Greetings All.
Granny Smith – hang on. We all second guess our decisions. The country is a better place to be – if you are prepared to handle it.
I made, my first ever, beef barley soup out of leg bones yesterday. I learned a lot! There is a lot of meat on the bone. The recipe was not difficult or hands-on-time consuming. The taste of the broth was amazing! I don’t think I have ever had such a rich beefy-flavored broth. I used four quarts of the asceptically packaged beef broth from the store, and ended up with 5 quarts of soup. We ate one, so now I have 4 quarts to preserve somehow. I will definitely do that again. I need more beef broth in my LTS, so…make it or buy it?
Now I am going to try some Vegan recipes: Curried Sweet potatoes (with greens and chickpeas, and Red Lentil, Mushroom, Millet Stew. Yes, I know, none of that comes out of the freezer, well the frozen greens will, so it does not help my goal of emptying the freezer. Still, Vegan recipes with ingredients that can be easily stored, dry or canned, are a good thing to have. It took a long time, and several stores, to find millet. I hope it was worth it.
We are, again, grateful for our neighbor who plows our drive. Only six inches of snow, and our part of the state missed the blizzard winds, but not a good thing to drive on.
Visited with family last Saturday and learned that my BIL, with Parkinson’s, is having trouble eating and swallowing. Sounds like blender food, or hearty soup time. I wonder if he likes his mother’s split pea soup. Also, something to consider for our future storage – food for people with eating issues.
Ok. Off to listen to the differences between -,, and ,-, and -.- I will get to lesson 5! I found a graphic that shows how each set of dots and dashes is overlaid on its alphabet letter. That has helped a bit. ditdahvisual.png.
Stay snuggy warm, friends.