I'm taking Janice's advise today and beginning to do some little things for myself. I didn't intend on avoiding a meeting today, but the weather is for sh!t today. I was going to pull in the trash/recycle bins, but the driveway is a complete sheet of (formerly) black ice. It's now mostly covered in snow... but the ice waits beneath!
I just took the Eskie out and it's a slippery mess out there. If I am not mistaken I saw a red and black bus just pull up to our neighborhood... and can clearly see Johnathon Towes and Patrick Kane in our driveway doing warm-ups as I type... yes, it's that slick out there.
ANYHOOTS... I thought I would do something fun, so I made a cream of broccoli soup using only items we already had in the house. I'm steaming a head of broccoli later tonight for dinner, and as they come in pairs from where we buy them... I used the one that was on its last stalk so to speak. I'm also clearing out a few pantry items. Double bonus!
That was fun. Just doing something totally simplistic for a recipe and hemming/hawing over what to add. I chose the lesser avenue and stopped fussing over it. I think it turned out pretty well. Granted, I haven't added the milk portion yet (as we don't have cream or half-and-half in the house)... but from what I tasted so far... not too shabby.
I guess what I'm ultimately saying is that I just wanted to take a day off. I've been doing so many things lately. It was just really fun to come back in after walking the dog to smelling a kitchen that sort of reminded me of my days in France.
All of that out of a simple soup. Go figure.
Back to the normal meeting tomorrow. For now... I've got some parmesan chicken, steamed broccoli and probably a potato or two to get ready for later.
If this soup does turn out, I will post the recipe. Back in the old Blogger days I had one where I would share recipes and photos. Let me try and figure out how to do that again! :-)
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