sunday

[mellybrelly]

Last weekend Reagan was bummed that she missed out riding her bike around the neighbourhood with Amelia and Sierra, our teenage neighbour. Today I suggested a walk, and of course it's raining, but we went anyway. Nice walk, around a few blocks. Gave us some ideas for our house, landscaping wise, with sheds, and I think I'll do brick face on our front porch area, instead of re-painting it. I love the look. Reagan jumped in puddles in her rain boots, and saved worms from puddles.

I made turkey vegetable soup this morning, full of onions, celery, leeks, carrots, corn, navy beans and kidney beans. The stock was probably the best stock I've ever made. I kept everything Christmas week, veggie peels, veggie tops, mushroom stems, onion skins and it cooked for days, along with turkey and bones from our dinner. I am not sure I'll be able to eat it, but I think Tim and Reagan will like it. Plus there is tons, so I can freeze it and have it for future weekends. We've actually used up all the soup I had frozen! We have some nice sourdough bread, so will have that rather than making biscuits.

Slowly getting caught up on laundry from Vegas, thanks to Tim. Made waffles for lunch. Snuggled with Tim on the couch this morning, or rather, he snuggled with me.

Reagan has been so funny this weekend, doing plays for us. She told us they were British plays, so she had a "British" accent. She sounded like the mouse from American Tale "wewease the swecwet weapon". Apparently accent = lisp to her. Yesterday I was almost crying, I was laughing so hard. Today I managed to keep it together.

All in all a nice weekend!

Comments

[popchex.livejournal.com]

lol at the accent. :D

That soup sounds good! :D

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

I should have videotaped her, it was too funny.

The soup looked good, I cooked some whole wheat pasta off on the side and added it for them. I ate a bunch of leftovers, I think soup looks too much like what I've been staring at in the toilet after most meals, via the pregnancy. :P

[totheleft.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmm sounds amazing! and i want to see these plays :P

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

She would definitely do them for you, she's such a ham.

[said-by-me.livejournal.com]

I wish I could cook like you do

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

I wish I could cook like I used to ;)

I just do a lot of playing around with recipes and I think it helps that I grew up in a house where most things came from scratch, so it was normal for me.

[hexkitten.livejournal.com]

How do you make your stock? I just use the little cubes from Loblaws.

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

If I make a turkey or whole chicken or ham, I put the bones and meat into a big huge pot with a lot of water. I save all my onion skins, pieces of onion, add celery and celery tops, any other veggie pieces I have like carrot peels, mushroom stems, and throw in about 5 or so whole, chopped onions. Then I simmer that for 1-3 days. When it's done, strain it into a large bowl, and I put it in containers for the freezer, or start soup.

It's kind of fun, if you have the time to do it.

[hexkitten.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm going to try this.

One to three days on the stove or a crock pot?

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

I prefer it on the stove. I did it in the crockpot once, and I found my house stunk like raw onion for 2 days. I don't know why. I know a lot of people love doing stock in the crockpot!

[landorki.livejournal.com]

IT SOUNDS LIKE A PERFECT DAY!

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

Was a great weekend all round!