Thread:Greeneyedlady007/@comment-29193085-20170107173719/@comment-29088925-20170114041909

I haven't been checking wiki threads in a while and so missed all of this conversation until now.

Betty, I'm glad that you made it through the snow and ice safely. That is normal at this time of the year here in Eastern Ontario and so we have loads of ploughs, sand and salt trucks and we all have boots that keep us upright most of the time. We get a heck of a lot of ice and so boots, pantlegs, cars, etc. end up white with salt spray. I can't imagine trying to get around without all of the equipment out on the roads. And, you really need the right boots for ice and snow.

Alicia, I'm glad that you are enjoying the soup.🍲 One hint that might interest you is that I almost always pretty much fill a large stock pot when making soup. Then I fill my smallest stock pot from the big pot and that goes in the fridge. The rest goes into the freezer. I have a collection of plastic containers that hold about a quart and are slightly wider at the top than at the bottom. If I run out of containers then I pull out some from the freezer, pour hot water over the bottoms of the containers until the soup pops out and then put the frozen soup into ziploc freezer bags and the fresh soup into the containers. Then they all go back into the freezer.

Aside from the fact that there are so many delicious soups out there, I love that they are hot, soothing, and that the ones I make are complete meals in one pot. By always having several containers downstairs in the freezer, I always have a complete meal ready for me after just heating it up on the stove. So I don't have to cook if I don't feel like it. I do love soup! 🍲

It sounds like I'll have to add some more soup recipes to my blog! My soup recipes will always have some sort of meat because I don't do well with even gluten-free grains too often, am allergic to soy and can't handle too many legumes too often (thankfully, my one exception is lentils). So I would not be able to get enough protein as a vegetarian. Someone else will have to provide those recipes. Most of the soups that I make have a beef or pork base.🍲