Dad’s Hamburger Soup
International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day is coming up and I’ll be posting and linking to recipes from now until then. Here’s the first.
IEATAPETA (March 15) Recipe 1
This soup is easy to make with what’s on-hand in the freezer and pantry and comes together fairly quickly.
Dad’s Hamburger Soup
One bag of frozen mixed vegetables
One can of diced tomatoes with juices
One or two cans of whichever type of beans you like, cannellini, navy, pinto, red, black, etc.
One medium onion, diced
Two to three cloves of garlic, minced
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
salt
pepper
One one-liter box of beef broth or stock
One to two pounds of ground beef.
Mix the ground beef with about 1/2 a cup of the broth. **see note
Cook the onion in olive oil in a large pot until translucent, then add the garlic.
Add the beef and brown it, breaking up any clumps. Season with salt and pepper. Add Worcestershire sauce.
Add the rest of the broth, the frozen vegetables, and the cans of tomatoes and beans. You can rinse the beans or dump them in with the aguafaba.
Macaroni or other small pasta noodles (or rice) could also be added to bulk up the soup if you want to just add more broth or stock.
Feel free to season with any other seasonings you like. It’s even better the next day!
**note
Adding liquid (water or stock or broth) to the ground meat allows it to be smaller clumps when you brown it so it’s not in big chunks. I’ll use water, but if it’s a soup where I’m already using stock or broth, I’ll use that instead.
2025
I don’t have resolutions for 2025.
I’ve decided to have intentions.
I intend to do more drawing and painting in 2025.
I intend to do more writing in 2025.
I intend to do more crafting in 2025.
I intend to do more baking in 2025.
I intend to be happy in what I’m doing in 2025.
I can work up to doing more. I can back off if it gets too much.
I can try to document what I’m doing as well.
Those are my intentions as of now for 2025.
Merry Christmas Everyone
What Christmas is all about
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Early on a beautiful Sunday morning 83 years ago, the world changed.
At 7:55 a.m local. on December 7, 1941, the attack begins.
Pearl Harbor Attack
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor to remove what it saw as a threat to the empire’s southern expansion. The Pearl Harbor attack hurt us badly, but it also hardened our resolve and brought us fully into WWII.
Snopes has some photos that were purported to be found in an old Brownie camera years after the attack. The story was untrue, but the photos are archival and genuine.
The U.S. Navy has a Pearl Harbor site with more photos.
Chris at A Large Regular has linked to this National Geographic Pearl Harbor site in the past. It has a multimedia timeline, survivor stories, a kid’s section, and more.
Someday we’ll get to see the Arizona Memorial.
Shark Clean & Empty Cordless Vacuum
Our old cordless vacuum with integrated handheld reached the end of its life 5-1/2 years after we bought it so it’s time for a new one.
Amazon Cyber Monday has a great deal on the Shark Clean & Empty Cordless Vacuum and we’ve had great luck with the Shark family of appliances so we’ve ordered one and we’ll receive it on Friday!
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Veterans’ Day 2024
Armistice Day, Veterans’ Day, Remembrance Day
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month…
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Written by Lt-Colonel John McRae (1915)
Happy 85th Mom
Mom would have been 85 today. She died 11 days before her 79th, six years ago this past September 19th. Dad preceded her in 2002.
Since then two of her sisters have joined her and one of Dad’s sisters. They’re all leaving us.
But they all live on in our hearts and memories.
So happy birthday Mom!
Those About to Die
We started watching Those About to Die on Peacock. All ten episodes have dropped. It stars Anthony Hopkins as the Emperor Vespasian. As yet, we’ve only watched the first episode but we’ll be continuing on.
One line, in particular, struck me and I thought it needed some wider distribution.
Hopkins was speaking to one son about the other son. The son asked if he was going to punish the other and Hopkins said, “Praise in public, discipline in private.”
This reminded me of a situation when I was working at a University bookstore and the manager came up to me in the middle of the floor in front of both co-workers and customers and yelled at me about something. I asked her to follow me to the back room and said, “First of all, NEVER speak to anyone like that in front of co-workers or especially customers again. And secondly, I didn’t do what you just yelled at me about.” She was suddenly extremely apologetic. I think more about what she’d done out on the floor than accusing me of something I hadn’t done.
But these are words to live by…
20th Blogiversary
It was on Monday, but I was busy at DragonCon and frankly, it slipped my mind.
Twenty years.
Deadpool and Wolverine
We saw Deadpool and Wolverine today. Totally irreverent, tons of foul language, pretty good story, lots of cameos and easter eggs, the audience was laughing out loud. A good time was had by all.
