Sunday – 7/1/2018 – Soup Month

Hi all! I made split soup last week with the ham bone from Christmas–it was so good! This week I’ll be making turkey and rice with vegetables with the turkey carcass/leftover from Thanksgiving. Luckily, Mr. KZ loves soup, and so do I. Nothing is better when it’s this cold outside!

We are due for nasty weather tonight, a freezing mix of everything I’m afraid. The ground is so cold now if it rains, it will freeze and will be very dangerous. Ice cleats are a must for this kind of weather.

That wee grey tabby is opening his paws for me!!!!!

“What the Duck” hehehe!

Either I’m adjusting to it or it seems to be less cold. Supposed to get much warmer this wk, well relatively warmer.

KZ, you’re so right re cleats. Weather peeps warned of black ice under snow today and in my new higher cleated boots I was just zooming along! 🙂

The only soup I’d manage is the kind that comes in pouches that I just have to place in micro dish and heat for like 5 mins. And I do have purrhaps one or 2 types in freezer so could be a plan. For me, cooking up a big pot of soup for me seems pointless, as what I want one day I will not want the next and I’d end up throwing out most of it.

Love split pea soup!! Lots of warm goodness …. Miss Caddy went back outside today, her choice, I put her at the doorstep, with the door open, so if she chose to stay in she could have ….. she wasn’t in a hurry, but ventured out, then immediately started to check all her fav spots.

KJ, you have shocked me. We worry about you with the battery drill and even a craft knife or screwdriver but an M-16 ! 😮 😮
You never cease to surprise me girl.
We have a hot sunny Monday here and I am feeling good. Had a 3 monthly check up and I have made some really good changes in my bloodtest numbers and also lost a stone thanks to a nutrition course and working hard at the gym. 🙂
KZ, we finished out Christmas ham lastnight and I put the bone in the freezer until rubbish day but now I will save it for hambone soup thanks to your comment. Will have to check out what to do though. Keep safe with the nasty weather KZ, no going outside unless you have to as we don’t want you to slip over and hurt your hip.
PG, I will investigate making ham bone broth.
AV, Caddy was ‘reading the news’ as Mum put it, to check who has been in her territory while she was gone.
KJ, I watched a documentary about the Foreign Legion a few years ago, utterly fascinating and phew! that training is amazingly tough.
I got HRH inside last night and she went to sleep in her favourite spot under Airy’s bed until the wee small hours when she hogs our bed. This morning she didn’t come down to go outside or eat. Mr MS checked on her and she was asleep. I can’t get down on the floor to check on her under the bed but managed to lie on the bed and hang over and look at her and she seemed fine. Finally at 1pm she wandered down stairs and asked to go out, then came back in later and ate breakfast. I guess she just wanted a sleep in. I was worried though as it was so out of character.

That’s great MS. Your MD must be proud of you as are we all!

Purrhaps ’cause gazpacho is cold, PG? And I totally agree. By rights soup should be steaming hot. There’s some sort of fruit soup which to me would be the same thing as pouring juice in a glass. I did make my formerly frozen cream of mushroom soup and it was quite satisfying.

Yup as I’ve retold countless times, 1st trip to Israel our group got to do some “training” on an army base. Fortunately I’d brought my gym tights as when we were given fatigues, efurrything was way too big for me, and while a loose shirt works, well I was not about to go around bare-bottomed! 🙁 Surprisingly they let us use live ammo and some jokers in our group actually walked within range as we were target shooting! The officer assigned to me was a Brit, nice-looking, and had I been shooting at a live purrson, said purrson would no longer have been alive! Admittedly it was empowering. Was told that grrls tend to excel at sharp-shooting. Of course I shut my eyes when firing and an assault weapon has a srs kick. Real neat to see a lovely grrl from OZ as drill sergeant for a troop of male recruits!

PG, you a “wild child”? I can’t even fathom it! 😉

Lagatta, are you not warm in your place? Here I can adjust the heat to my liking, and I guess pay for it. Also use a small baseboard heater for direct heat, fireplace style. Anyway it’s supposedly getting warmer this week.

Must finish watching doc on French Foreign Legion where there is a surfeit of unfluffy language from show host. And even though I can speak French and do look good in khaki I would not last 2 secs in this or any sort of boot camp.

MS, I take my ham bone (usually with ham bits still stuck to it) and cover it with water and let it simmer for a few hours. The pieces of meat fall off and some I pick off if they look edible, but not the gristle or fat. It makes the best split pea soup ever! If you don’t like pea soup, it would make a wonderful savory broth for noodles. I do the same with beef soup bones (the butcher packages them for me) since we have our own beef, to make vegetable soup. I do love gazpacho though, so refreshing in the summer.

Wonderful news from the doctor–good job!! I will be watching the weather tomorrow and will stay in since they are calling for a mix of everything–already the temps here are 28 degrees–it hasn’t been that warm for a month!

Missed this on Sunday!
Adding my 2.5 cent worth today:

Moroccan Vegan Stew with Chickpeas, Sweet Potatoes, Spinach & Raisins

Moroccan Vegan Stew with Chickpeas, Sweet Potatoes, Spinach & Raisins

Easy Chickpeasy Stew 😀

Yes, I’ll definitely make that! There are always chick peas in my pantry, obviously to make hummus tahini, but lots of other things as well.

For some reason I find chick peas and lentils much easier to digest than New World beans, though I do love black beans. My tummy doesn’t, though…