Life on My Own Terms

I fancy myself to be a decent cook. I’ve had a lot of fun these last few weeks expanding my [cooking] horizons.

Tonight was soup night. I started out the evening by making the West African Vegetarian Soup from Cooking Light.

It is incredibly easy and husband loved it.

While that was cooking, I decided to use one of the chook carcasses from last weekend to make chicken stock – in the crock pot. This is only significant because our crock pot (cp) has only been used a few times since we got married.

When the vegetarian soup was done, I filled containers for the freezer and we ate some for dinner as well.

The next event was to use the same large soup pot to make stock using the other chook carcass. I spent the next few hours skimming the scum off the simmering mixture.

The recipes I consulted suggested that the mixture should simmer for over four hours. I was impatient and decided that three was enough. I strained everything and put it in the fridge. We left the cp for the evening and I pushed it back so the boys couldn’t get to it.

Speaking of the boys, my evening activities were of great interest.

They patiently watched me from just outside the kitchen. Adorable.

The only part I didn’t like was the clean-up.

But it wasn’t too bad.

As soon as my photo hosting service is back up, I’ll post pictures of the evening.