Tonight we had smoked pork chops and a salad.
An article on possible substitutes for Red #3
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We had tomato soup and fried cheese sandwiches, warm and tasty.
We had some more of the cock-a-leekie soup and salads.
We've got a plan at this point--meat loaf.
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I had a big salad, Diane had two hard boiled eggs and a smaller salad.
The Big Blue river near Fairbury NE has a lot of bald eagles, too, and a number of golden eagles, too.
I grew up near the Mississippi, in NW Illinois. My grandparents used to tell me about the river freezing over and being able to drive over to Iowa back in the 30's.
When I was young, one of the interesting things to do in the winter was go to the lock and dam near Bellevue IA and watch the eagles, hundreds of them! They were less common for a few decades due to DDT, but they've rebounded and you can find lots of videos showing the eagles taking advantage of the dam for easy fishing.
We had smoked pork chops.
The bread is very tasty, for several years this was our every-day bread. It's probably been close to a year since I've made it, but I didn't forget the recipe, though I did have a shaping issue. It gives that loaf character.
We had tomato soup and fried cheese sandwiches on the freshly baked honey wheat bread. Yummy.
One of my loaves sort of uraveled a little, it'll make some interesting shaped slices.
I'm making honey wheat bread today, not so much because we need it (though I don't think there's any in the freezer) but because it is 63 in the kitchen today.
We had more of the cock-a-leekie soup for supper, I skimmed off the fat that had solidified at the top (chicken fat isn't very flavorful), added a little butter for flavor, some more pepper and some basil. I also chopped the chicken up into smaller pieces, Diane thought some of them were too big for a spoon.
It was quite a bit better that way, so I'm adding notes on that to the recipe, as this is a recipe I'll make again. I've still got about a dozen leeks in the garden that I will be digging up over the next month or two, but I think I'll make potato leek soup with the next batch I dig up.
