Working On Those “Iffy” Relationships

At some point or another we all seem to have a relationship that makes us ask the question, “Why do I bother?”. You wonder why you keep investing time and energy to try to make it work when it would be so much simpler to just let it go. You could save yourself [...]

My Soup Bowl Runs Over

I’m not including these in my LOT#3 entry, but it’s more of the same . . . using up that rice last week. I was the main dish provider for small group so I made two different soups.
One was a chicken and rice soup — pretty straight forward. I made my own broth [...]

Canned Cassoulet

Today we’re having ‘blizzard conditions’. These are the views from the upstairs window and the front door. I hate snow. So, it seems like a perfect time to stay inside and make a little soup. I call a soup a ‘canned soup’ when I open cans to make it — [...]

Not the Recipe of the Day

This story is for all those who are convinced that I am a ‘perfect’ cook who never has any failures. So today I was being ‘all put together’ and this morning I put dinner in the crockpot and made lunch on the stove (veggie ABC soup) while Thing 1 was doing her Language Arts [...]