A friend recently posted a Paula Deen recipe on facebook and I tried it out for dinner tonight. It was yummy and super simple- a winning combo for busy moms out there (or anyone else who enjoys coming home to dinner ready in the crockpot)!
* Potato Soup *
3 cans 14 oz. ckn. broth (I used 4 ckn. boullion and added 42 oz. of water)
1 can cream of ckn. soup
1 bag frozen hash browns
1/2 onion, chopped (and if you are like me and my hubby dear, we chop the onions soooo small that you get the FLAVOR without the TEXTURE)
1/4 tsp. black pepper
1 package cream chz., softened
Instructions: Mix all ingredients in a crock pot EXCEPT for the cream chz. Cook on low for 5 hours, stirring occasionally. Stir in cream cheese and allow to cook for an additional 30 minutes before serving.
My taste testers were a two year old and a 29 year old Crohn's Disease patient, and myself- who doesn't find much to be appetizing right now- and this soup passed with flying colors with all!
Michael did comment that it would be really good with some crumbled bacon and shredded cheese on the top(typical man thing: must always have MEAT). I do think it would add a little zip, but this recipe is about SIMPLICITY and frying up some turkey bacon was just one extra thing. That's one more pan to clean. And when you don't have a dishwasher, your thinking changes slightly when it comes to food prep. But next time I fry some bacon for breakfast, I'll make sure to fry extra and freeze it to be used as topping for this yummy soup!
It sure was satisfying on this frigid day! We awoke to find our hot water pipe had frozen over during the night. And I had neglected to do last night's dishes since I wasn't feeling well so I had quite the mess to clean up with no hot water! Temps did not get above freezing here today, so our pipes didn't thaw on their own. Our landlord got things fixed for us late this afternoon~ right after I had decided to tackle the mound of dishes the old fashioned way: Warming 4 large pots of water on the stove and filling the sink. I most definitely would not have survived colonial times. Michael did everything he could to get the pipe thawed, including turning the heat up to 80 degrees. It was so cold outside that it took a while for it to even reach 75 in here, and by then I felt ready to dive in a pool.
Never a dull moment here.
Just one more funny something: Yesterday for lunch I was at a restaurant with Emma and she was eating a cupcake that was a reward for her good behavior during an appointment I had. And I don't know what was going on up there in her little creative mind, but suddenly she was talking about Poppy's horses.
"Horses like eat apples! and horses like.um.uuuhh--- PARROTS!!!"
you mean CARROTS, my dear. lest PETA track us down.
Friday, January 16, 2009
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Because we are in the middle of talking like a two year old and learning a language as adults, I am fascinated with observing babies/children learn a language. I had to laugh at your story about the parrots and carrots confusion because I just did a similar thing the other day two days ago. I was saying that I like to shop at "triperies" (which I learned is a store that sells tripe -- the lining of a cow's stomach) instead of "friperies" (second hand store). So close but oh so far away. And yeah -- I would've upset PETA although there definitely isn't PETA here!
The soup sounds yummy. I can see why you're in a soup mood with those cold temps. We definitely hit the hit of the dry season here -- it's been in the low 90s all week rather than the high 80s. I'd take a little of your cold weather -- then again, the grass is always greener on the other side.
That soup sounds great, and I can just picture you attempting to get those dishes clean!! We had one toilet freeze up yesterday, but got a space heater on it, and it was fine by morning.
Hope you all have a great weekend!!
Love, Abi
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You asked about the coolest temps here -- in the night, it probably gets down to 70 degrees. Today is a very cool day -- it's only 75 degrees and we're to the peak of the day! What a treat after two very hot weeks day after day. Of course, it's not nearly as hot here as other places in Africa which I try to remind myself of often-- I just can't imagine how the people in those places do it! But then I couldn't imagine living with weather in the low 90s without air conditioning either and it's been bearable. :-)
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