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chochiyo_sama ([personal profile] chochiyo_sama) wrote2008-11-09 12:20 pm
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Time for a break

well, I spent $80 some bucks on groceries...ugh.  i was horrified to discovered that my favorite go-to easy meal (hot dogs) has risen in price to like $5 for a package!!  For $2.00 more I could get a roast.  So I did.

WTF???

$5 for something made of "lips and assholes"????

LOL

That's what my Grandma Neitzell used to tell us hot dogs were made of.

Never stopped us from eating them.

Well, if I don't cook on the weekends, I do not eat decently during the week.  So I have just popped a roast with potatoes, onions and carrots into the oven and I have a big batch of homemade chicken barley and vegetable soup on the stove.  It is completely made from scratch and smells soooooo good.  i wish you could all come over and join me in a bit bowl of it.  It has barley and chicken and carrots and onions and potatoes and celery and rutabaga in it as well as a big of tomatoes that my mom froze for me to give it body.  yummmmmmmy.

I decided to take a little break and write a progress report as it was sort of tiring to cut up all those veggies by hand--especially the rutabaga which is almost but not quite as hard as a rock.  it sure adds body and flavor to a soup, though.

I still have half of it left.  I don't know if you can freeze a raw rutabaga or not.  I'll have to call my mom and ask.

I suppose I could just boil it up with some potatoes and make mashed potatoes.  i have heard that it is really tasty when added to mashed potatoes in addition  to adding a lot of nutrients. 

I have a squash I need to bake as well.  i love squash.

Well, Jim and DeAnn are stopping over to get some of this soup--it is way to big a batch for me to eat up on my own.  so i better go and put some in a container for them.

huggles.

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