New garden fence

Am I not the luckiest woman on the planet?! My wonderful husband and oldest son made a fence for the garden this weekend. I have more pics to upload later but wanted to post these for now. Next comes the painting of the shed... It's already been sanded, so I just need to make the time to paint it. My raspberry and blackberry plants will go in sometime soon as well. The big planting will be in mid- March.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, zucchini, herbs, peas...

What would you plant?

Fudgy Truffles

Many pounds of chocolate ago I came up with this too-soft fudge and turned them into heavenly truffles. I promised to share the recipe and somehow forgot to. Well, at long last, here it is! They are super simple to make and you can actually eat it as soft fudge if you do not want to take the time to make truffles... but I promise you, it is worth the effort!

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of chopped semi-sweet chocolate, in a pinch you can use chocolate chips, but they're better if you don't
• 1 square unsweetened chocolate, chopped
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla (Penzey's Vanilla is pretty awesome!)
• 1 can, sweetened condensed milk
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• 1/4 cup hazelnut spread (Nutella)
• 1-2 cups cocoa powder -or- Ghirardelli Sweet Ground Chocolate and Cocoa for coating truffles

Directions:

• Combine everything but the cocoa powder in the top of a double boiler. If you don't have one, a makeshift one is fine... just make sure the water is not touching the top pan.
• Over a low heat, melt ingredients to combine, whisking constantly.
• Pour melted chocolaty goodness into an 8 or 9 inch square baking pan lined with wax paper or foil (this will make for easy removal).
• Put in fridge uncovered.
• Here comes the hard part... chill for 2-3 hours. The fudge will easily remove from the pan in one big square.
• Cut into tiny pieces... about 3/4 inch squared or so. See photo. This one batch will make about 100-150 truffles.
• Put cocoa powder into a bowl.
• Roll each truffle into a ball and coat in the cocoa powder.
• Set on a cooling rack while you finish rolling and coating the rest of the truffles.
• Enjoy!