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12 hours ago, NebulousMissy said:

Well the Autumnal equinox is September 22, so I think Tuesday is the officially accepted Northern Hemisphere beginning of soup season. Also cider and all the fall foods.

 

No, not too early. Never a bad time for a food question :ph34r:

 

I could use some soup suggestions, I'm supposed to be feeding my 18 year old salt and fluids.  Soup seems a logical solution.  

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2 minutes ago, LittleBluberry said:

 

I could use some soup suggestions, I'm supposed to be feeding my 18 year old salt and fluids.  Soup seems a logical solution.  

 

This is a soup that can be a whole meal

 

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11 hours ago, Kuroneko said:

We ended up at IKEA this morning, allegedly just for bulbs. I have no idea how the shark got in the trolley :ph34r:

 

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That's easy, items in ikea have an attraction to other items in Ikea so you always end up with things you had no idea about until you reach the register

 

Especially with children in tow

Trick is to use the shortcuts to avoid the children's section :-P

 

6 hours ago, WhiteWulfe said:

Am I seriously the only person that can go into ikea with a list of items I'm there for, and walk out only with those items? 

 

No, I don't "cheat" by making sure I only have enough to get what's on my list, I spend a lot of time thinking about what I'm going to get before, and I'm tactical about it... 

 

My last trip to Ikea took me 18 minutes from driving into the carpark to driving out of it...with only the things I was planning to get (somehow managed with a tired toddler in tow)

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4 hours ago, LittleBluberry said:

 

I could use some soup suggestions, I'm supposed to be feeding my 18 year old salt and fluids.  Soup seems a logical solution.  

 

3 hours ago, LittleBluberry said:

I'm going to have to explore home made ramen more, she likes that.  Maybe egg drop soup, that's a nice side dish.  

 

Ramen will certainly fulfill the salt requirement, and it's a trendy millenial thing. Drop a soft cooked egg on top. Add whatever vegetables she'll eat.  You can look online for additional ways to dress up a bowl of noodles.

 

I usually start soup with Better than Bullion. It's a paste, and IMO makes a better soup. It comes in vegetarian forms, if needed.  The jar is a tad spendy, but makes something like 42 cups.  Once you decide what flavor base to use, add vegetables (carrot, onion, celery, etc) and either beans or pasta, and voila, you have soup. 

 

Tomato soup is fairly easy, chicken broth and canned tomato.  Adding cream can help with the acid. 

 

It's not cold enough yet but Amazing Chicken Tortilla Soup! really is terrific.  It's a Christmas tradition here (long story) and I make mine with a can of black beans added to it.  It's a great way to use up a rotisserie chicken carcass. 

 

DH likes a hearty beef barley soup.  Beef broth, carrot, onion, celery chopped fine,  diced cooked steak or pot roast, and pearl barley.  

 

Friend of mine makes a lovely butternut squash bisque.  One squash roasted, scooped out and pureed with some chicken broth, and a little heavy cream.  Add salt to taste. 

 

Hope that gives you some ideas. :) 

 

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9 hours ago, Pezler the Polychromatic said:

Why do they call it hummus when it doesn't hum?

For that was the name of the great beasts hunted to extinction by hippies sometime in the late 70s. Massive yet passive brutes they were, grazing free upon the plains, but the taste of them sent the hippies into a sharklike feeding frenzy... not a sight to dwell on.

So great was the bounty of their flesh that all hummus currently served comes from one of the stockpiles, which are not expected to run out until sometime around 2090, unless of course the Food Channel makes hummus "trendy" which may knock a decade or so off the estimations.

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4 hours ago, ratsmitglied said:

 

Trick is to use the shortcuts to avoid the children's section :-P

I think our local one caught onto that tactic a decade or so ago, because the last shortcut upstairs... Takes you literally right into that section.. And not only is it the kids section, but it also smells like whatever they're cooking, so you get extra hungry before you can make it to the stairs leading to the main level... 

 

4 hours ago, ratsmitglied said:

My last trip to Ikea took me 18 minutes from driving into the carpark to driving out of it...with only the things I was planning to get (somehow managed with a tired toddler in tow)

That's a pretty good result. I think my best is about 22 minutes to get in, grab the few items I wanted, wait in line, then get back to vehicle...  Such a pity I won't be able to do such runs for much longer at work (well, not unless I want to get in trouble, anyways) 

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7 hours ago, LittleBluberry said:

 

I could use some soup suggestions, I'm supposed to be feeding my 18 year old salt and fluids.  Soup seems a logical solution.  


Italian sausage, browned

Potato, sliced thick and quartered

Chopped kale

Pint of heavy cream

Box of chicken broth

Red pepper to taste

 

Brown the sausage, strain out the grease, dump everything in a pot, then boil one hour.

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Y'know, it's been a while since I've fired up a game that's pulled me in so deep... And I'm happy as all about it. 

 

Yup, gave most of my weekend to Elite:Dangerous and I'm insanely happy about it... Doubly so since I decided hey, why not, let's sign up for two expeditions, with one of them starting out at a decently far away point of interest, Colonia.  I'm loving my little Diamondback Explorer, various things with it, and also it's 66.04 ly jump range... Even more so since that's double what it was when I was first sterting out with it about a week ago, if that... 

 

Oh, and the trip to Colonia is 25k ly away, so it's going to be a bit of time to get there - good thing that second expedition has over two months left within it. Going to be interesting flying out into the black for the first time. Natural question is... Will I ever come back to the bubble once I start seeing the sights? 

 

Hey, if I can't see the stars rl due to work schedules (and clouds, don't forget the clouds) conspiring agaiant such for the time being (give it another month, and there will be a reasonable window to look up through a telescope on work days)... I'll take the second best thing! 

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