Joan--The cold front that came through Georgia is now here in Florida, so we will have a cooler day tomorrow, and then the warm air returns.

We had more of the black-eyed peas with brown rice, vegetables, and ham for Sunday night dinner, an easy microwave warm-up.

I made a little chicken veg soup with lentils to have as a side to my pizza. I made enough pizza dough for 3 small pizzas.

Tonight I had a fish sandwich and fruit.

Stay warm my friends!

We ate more black-eyed peas with brown rice, vegetables, and ham, along with cornmeal muffins. We also microwaved the last of the broccoli.

We are heading home tomorrow, so I combined the little bit of black-eyed peas dish from this week with sauteed red bell pepper, celery, and microwaved frozen peas. We had it with spinach salad and the last of the corn muffins.

I have actually been cooking this week. Last month aside from Thanksgiving, I've been living off of chicken soup. Chicken soup in crock pots, chicken soup in pressure cooker, chicken soup with Turnips and Ginger and chicken soup with carrots and celery. Chicken soup with crackers, chicken soup with bagel chips, chicken soup with rice. I was trying to drown a cold in chicken soup but the cold just kept hanging on.
So this week I branched out to curried pumpkin soup with chickpeas, chicken thighs deboned and fried in a skillet, and the star of the show, roasted chicken thighs with glutinous rice. See the recipe in Woks for Life. I'd forgotten how much time it takes to cook. I still have 1/2 pumpkin in the refrigerator as I got tired of cutting up pumpkin and decided I didn't really need a double batch of pumpkin soup. The chicken with glutinous rice stuffing wasn't as glamorous as the picture and I didn't have time to cook some green vegetable to go with it.
Also I have another pot of chicken soup in the slow cooker.

A cooking success is that I canned 6 pints of Chocomouse's maple syrup in pint containers. I had to use a hot water bath for 5 pints as the "easy" method didn't work for them. But this was the project I most wanted to accomplish this week so I am congratulating myself. I think the last time I had one pint that wouldn't seal so I marked it for immediate consumption and lots of pancakes.