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Do you remember the commercial Lipton's put out in the 1970's for their 'instant' soup? I believe it was a little kid that asked the 'Mom' - is it soup yet? That was when they thought pre-packaged stuff was a good thing.

It must have been a pretty good commercial, because I still remember the tag line. However, nowadays, I'm more into making my own soups than buying anything with a bunch of preservatives in it.

As I planted my tomatoes late this year, of course, my crop was late. I finally had to just tear out the plants and pick the tomatoes green. I put them in some cardboard flats with newspaper over the top so they can ripen slowly. Last week I made some tomato soup as I have far too many to be able to just eat.

Today was the last bowl of that batch and I see there's enough ripe tomatoes for me to make another one. Yes! The recipe I found last year had an apple added to the soup, along with turmeric and dill. The soup is absolutely delicious!

As the soup on it's own is still too acidic for my stomach, I add some cream before heating it up. Yum! I'm thinking if I add a little less vegetable broth, it'd probably make a really nice tomato sauce. Hmm... that over zucchini noodles with some chicken - sounds like a meal to me!

Tonight will be chicken peanut satay over zoodles to use up some of my zucchini. I already have several bags in the freezer of grated zucchini for soup, but I may just have to add to that.

I absolutely love home-made soups! Right now, though, time is tight with photos due for exhibition night by tomorrow, and my calendar needing finalization of the images, and a craft fair coming up which I'll have to have enough product for ahead. Busy time!

Still, I'll make time to make more tomato soup, just because it's so darn good.

Is it soup yet?

This round I did a switch.
I wanted to try something sweet... but I didn't have any cream cheese.
Fresh mango, yogurt, honey, mozzarella cheese, pizza dough.
It was okay, but after I realized I forgot butter !



The side split getting it into the pan so some mango juice oozed out.

More than a decade ago, when I wanted an English muffin, I would split it, lather on some real butter, toast it so the butter drips off the edges and then drop a slice of Provolone cheese on top. I could eat a few a week.
Times have changed and I'm consuming less than one English muffin a month, toasted first then adding butter substitute made from Canola oil and lightly sprinkling Parmesan cheese on top.
Options would be a slice of tomato or a few pieces of Hass avocado.
Dinner tonight included sauteed Chinese eggplant (we call them purple airplanes due to their long skinny shape) with celery and it's been a while so I topped them to the English muffin.
A healthier way to butter my bread.

‘Tastes Just Like Real Meat’ – Beetleburgers to Hit Mass Production to Help Feed the World.



Eat bugs and live in a pod.

The globalists and freaks in the left-wing media are trying to convince people to eat bugs.

Eating bugs is degrading and that’s why the elitists are pushing them as a “sustainable” source of protein for the peasants.

According to a new study, ‘beetleburgers’ made from mealworms will hit mass production to help feed the world.

“Mixed with sugar, the beetles supposedly taste just like real meat. They could also become alternatives to sausages or chicken nuggets.” – researchers say.

Beetleburgers could soon be helping to feed the world, according to new research. The creepy crawlers’ larvae — better known as mealworms — could act as a meat alternative to alleviate hunger worldwide. The process uses a fraction of the land and water and emits a smaller carbon footprint in comparison of traditional farming.

To make this a reality, French biotech company Ynsect is planning a global network of insect farms, including nurseries and slaughterhouses. A pilot plant has already been been set up at Dole in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region of France.

“We are in full control of the chain of production. That gives us strength in terms of quality, security and safety,” says Benjamin Armenjon, general manager of Ynsect, according to a statement from SWNS.

Robot arms and automated conveyor belts transport stacks of red trays in every direction. They are are filled with billions of Tenebrio molitor beetle larvae. The dried critters are more than 50 percent protein and rich in fiber and fats as well.

They can be turned into protein powders, shakes, burgers, cereal bars, and even cooking oils at a fraction of the environmental cost of traditional farming. For every one kilogram of protein, Ynsect uses 98 percent less land and emits 40 times less carbon than beef. It also uses 40 times less water than pork production.

The globalists are pushing for the peasants to eat bugs, weeds and synthetic ‘meat’ because bugs “consume fewer resources than traditional livestock.”

Last year the World Economic Forum promoted the EU’s new plan to use mealworms in food in their bid to reduce meat consumption.

“Livestock around the world is responsible for around 14.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions relating to human activity. The need for land – whether for grazing animals or growing crops to feed animals – is “the single greatest driver of deforestation, with major consequences for biodiversity loss,” the paper says.

For years I made my own dog food. After I got the three pound Chi, she just shared my meals so no dog food had to be made. Then when I inherited Lucy, I decided to go back to making my own. Yesterday I went to college (my you tube) to make sure I'm making it healthy. Whew did I learn a lot about dog food.

There are some Nutrients I wasn't adding but need to.
Beans for magnesium (the girls don't like beans so I will have to mash them)
Cod Liver Oil for Omega 3
an egg and grind up half the egg shell for Calcium
Kelp powder & ground ginger (for something but I forget)
I used yams & carrots but I didn't know I wasn't supposed to peel them, more nutritional if not peeled.
When using chicken or beef - add a small amount of liver for iron.

The rest of the ingredients I already used. The only thing is NEVER to use onions or garlic which is toxic to dogs. (Shame as I have used garlic in almost everything)

Making cat food is a different ball game but I'm not playing that one as I don't own cats.

I can (usually) resist cookies and donuts, but the other night in the grocery store they had Biscotti on sale... 2fer1. This style is heavy double baked unlike others that are soft and spongy.
Almond & Vanilla. I'm up to one a day... okay, two a day and see my supply dwindling. I might not make it through the week.

Another frustrating but productive day at my nephew's (rented) house clearing furniture before the end of the month. We had a truck stop by for donations. They were picky and only took the prime items... metal framed computer desks with glass tops, wine fridge, bicycle and one table. That left lots of other things. My niece called up some social media link like Craig's list and one woman came by for the baby tricycle and some laundry bins. A young couple took 2 parsons tables, carpet and will return tomorrow for some mirrors and possibly another table.
It was late and my wife suggested sushi. I found a place via GPS on the way home listed as a Chinese Buffet with sushi. While most of the food was tasty, I didn't like how everything was in a glaze sauce. I avoided some foods as my guess was they were sugar coated. The fried Pollock was really good and so was the sirloin pieces.

Priced less than the buffet we normally go to, it was an okay experience... at first!

Mentioned in a few of my blogs is the danger of MSG as 'we don't get along' very well.
Getting home wasn't an issue... staying awake was. I crashed in the chair and later landed on the bed. I wasn't alone in the ill effects as my wife crashed on the sofa. We both had headaches and dizziness. It's more than 5 hours later and we haven't recovered.

Knowing what I know now, it's amazing this restaurant got 4 out of 5 stars on Yelp!
I don't have a Yelp! account... but if I did my review would probably read: Dinner and vertigo $11.95.

A new Asian market opened in North Miami recently and the selection of seafood is amazing. The seafood display is at least 50 feet long. Live fish in tanks, lobster, blue crabs...
From the common to the exotic, it's all there. Great prices too!

I am pretty adventurous in the kitchen. I love to come up with some good ideas for food. For example: Yesterday, I had four brioche buns with pulled pork. But before I could eat, I had a brainwave: What if I put the buns in the oven for about a minutes time? Maybe that will improve the experience.. It did! The buns were just on the light crispy stage, that I consider the sweet spot! Lemme tell you, it was amazing! It made me think about what else to make. I had some chicken strips in the fridge, and I have a one-person meal of a dish we here call svensk pølseret. Translated to English, it's 'Swedish sausage dish'. It's VERY tasty! It has sausages (obviously), potatoes, onion and a special sauce that's so damn tasty! Anyway, I was wondering how chicken would taste in that dish, so I cooked up some chicken strips, and threw them in the fridge for tomorrow. I will then take half of the chicken and mix it into the sausage dish, just to see how it will taste. I am NOT going outside tomorrow, since I did some food shopping today. I bought enough food for five days, so I am good! And yes, I also bought some more to drink, since I was running low.

Now I just need to figure out what to eat the rest of the week. I have a frozen meal that I can eat one day, and I have some fish and chicken in the freezer, that I can cook up. I also have a bag of hash that I can cook up. For those of you that don't know what hash is, it's a culinary dish consisting of chopped meat, potatoes, and fried onions. The name is derived from French: hacher, meaning "to chop". It originated as a way to use up leftovers. In the USA by the 1860s, a cheap restaurant was called a "hash house" or "hashery.". Put some ketchup and a fried egg on it, and it's just to DIE for! Well, not LITERALLY to die for, but you get the meaning. I hope. Finally I also have a very Danish dish, that consists of rice, meat balls and a curry sauce! Great comfort food, particularly these days where it's cold and the weather is bad!

I have never really been a good cook. My parents never really taught me to cook. I had my first real cooking experience when I moved to Scotland in 2014. It was a HUGE wake-up call for me. Suddenly I had to do everything myself. I guess I was a pretty oblivious person, now that I think about it.. Anyway.. I mainly lived on frozen food, at least for the first five months. After that, I thought 'I don't want to eat frozen food things forever', so I upgraded to nuggets and fries, and then I branched out to steaks and fries. Lots of fries, for some reason. They are cheap and everyone loves them. Did I eat veggies? Of course! But not as much as I should have done. It's the same story now that I am in Denmark. The last time I ate any sort of vegetable, was when I had cucumber on my lunch last week. Wow, I really need to just eat a salad at some point.

My roommate is, according to himself, an EXCELLENT cook. I beg to differ! For instance, when he cooks pasta, he puts oil - yes oil - into the water. When I suggested that the only thing you really need to cook pasta is water and salt, he was ADAMANT that it was wrong, and his way was the correct way that all the chefs cook pasta. I know a few Italian people who would go 'Mamma mia' if they saw how he cooked pasta. But each to their own, I suppose. If he wants to use oil to cook pasta, then that's what he will use. The pot just gets VERY greasy and yucky after cooking with the oil in, whereas my pot will just be wet. I also finally learned how to cook rice - because I use boil-in-bag rice . Just follow the instructions, and the rice will be perfect every time.

I'm sorry this blog is a bit long, but sometimes I have a lot to say. Mostly about nothing, but today was about food! By the way, if you have any suggestions for recipes, please let me know in a comment. I'll then cook it and let you know how it was. Just don't make them expensive or super tricky. I am still a novice in cooking. Somewhat.

No, she wasn't my aunt, but her death bears great significance. Breakfast won't be the same without her. I do pancakes once a month and the large box I had was empty last week.

I headed over to WalMart to buy another box and Aunt Jemima disappeared. In her place were boxes by Pearl Milling Company. I never heard of them before this. They have the audacity to say Original. Original what? Original copies of Aunt Jemima?

I'm annoyed by this... So what's next?
I guess you'll be saying Uncle Ben died too...


The death of Aunt Jemima...