A you a picky eater...........

 

I had seven points.  Celery, sardines, oysters, snails, blue cheese, raisins and grits.  If they were part of a dish and hidden for example celery in a soup, I would eat it.  However, by themselves, all in my list is a no.  Grits, are tasteless, but I haven't had them but once, so it was maybe how it was prepared.  

I won't go out of my way to eat coconut, but will eat it if it's amongst something.  Same with eggplant and tofu.

How about you?

Such sad news.............

Rest in Peace Dolly...................

 

Soup Day.......

We woke up on Saturday to a very over cast day, with a forecast of rain on and off all weekend.  So to my mind it was a soup day!  The one thing I enjoy about making soup is that it's a great way of using stuff up in your fridge and pantry.

So the first thing I did was gather and chop everything up.  As you can see it's a mix of fresh, canned and packaged items.

I found this package of 5 grain mix, so figured that would add fibre to the soup.

More importantly all the grains were pre cooked, so one step less for me.

Then my mother brought over this box of 4 cup of soup's from the UK this summer.

Cup of Soup is a favourite amongst the British and my mother usually has a cup with a sandwich at lunch time.  My brother swears this is as good as the canned version.  We tried it but found it way too sweet for us.

So my stock for this soup was the package of onion soup mix, and the cup of soup mixed in with boiling water.  Due to the salt content in the soup mixes and the canned tomatoes, I did not have to add more salt.  I also added a no salt spice mix and some some minced garlic to the ingredients.

I softened the fresh veggies in a little olive oil and butter, then added everything else and cooked until it was ready.  I let it simmer for an hour or so and this is what it looked like:

It was good, but was missing something.  I had some at lunch time.  Then at supper time, I decided to add a can of coconut milk, and it was SO GOOD.  That was the missing something.  It reminded me of a beef barley soup without the beef!

Do you like soup?  I like a thicker, creamier soup.  

1980's Bedding Trend on the way back.........

As per this article, bed valances are coming back in trend.  In case you have forgotten what they look like this is an example:

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I do remember these and I remember all our beds having them.  As we don't use duvet's on our beds and honestly I think valances are a dust trap, I for one will be passing on this trend.  I also remember have valances on all our windows as well.

Do you have bed valances?  Do you remember them?  Will you be jumping on this trend?

Autumn/Halloween.........

I was in Home Sense the other day and was greeted by all the Autumn and Halloween decorations.  I do enjoy the whole Autumn/Fall decorating theme, though do not do it in our house........but maybe I should?

I of course was drawn to all the glass pumpkins!

Only two more weeks and the kids will be back at school, where has the summer gone too?

Who could resist this..........

Not me, when I was in Home Sense the other day I had to take a look.........

Then of course I had to buy one 😁😉 The paperbacks are $7.99 each which isn't too bad.  They seem to be getting more and more books in Home Sense?

And I said I was going to cut back on reading............

Peaches........

Over the weekend a dear friend dropped off some Ontario Peaches for me.  She got them from the Niagara region.  She goes down there from Brampton each year just to pick up some peaches.  She brought me 7 of them.  I must admit, I am no expert when it comes to peaches.  Do I like them.....yes.  Would I travel over 100 kms just to get some freshly picked....no.

They were as good as they looked, very sweet and tasty.

I had some fresh, chopped up, as eating a peach whole with juice dripping down my face, isn't for me.

I also peeled and chopped one to put in our sugar free jello.  I had mixed feelings about this, and wouldn't put them in jello again, the peach flavour was over powered by the jello.

I had one jello leftover in the fridge with fresh raspberries in it, now they are one of my favourite combinations.

We also have strawberry jello with fresh or frozen sliced strawberries, we all enjoy that.  Orange jello with drained canned mandarins, one small can divided between the four glasses of jello.  Strawberry jello with sliced bananas.  The grandkids love it when I make jello; it's a treat for them as they don't get it at home.

Are you a fan of fresh peaches?  Do you like jello/jelly?