I am doing (trying to do) a bit more drawing on the new calendar each day. A little reminder of something I accomplished. Yesterday it was Pandemic Pantry Soup. Dee's "not a recipe" soup of what she had on hand on a day in March of 2020 when we were all taken by surprise by COVID. The recipe calls for potatoes. I usually have some. We had finished them off the day before. So.....it's just Pantry Soup... I added in more carrots. More celery. It needed something. It has always seemed to "need something" and I was reminded of a way more complicated garden vegetable soup- based on bacon. But what I was thinking about was an addition of ketchup to that soup. So, I added a squirt of ketchup. Stirred and simmered and then tasted. ABSoLuTeLeY delicious. I also added cooked macaroni before eating. Because......everything is better with elbow macaroni.
And I paid the bills and sent a mask pattern to Angie. And I started reading Waxman's Garden of Small Beginnings. Which is about Lili, Annabel and Claire who we meet in the Bookish Life of Nina Hill. In the Garden of Small Beginnings we meet Edward and he sends Madame Hardy Roses.The roses like the ones in my grandmother's garden. Perfumed. There..... and then..... just petals scattered on the lawn. That's all been hybridized out of today's roses- except for the Austin Roses. They still have scent and shatter.
These two books and the third book which I ordered today- Other People's Houses-- might be the high point of the Winter for me. But I have Louise Penny up next.
No sunshine here in Maine. Cloudy dark and dismal. And cold. I am happy to have my soup. Happy to have my book. Sigh- not happy to have Washing Machine Pages (again so soon) to write in the very chilly bathroom while I wash the bed sheets........ and kitchen towels used to wipe up the chicken soup husband spilled all over the kitchen floor and counters. There was enough left for his bowl of soup.
I am considering mask making- I made the others well after dark- I might do that again. There is a sprigged blue cotton here on the ottoman where I am reading. Just a sliver of it visible. But I keep looking at it. And it might be okay for a mask. Or I will use the tomato print. But daughter is requesting a repeat of the three I made for her. Procrastinating. It's my fall back position.
I have added vinegar to my vegetable soups from time to time and find it makes almost a sweet and sour type of mean. I like it a lot that way. Haven't thought to add ketchup, I don't eat much of that but I do have some and perhaps I'll try that next time.
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