Feb 5th 2025

 Happy middle of winter.  It's minus 15 today.  We returned from Mexico on Saturday night.  It was a great trip with the girls.  Since we got home I've been craving homemade meals.  Especially soup. I did a big grocery order on Sunday.  I had a few recipes in mind. I bought frozen spinach in balls for the first time.  I made a new recipe sausage,  potatoes white kidney beans and spinach soup.  It was so good. The sausage was a bit spicy so the soup had a kick. I made a pot for the Hough's and a pot for us. 

https://thecozyapron.com/sausage-soup/#recipe-bookmark

 Gary had a bad cold so I also made him chicken noodles soup with my famous Mr Noodles. 

Tuesday I made spaghetti sauce and a lasagna for the freezer.  I pulled some homemade applesauce muffins out of the freezer and made applesauce muffins for the kids. They loved them.  I also made chocolate chip cookies and ate them all. Just kidding,  I froze half.

Today I made beef vegetable soup to share with the houghs. Andrew said they loved my sausage spinach soup so I will send this soup over too.

I also made a freezer soup , Dump Taco Soup for them to cook in the crockpot a different day. 

I also made a canned peaches cake from allrecipes.com  it didn't turn out great.  I think it needs more flour.  I'm enjoying experimenting with my ingredients from the cupboard and freezer like frozen tomatoes and ham broth.

Tomorrow I plan on making potatoes soup with more frozen ham broth and a ham steak.