Dinner tonight - or last night.

Oh, I know.... it's April Fool's Day. I love it so....

We're well into April the 1st downunder, infact it is 2pm in the afternoon here. Just posted a query to the Hamsters about the Avatars and clicked just after posting same.

The first year I was on A2K---about a month after I joined---we were greeting with a dancing hamster where everybody's avatars used to be. I exited and re-entered A2K. I exited and reloaded AOL. I cleaned my internet cache. I ran a scan on my virus program. I rebooted the computer several times trying to get rid of those dang hamsters. Then somebody reminded me what day it was

Anyhow for dinner tonight it was a teriyaki stir fry of thinly sliced beef, sugar snaps and other assorted veggies over rice, and fresh cantaloupe that was excellent for this early in the season. Yum.

Well, I'll snap you some pea pods, neighbor.

Thanks. I do like sugar snaps and being raised southern, blackeyed peas are a great favorite at our house. Debating whether I'm up to handling a garden this year.

I tried to replicate the Mexican Pizza Taco bell serves. I did it with quite a success.

Tuna and mayo on la brea italian bread, toasted. Chocolate milk.

Last night I had two fried eggs, a baked sweet potato and baked beans. Strange combination, but the flavors seemed to work together.

just finished our early supper :
juicy ribeye steak , new red potatoes in the jacket , rice , asparagus , V 8
SHOULD TIDE ME OVER FOR AN HOUR OR SO ... ...
HBG

Last night we had our once-a-week house specialty of fried chicken--actually a few little chicken wing drummettes battered and fried--sooooo good--but balanced with hash browns, fresh fruit and fresh turnip greens.

Tonight I made broccoli & bacon soup. With equal amounts of broccoli & potato cooked in chicken stock. One of those smoothed-with-the-whizzer soups, with the crunchy fried bacon & onion stirred in at the last minute, along with a couple of tablespoons of chopped mint. Served with some buttered sourdough bread on the side. Not bad!

I went to The Noodle Bowl with Brendalee last night. We had a lonnnnng concert last night - Bach's St. Matthews Passion - started at 7:30 p.m., we got out of the church after 11 p.m. We needed to stoke our fires in advance. Instead of my usual soup, I ordered the Singapore Style Chicken Fried Rice. Delicious, but I couldn't finish my order. Brought about half of it home with me.

The slow cooker's working over some pork side ribs right now. Should be ready in about 8 hours.

msOlga - that sounds wonderful! I picked up some really nice-looking broccoli yesterday - your soup would be perfect for tomorrow - especially as it's supposed to snow - and soup is snow food

It was pretty good, ehBeth. Would you like the recipe? (Though it's pretty simple, really)

Yes, I imagine soup is just perfect for snowy weather!

Recipe? like an actual real recipe

I always thought you cooked like I do - a handful of this, 2 good-sized pieces of that, whatever is left of that, a double handful of this, as much as fit on the cutting board of that

I had a hard time adjusting to Set's requests for recipes for things - other than baked good/pastries (which are more science than art) - I hadn't used a 'real' recipe in ages before he arrived here.

hmmm, then again, Set will be on kitchen duty tomorrow afternoon - so ... yes, please I would LOVE the recipe!

Thank you, Dahling Witch.

Nah, trust me, I need recipes, ehBeth! My more spontaneous efforts tend to be .. er .. "interesting"! Something to do with being a late-learner in the arts of the kitchen, I think!

So here you go, an easy peasy recipe, especially for the Doggy Person!:

BROCCOLI & BACON SOUP:

* I onion, chopped
* 4 rashers bacon, rind removed, chopped
* 400g potatoes, peeled & diced
* 1 litre chicken stock
* 400g broccoli, chopped
* 2 tablespoons chopped mint
* Sea salt & cracked pepper

- Place onion & bacon in a large saucepan over medium-high heat.
- Cook for 5 minutes, or till well-browned.
- Remove onion & bacon from the saucepan & set aside.
- Put potatoes & stock into the same pan. Bring to the boil & add broccoli & cook till potaoes & broccoli are soft.
- place soup in a blender or use stick mixer to blend till smooth.
- Add onion & bacon, mint, salt & peeper & mix to combine.
- Serve!


How easy is that!

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That looks perfect for the Doggy Person. I suspect he know where all the ingredients are, except for the mint. I'll go into the yard and chop off a bit if it's up already.

Thank you!

No trubs!

Linguine with a lighter then light, white wine, lemon biased clam sauce.

freshly made waffles