Tasty Tuesday

Dinner...

Do you see chicken, duck and garden vegetables?

Lost in Transformation.

Shopping Around the World...

We're crashing the shopping around the world segment.

But it's a potato.  Who doesn't have a favourite potato recipe?

Ours is a knock-off of a knock-off of Zuppe Toscana.

Now, the REAL recipe calls for bacon, cream and kale.

Having grown up in Virginia, the word kale

brings  back images of a black-green glob of sludge--ugh--

on the school lunch plate.  So kale is definitely OUT,

and so are bacon and cream.

Basically, it has Italian sausages....which flavours the soup...so highly spiced are recommended.

POTATOES

onion

garlic

celery stick

olive oil

chicken stock...or vegetable if that's what SHE grabs

Bok choi, or chinese cabbage, or regular cabbage

in place of the K ingredient.

 Chop the onion, celery and stems of bok choi. 

Saute in olive oil until sausage browned.

 Chop potatoes into bite-size pieces, add, and cover with stock

or water (in our case) with the right amount of stock powder.
You can add some pepper at this point, but be careful of salt if using stock powder or cubes.

Simmer until potatoes are cooked.

Chop up the K substitute, place in bowl. 

The hot soup will wilt it.

Add some milk (or cream), salt and pepper to taste

and enjoy.

Now, the cost is difficult as most of the ingredients we

have in the cupboard and use very minute amounts.

Sausages  $1 each (used three)
Potatoes $1 for two
Onion $.75
Celery $.10
Bok choi $1.25
Stock powder $.10
milk
Makes about 3 bowls AUD$6.20
£3.55
€3.99
Canadian $6.01
US$4.73
As the saying goes 'You are what you eat.'
so that makes HER, fast, easy and cheap!

Our door doggy.

The narrower the doorway, the more Dui plugs it.

Guess Who

made sure she was ready to get in the car today?

Yep, Bella.

She was somewhere inside yesterday, probably sleeping, and just missed everyone getting in the car.

Could have been that the car was in a different place and we went out another door.

Today, she was ready.

Left behind...

We had a wet weekend.  Though we did go to the river.

Today, for our second walk, we went to the sportsgrounds.

But, do you notice anything?

No Bella!

She didn't come to get in the car.

We don't know where she was.

So she got left behind.

Still here Saturday

STILL doin' the same ole, same ole.

Bella

 STILL unkempt.

Dui

 STILL dirty.

STILL enjoying life.

So far, we've had cool mornings and mild days.

We've had a bit of rain and a windy thunderstorm.

Roxy and Bella protected HER by staying very close

and following HER everywhere until the storm abated.

Dui didn't help at all.  He ignored the storm.

There was an altercation with the magpies one day.

Dui was seen chasing them around the driveway.

We now have one 'hoppy' magpie.  He has a useless leg

which could be just a coincidence.

Hoppy

All three magpies arrive several times a day for food.

They treat us like a fast-food window,  just calling in their order.

One day we had to close the shades and close the front door

and pretend we weren't home.  They were there every hour.

Have a good weekend.