What with laundry and cooking and baking and son visiting and Gary dashing in, and a nap and an online meeting, Wednesday zoomied by and it's nearly midnight and here's my blog.
I baked a chocolate cake, with cacao nibs on top, very good too. Handsome Son enjoyed some with tea, Gary accepted a couple of slices, he loves chocolate cake.
And I made an amazingly good soup entirely from frozen leftovers of tomatoes, sauce, ground turkey, very spicy rice, whey from making yogurt, and cooked carrot chunks.
I didn't add anything, just heated all the items together and because of the spices already in there, I got one of the best soups I've ever had.
Like tomato rice soup raised to a whole new power. Four more helpings of it to come. I was really surprised at how good it is, and detected the red chili oil helping with the flavor. One of the easiest soups I ever made.
I usually use one or two frozen leftover soup ingredients, but this is the first time they've constituted the entire soup. I must do this again.
Oliver Twist is starting to drag a little, so I'm skipping here and there, and taking refuge in Pride and Prejudice.
Happy day everyone, make freezer soup, it's good.
Yummmmm freezer soup and chocolate cake. Sounds like a perfect day to me
ReplyDeleteIt's a good menu!
DeleteI wish our freezer had such interesting soup components. I seem to be down to parsnips, green tomatoes and chickpeas. As soup that doesn't appeal.
ReplyDeleteIt may need a little something! Like flavor, spices..
DeleteMAKE freezer soup. I’ll just eat freezer soup someone else has made. The chocolate cake sure looks good. Lucky thing for you I don’t live next door.
ReplyDeleteI noticed Gary, who does live next door, being very evident!
DeleteI love chocolate cake! My days always seem to disappear, but I'm nowhere near as productive as you.
ReplyDeleteOne way or another. Wednesdays here are about catching up at home after being out on Tuesdays.
DeleteI can't cook anything without a recipe. I need the instructions even though I have cooked something many times before.
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm at a different point on the continuum, where,bro see a recipe is to decided to change it.
DeleteDelicious, easy soup and yummy chocolate cake! Does life get any better? I think not!
ReplyDeleteIt was pretty good. I doubt if I'll be able to replicate the soup, sigh.
DeleteAs usual, I do admire your cooking skills, and hey, I did make a meal for myself tonight, air fryer lamb chops, potato salad, an already prepared boiled egg along with a greek salad. I may make myself another meal in a week or so.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds pretty good to me. And you do eat good food out too.
DeleteI’ve been using peppers I’ve frozen. I grew them in the garden and had too many so I froze them. They are great! Thank you, Boud. I would not have frozen them without your example!
ReplyDeleteGreat going! There's very little you can't freeze, and it saves waste. Especially after you took the trouble to grow them.
DeleteWhatever-You-Got soup is the best. As you know, I am a master at taking leftovers and creating more leftovers with them.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have to tell you this- Jessie made Vergil an amazing chocolate stout cake for his birthday and they cut a quarter of it to eat then and in the next few days and Vergil vacuum-packed the rest of it in serving sizes to freeze. They will have cake for months!
Vergil knows what's good.
DeleteI made soup a couple of days ago. No chocolate cake, though. I really like chocolate cake, which is why I don't make it. Think little kid stuffing cake into their mouth. You are quite good at using what you have on hand.
ReplyDeleteI usually get about half the cake, after sharing. One piece a day, usually.
Deleteone of our easy, and usually very good though there are times when not so good, when no one feels like cooking is leftover soup. small leftovers from dinners when there isn't enough for even small two servings go in the container in the freezer.
ReplyDeleteExactly the principle. Everything already has flavor, so they can add up really well.
DeleteI read "Oliver Twist" a couple of years ago. I liked it but I remember thinking it would be hard for most student readers -- even though it was definitely on my reading lists in the lower grades of high school.
ReplyDeleteYes, I wonder if students grasped the prostitution and trafficking aspects. Maybe today's more sophisticated students might. The anti semitism is blatant, too.
DeleteFreezer soup is always good. RC usually has at least three or four different soups available in the freezer and the bag 'o possibilities too.
ReplyDeleteYes, if you usually make interesting food, you'll have good freezer soup.
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