Wonderful Dinner!

Today was a very hectic and chaotic day for me. I know that we have all had one similar. Well, when I got up I looked through a cookbook and then decided I really wanted to fix some cabbage soup in the crockpot. I opened the refridgerator and got out the ingredients I had and placed on the counter and began cutting up my cabbage,and carrots. When the "Paddi", one of our shitzu dogs came into the kitchen with her legs crossed, so I let her outside and the cat darted in the house. I followed the dog outside to watch her so she doesn't go visiting the neighbors. When she completed her business, I returned inside the house and the cat was at the doorway to the basement staircase, I nudged her to take her first step down the steps and she trotted on downstairs to the family room. I closed the basement door on her and returned to chopping vegetables for my soup. Then I hear the cat knocking on the door, so I open the door and she comes up whining to eat. I recently moved all the cat and dog food to the basement, so I went downstairs and opened a can of catfood for the cat and put it up high on a low shelf so the dog didnt' get it, since she was now at my feet as well, sniffing the aroma of salmon. I saw that I had left my computer on from the night before, so I go sit down at the computer to finish what I had got called away from last night. Then I recieve a phone call from my mother asking if I will take her to the store to get somethings that she needs. She will put her coat on if I go right up. I agree, and I return upstairs to get my coat and I see my vegetables still on the counter waiting to go into the crockpot.
AARRGGH!!!! So, quickly, I chop the remaining ingredients and toss it in the crockpot and run out the door to help my mother.

Tonight, when I returned home to smell the dinner ready and waiting was so wonderful!
It was absolutely delicious as well! I made it different today than I usually do, because I didnt' have any stew meat, which I usually use. Today in place of that I used ground beef and sausage... Oh how wonderful this was! I may never go back to using the stew meat.
So, here is my recipe.. I do not cook alot by measurements, I eyeball things alot.
So if that works for anyone this is what I did.

Cabbage Soup
3 carrots, chopped
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 small onion, chopped
5 stems & springs fresh celantro , chopped
1/2 head cabbage chopped bite size
1/4 lb hamburger , just picked into small pieces and placed in the crockpot raw.
1/3 package of Jimmy Deans Italian sausage
1 can swansons chicken broth
1 quart canned tomatoes from my food storage
1 tsp garlic powder,
salt and Pepper to taste

I cooked it on high in my crockpot and it was done when I came home after 3 hrs.

It was so good!! I love vegetables! Even my husband who doesn't really enjoy vegetables ate all his dinner. There was just "enough" and wasn't anything left over! Love it when that happens!

March Snows

This month is beginning with snow. We need the rain and its wonderful to smell the rain, there's nothing like it. I love the smell of rain. Not too long after the rain started, the snow came, It looked alot like Christmas again.

Tonight, we have a choir concert to attend. Last evening we attended the BE Middle School's Orchestra concert. They are always long, as they begin with the 5th grade students at the intermediate school and work their way up to the High school students. I beleive its rude to get up in the middle of a concert and leave. So we sit through all the schools. This is what happens when the school districts limit the music departments. Mr. Findlay teaches at the intermediate school and plays musical chairs allday as he travels from the intermediate school to the Middle school (old jr. high school) and then to the High School. So concerts are long! Last evening was worth the effort to attend. They were pretty good. At some concerts you must have forgiving ears. Not too much last night. I always enjoy listening to my children perform music.
Tonight is the concert for the choirs. Ones ears do not have to be so forgiving at these concerts.

The snows continue tonight!