weather poll and Ovo recipe.

[Guest guest]

It's cool here, in the sixties during the days and forties at night, and I'm

trying to put off using the furnace, so I've been cooking lots of soups, baking

bread, and stewing root vegetables in a roaster with lots of liquid--sorta like

a pot roast without the meat....Most recent experiment is yellow split pea soup

with carrots, chopped yellow bell pepper, onions, potatoes, and a little corn

meal to thicken the soup when it just wouldn't thicken on its own from the split

peas.  I think I put in too much water.  It needed lots of veggie broth cubes to

not taste like, um, water that had some carrot and potatoes in it earlier.

 

I eat more when I'm cold, when I'm tired, when I'm bored, when I'm lonely, when

I'm having fun, so I can't be sure how the weather is affecting me, except that

the first four conditions seem to be happening at present.  On the other hand, I

am reading cookbooks, and that's always dangerous.

 

Here's an adapted salad recipe which is hearty enough to be lunch.

 

Hard boil one egg and chill it in the freezer.  Put one quarter pound of green

beans in the hot water and cook until they are not crunchy and squeaky against

your teeth--add a little salt.  Chop up one fourth of an onion, and about the

same amount of bell pepper.  Drain the green beans and mix with the chopped

vegetables.  Add salad dressing to taste and stir.  Shell and chop up the egg,

add it to the salad and toss well.  Add salt and pepper as desired.

 

Sue in Wausau and St. Louis