Today, we were held late at Church. As usual I taught the pre-k & K religious education class for the first service. Or, at least I was supposed to. There was a break down in communication between the rosters of teachers and I wound up not having an assistant, which by guide lines I have to have since teachers aren't allowed to be by themselves. So, it was thought that we could borrow one of the nursery assistants but instead we joined one of the classes upstairs. One one student attended today so it was no problem incorporating him in with the first & second graders. Besides, although we had lots of fun activities planned about Jesus (we were going to read a nice little book entitled Meeting Jesus and then look at pictures of Jesus as protrayed by different cultures) in the end I think he was happier upstairs helping to cut out papel picado's instead. The older children we cutting these out as decoration for the Church next Sunday for the Day of the Dead service.
Everyone is really looking forward to it, and I'll be doing a unit on that over this week with my kidlets so they know more about this wonderful day when we honor our ancestors. The parishners have been requested to bring pictures of family, friends and even pets that have passed to honor them. However, I'm getting off topic. Although I teach during the first service, I attend the second service and it's at that time when the boys go to their religious education class and the girls go to the nursery. It was because the boys were having so much fun cutting out their papel picado's that we got out of their a bit late and because we walked, it wasn't until 1.30 that we got home. We were all starving of course. Expending all of that energy always begets a big appetite, but there's also something about a beautiful crisp Autumn day that does it as well.
We already had a beautiful braid of hand made bread. One of our parishners also works at a bakery and he brings lots of left over bread every week for anyone that wishes one to take home and as usual I snagged one. Carey had the grand idea of soup but the only canned soups I ever buy are the creamed soups for recipes (cream of mushroom, etc.) because I'm usually too busy to make those on my own. And I don't even buy them that often. However, recently I hit an awesome sale on organic creamed soups so I stocked up. :D I threw a whole bunch of those together, spices and garlic, and a hodge podge of veggies and it was awesome with the thick bread to dunk in it. Deedee helped too (she added lots of milk when she was only supposed to be stirring it :D). But it was so good I thought I'd share it.
Easy Hearty Creamed Soup
- 3 14.5 oz cans of creamed soup (I had one each of chicken, mushroom and celery that I used; these weren't condensced.)
- 14 oz of fresh or frozen cooked vegge (or canned if you must) I grabbed a random bag from the freezer. It had potato chunks, asparagus spears with julienned carrots and zuchinni.
- 1 c of milk (more or less to taste but please don't add a quart, which is what Deedee did)
- Garlic, pepper, herbs etc. to taste
Combine the soup and milk along with your herbs and spices and start it gently heating. Choose your vegge & any other ingredients such as cubed chicken that you might like to add. Cook time depends on whether your veggies are frozen or not. Keep it on a medium heat and don't let it boil. And don't let the 2 year old stir it if you happen to be occupied elsewhere. :D That is, if you don't care what may happen to it. The soups was still good with the excess milk. It certainly went further but it was a bit weak. This is excellent with big chunks of fresh bread to dip in it or serve with croutons on the side. Minus the excess milk, this should feed four adults or a family of six that is comprised of four rambuctious munchkins and two much suffering adults.
 |
