over and over how twins at age 3 are easier than any other age so far FOR US because they play together and entertain each other. I now have video evidence as they did this for 30 minutes this morning:

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Twins rule!