Loving the Cold Weather

I have been joking with Carrie from CA about the weather.  She commented on her blog that it was cold there - 43 degrees.  It has been in the teens here in PA and I am loving the cold weather.  We even had a small amount of snow this past weekend...enough to make me hope for more...but after our youngest son gets home from college on Thrusday!

Winter makes me want to eat soup!  Every weekend I make a pot of soup and eat it all week for lunch plus one night for dinner with a loaf of good bread.  My hubby likes soup as well but can't eat it all week long like me.  I could literally eat soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner - EVERY DAY!  Any leftovers get frozen and handed off to my father-in-law who I always send home with tons of leftovers so he doesn't have to cook just for him.

I found a listing of tons of soup recipes on this blog.  I have copied lots of the recipes to add to my favorites.  Most of the time I don't use recipes - just wing it with whatever ingredients I am hungry for.  Today's lunch is Pasta E Fagioli-  a recipe based on a copycat of the Olive Garden's soup.  I love their salad as well and found a copycat recipe for their salad dressing ...may have to try that out as well.

Our addition is now under roof and has all the windows in - all 11! The electrician was in to start yesterday and will finish today - with lights and heating.  The french door gets delivered today as well...so maybe Mark - our contractor - can work in a heated room tomorrow.  Drywall should be almost done by the end of the week!  See my UGLY garage in the background!  That gets sided this spring - come hell or high water!

Comments

[Carrie K]

Oh yum, I LOVE soup. I could eat it almost every meal too.

The addition is looking good! Hmm. Maybe not that cold. It got down to 38 degrees as the low last night. In the teens??? BRRRRRR.

[Elspeth]

Hey, I live just South of Carrie, and it was 41 here today ;)

[Elspeth]

Hey, I live just South of Carrie, and it was 41 here today ;)

[Elspeth]

Hey, I live just South of Carrie, and it was 41 here today ;)