A Good Day for Soup....
Today the snow came...and came...and came. I have been trying to get together with my daughter-in-law since before Christmas so I could give her all the Christmas gifts I have for her and the kids...and yes, even my oldest son who won't talk to me. It's been one thing or another. So today I was going to drive over while my son was in class at the ITT school he is attending..(being paid for by the army, or better known as WE THE TAXPAYERS). They have been back to Michigan since March and I haven't been to their house once yet, so I thought that while he was in class I would drive over, see the house and drop off all the gifts. I really wanted the kids to have their presents under the tree by Christmas morning, but since that didn't happen, then two weeks after Christmas will just have to do....although not quite the same as opening up presents under the magic of a Christmas tree. But I had no control over that.
But today it decided to snow....and I had a limited time limit as to when I needed to be there and be gone before idiot son got home from class...which was shortly after noon. So I get on the road around 10:00 and try and see if I can drive....but they live along ways away and I would have to get on the Expressway to get there. Driving was so-so until I hit North of Eight Mile...I don't think Southfield believes in salting their roads apparently. The roads were worse, slippery and traffic was going at 25 mph....and I hadn't even gotten on the Expressway yet....I had a minimum of a 35 minute drive and that's in good weather. I couldn't risk another accident and another claim to my insurance company, so I decided to turn around and go home. I'll try again next week. Damn, if I wait much longer, I may as well give them their Christmas gifts for NEXT Christmas!
So I came home and decided it was a good day to make a big pot of soup. Besides the ham bone I just put in the freezer from Christmas, I still had another ham bone from a ham I made last Easter....so I decided to use that one. I always keep a lot of extra meat on the bone before I freeze it, so lots for soup later. I got it simmering in my big cast iron dutch oven soup pot with an onion tossed in for awhile...and then threw in some potatoes, carrots, more onion, celery and a small jar of Northern beans, and I also put in a can of cream of Broccoli soup. Later I made a milk-base rue and thickened it somewhat with that. It was so GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!! We had it for dinner with chunks of sliced bread and cheese. It's suppose to snow all weekend so homemade hot steamy soup will be good to eat.
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I'm going to go watch an episode of "Lost". I got Season One and Season 3 for Chrismas. So I'm going to rewatch the series from beginning to end...I just need to buy the other seasons. With DVD's there's NO COMMERICALS!...so it's easy to watch 3 or 4 episodes at once. I'm on episode 9. That is the greatest series on TV EVER! It should have been a movie. I am really enjoying watching it again. A lot of those early seasons I forgot and now that I know how the last season ends, alot of what you see in the first season makes more sense.
But today it decided to snow....and I had a limited time limit as to when I needed to be there and be gone before idiot son got home from class...which was shortly after noon. So I get on the road around 10:00 and try and see if I can drive....but they live along ways away and I would have to get on the Expressway to get there. Driving was so-so until I hit North of Eight Mile...I don't think Southfield believes in salting their roads apparently. The roads were worse, slippery and traffic was going at 25 mph....and I hadn't even gotten on the Expressway yet....I had a minimum of a 35 minute drive and that's in good weather. I couldn't risk another accident and another claim to my insurance company, so I decided to turn around and go home. I'll try again next week. Damn, if I wait much longer, I may as well give them their Christmas gifts for NEXT Christmas!
So I came home and decided it was a good day to make a big pot of soup. Besides the ham bone I just put in the freezer from Christmas, I still had another ham bone from a ham I made last Easter....so I decided to use that one. I always keep a lot of extra meat on the bone before I freeze it, so lots for soup later. I got it simmering in my big cast iron dutch oven soup pot with an onion tossed in for awhile...and then threw in some potatoes, carrots, more onion, celery and a small jar of Northern beans, and I also put in a can of cream of Broccoli soup. Later I made a milk-base rue and thickened it somewhat with that. It was so GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!! We had it for dinner with chunks of sliced bread and cheese. It's suppose to snow all weekend so homemade hot steamy soup will be good to eat.
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I'm going to go watch an episode of "Lost". I got Season One and Season 3 for Chrismas. So I'm going to rewatch the series from beginning to end...I just need to buy the other seasons. With DVD's there's NO COMMERICALS!...so it's easy to watch 3 or 4 episodes at once. I'm on episode 9. That is the greatest series on TV EVER! It should have been a movie. I am really enjoying watching it again. A lot of those early seasons I forgot and now that I know how the last season ends, alot of what you see in the first season makes more sense.
posted by Diane @ 5:50 PM
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