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simmer…

16 Thursday Oct 2025

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I started soup on Tuesday afternoon and let it simmer for hours…

while that was happening, I also made a batch of mashed potatoes for the frozen dinners I was preparing from some of the leftovers…

we had these containers that were divided into three sections, so I decided to use them…

mashed potatoes went into each and then, turnip and peas and carrots into another spot… chicken, stuffing and cranberry sauce went into the final spot…

once more gravy was made, it was frozen and then fit in on top of the potatoes… all three meals have gone into the freezer for another day…

once we had soup for supper three containers were packaged up, two went into the fridge for the next few days and one went into the freezer…

nice to have a few meals ready for nights when I can’t think of what to have;-)…

gummy…

12 Monday Dec 2022

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felt a bit like I was getting a cold, so I dug in the freezer for some chicken and made chicken soup…

just the making of the soup is always relaxing… you can’t really do it quickly… slow and steady;-)…

I also decided on Mom’s dumplings to go with it… that reminded me of the time I took chicken soup with dumplings for my colleagues… a few hadn’t had dumplings, so I made very small ones which I thought would work well… NOT… they were gummy and yucky, sigh… clearly not the way to serve them… so funny, lol…

six o’clock came and I enjoyed a bowl filled with delicious broth, veggies and dumplings…

felt way better🤗…

and then there were a couple of meals ready in the fridge…

old-fashioned…

02 Wednesday Feb 2022

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made chicken soup the other day… cold outside and huge snowflakes were falling… seemed like just the thing to do…

although I could use the Instant Pot, I do it the old-fashioned way… I enjoy the aroma as it simmers away on the stove…

I like the time it takes to cool the chicken down and then separate the meat from the bones, adding in the barley, potatoes and other veggies and putting it back on to simmer…

once it was finished I packaged it up and with the last bit in the pot added dumplings for my supper…

good use of the day and delicious…

sleigh…

27 Monday Dec 2021

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my friend dropped a bag of coffee off a bit before Christmas…

it was for our weekly gathering…

today, we met by video call… so I did not make coffee…

my friends were in the sleigh and I was beside the tree… good thing they were in that sleigh because there was a lot of snow outside…

as always, we caught up on everyone’s life and had some fun remembering winter sports we had taken part in, lol…

the entire time I could smell the delicious chicken soup that was simmering on the stove…

friends;-)…

activities…

19 Thursday Mar 2020

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this morning’s activities included two particular items…

I started a pot of chicken soup as I now have a cold… the aroma permeated the house throughout the day and I was very eager to eat it for supper…

it was very tasty😋…

the other, and more exciting, thing that I did was pick up my Nikon and walk around the house taking pictures of flowers and greenery… can’t even remember when I last used it…

planning to practice with the camera over the next while and see if I can’t improve my photos…

although this one is basically the same as my last camera, I am not doing near as good a job of producing great pictures…

specialties…

15 Wednesday May 2019

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today we had chicken soup for lunch…

I made it last night and it took most of the evening… my chicken soup has potatoes, carrots, corn and peas… it also has barley in it… George loved barley in soup and so I always use it… I find that noodles can get mushy but the barley stands up to any reheating…

for supper I made a fried egg sandwich… one of my beloved’s specialties…

I imagined how it would taste, but it didn’t turn out quite as planned… was okay, lol…

nice memories…

burnt…

13 Tuesday Mar 2018

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tonight I finished the chicken soup that I started on Sunday evening…

I also made dumplings to go with it… such a simple thing… a bit of flour, baking powder, salt and milk makes the most delicious bite… my mom didn’t cook a whole lot, but her dumplings were the best… I enjoy using her recipe…

as the dumplings cooked I spent some time on the phone… the timer went off a few times as I was talking but I waited a bit…

not such a good plan… maybe the bottom was a little burnt… still very tasty;-)…

dizzy…

17 Sunday Sep 2017

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yesterday I did very little as I am dealing with a cold which has invaded my ear and made me rather dizzy…

the only thing I managed was to make some chicken soup…

didn’t even get out of my nightie… had some fun using the 10 second timer to take the picture on my iPhone, lol… thankfully no one came to the door…

had enough to fill 3 containers with plain soup and then made my mom’s dumpling recipe to go in the remainder of the soup…

one bowlful for my supper and a container which I had for lunch today…

my Friday night supper from SkipTheDishes worked for 3 meals… supper, part of my breakfast, and then lunch;-)…

really happy that I did that because the weekend has been very low key…

dumplings…

29 Tuesday Sep 2015

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made the chicken soup yesterday… been waiting all day for my supper because it was chicken soup with my mom’s dumplings… and they came out exceptionally well…

  
yum… I may have had two bowls full, lol… 

I am doing a good job of planning my meals the day ahead so I don’t have to make last minute decisions, which might not be the best food choices… because I was having the dumplings tonight I was careful not to eat any bread products today…

started the day with a lovely view out the front window…

  
the trees are changing colours and dropping leaves at a very rapid pace… 

it went below zero last night and a few plants in the front flower bed were hit, but it looks like the mandevilla and morning glory survived…

  
happy about that…