November | 2012 | apronsandappetites

It’s soup season!! All over Facebook people are making chili and soup. Yesterday I made Mom’s vegetable beef soup from the recipe that all her sisters used. A few years ago the family on Mom’s side had a reunion and brought recipes for a small cookbook. In it, in my Aunt Biddie’s handwriting, is the soup recipe they all used.

Here are some pics of the Aunts’ Soup:

We always add homemade egg noodles to this soup.

Filled with cabbage, potatoes, carrots, onions, celery, tomatoes, vegetable or tomato juice, and beef. Yuuuuuummmmm

While the vegetables cook, I make the egg noodles. This time I cooked them in water before I added them to the soup, but normally I just add them straight to the soup. I always use my Granny’s, Dad’s mom’s, old rolling pin. This thing has seen untold numbers of pie crust, dumplings, noodles…

The end product is always served with cornbread at our house, and this time I made it in the neat cornbread pan that was my grandfather-in-law’s, Joe Wright. I love using things like that; always reminds me of people I love.

Mmmmm Can’t wait to dig in!!

Here is another good soup recipe I found in my cooking escapades. It’s really, really good. Next time I will leave out the pasta, though.

Kale, White-Bean, and Sweet-Potato Soup

And once again I am not sure who to give credit to for this recipe. I just know it was in a magazine that I have clipped and saved over the years:

Kale, Bean, Sweet Potato Soup Recipe

Halloween has come and gone once again, and I finally found my prince to set me free… at the end of about 300 guests or so.

Princess in Prison

The spooky spider web with the spooky spiders were all over the front of the ~~house~~ prison with the evil witch’s broom standing there ready for her to jump on and fly. The bones of the poor deceased knights who had previously tried to save me were strewn across the yard. And the wicked witch had changed herself into a broom! Whenever an unsuspecting person walked by or touched it, she would laugh hysterically and move all over the place! Just horrific!

My train is soooo long! And my ring is shining because of the witch’s spell!

All evening I looked and looked for my prince. Any suitor was not culled and told to ignore the bones of the previous knights; that surely the prospective suitor would be able to save me!

I just knew some of these superheros or ninjas or zombies could save me. When I asked them if they would save me from the evil witch’s prison, they would look torn as if they just weren’t quite sure what to do, but the weight of their candy-filled pumpkins and the knowledge that more treats were out there eventually won them over, and they left me in the clutches of the evil witch in the form of a broom. Alas.

Not all the names are known of these mighty warriors, but all did stop long enough in their trick-or-treat escapades to let me photograph them.

Finally!! One of the mighty warriors relented and said they would save me!