"Eat it up,
Wear it out,
Make it do,
Or go without."
~A Pioneer Sampler, by Barbara Greenwood~

Pioneer Woman at Heart

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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Random Bits

 



(A Year of Positive Thinking, by Cundie Spiegel)


Picked this in the rain.  So thankful for the harvest.




I restocked our homemade condensed mushroom soup.  It is so good, it is so worth the time to make it and freeze it for quick access while cooking.  It's just shallots, fresh mushrooms, butter, a bit of flour, milk and vegetable broth, a bit of black pepper (organic/non-gmo ingredients) and that's it.  I always salt everything while cooking, so I do not add salt.  So good.  I would have had 5 "cans" in the freezer, but I ran out of shallots.


Current library loot.  I am so far behind on reading these, and/or simply looking for what I am looking for, that it's crazy.  I have been doing "stuff" and rather busy, despite rainy days.

Random Bits  ©  May 2025 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart

4 comments:

🌻 Debby 🌻 said...

The mushroom soup looks delicious. I bet it totally improves the flavor in recipes calling for canned cream of mushroom soup.

Beautiful asparagus. I have always thought they were peculiar looking vegetable as a child and wouldn’t touch them. Now I can see them in a more “grown up” way.

Betsy said...

I know I could make my own, but I use a LOT of canned mushroom soup. Tonight we had chicken in the crockpot with the soup, dried onions, garlic, salt and pepper. It was really good. I had made a pea salad a couple of days ago that we've been eating every night and finished tonight. A perfect warm day meal.
Blessings and hugs,
Betsy

Pioneer Woman at Heart said...

Debby @ My Shasta Home, I don't even think my Mom cooked asparagus for us growing up . Somehow I fell in love with vegetables when I grew my first garden. I do learn about new vegetables even so, like rutabagas (tried those a few years back and learn to freeze them).

Pioneer Woman at Heart said...

Betsy, yes, mushroom soup can make a lot of recipes and meals for sure. Pea salad on hot days is a nice side salad too.