Maxwell 20: Fun just dies

[samurai_sarah]

More Maxwell:

 

[SassyPants]

Wonder if Steve chose veggie soup lunch as a day to fast?

[anjulibai]

I feel like if you are making vegetable soup, the focus should be on vegetables, not meat. 

[Four is Enough]

My mother always made vegetable soup with veggies.... and a big chunk of leftover beef roast. Yum!

[Ivycoveredtower]

that soup just sounds gross. 

[johnhugh]

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Shelia says:

April 4, 2018 at 4:29 am

Would it be possible to make it without the ground beef too?

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Sarah Maxwell says:

April 4, 2018 at 8:07 am

You could. You’d want to add more veggies, though, without having meat.

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[Sister Mozz]

That soup sounds disgusting on multiple levels. Two kinds of meat (if little smokies count as meat ), plus roast pork broth? Frozen tomato sauce?!?!

[Ivycoveredtower]

6 minutes ago, Sister Mozz said:

That soup sounds disgusting on multiple levels. Two kinds of meat (if little smokies count as meat ), plus roast pork broth? Frozen tomato sauce?!?!

well to be fair they didn't end up putting the tomato sauce in but still. 

[Eternalbluepearl]

It's not a recipe just...."it was a good amount for the meat we were using..." Okay. 

[Ivycoveredtower]

Terri is just useless isn't she. couldn't even prepare a pot of soup by herself. No she had to do it a whole day ahead because her helpers would be busy the next day. 

[catlady]

it's like they're not just bored with the blog, they're bored with themselves, but they're so sheltered and isolated that they don't know how dull they really are.  

let's take bets on Friday's post--i'll go with a tip on straightening up the already-neat living room:  look around the room and decide what things need to go where.  then put them there.  finish up by vacuuming.

[Ivycoveredtower]

4 minutes ago, catlady said:

it's like they're not just bored with the blog, they're bored with themselves, but they're so sheltered and isolated that they don't know how dull they really are.  

let's take bets on Friday's post--i'll go with a tip on straightening up the already-neat living room:  look around the room and decide what things need to go where.  then put them there.  finish up by vacuuming.

Friday's post. Sarah's useless writing tips. 

[socalrules]

I am not a fan of ground beef in soup. I think it’s a texture thing for me. I would Have mixed the ground beef With sauce and made a pasta dish. i want to know the size of the bag of veggies. Even Big bag seems small for so many people. I don’t see the point of so few smokies. Hell, that’s like my snack while I cook dinner. 

I make boneless chicken breast veggie soup all the time because i always have the ingredients on hand and it gives me days of leftovers for lunch and dinner. I always use at least four regular sized bags of frozen veggies, a can or two of black or kidney beans and a can of corn if I don’t have a frozen bag of it. (Corn is my jam). If I am lucky, I will have fresh zucchini to include along with onion and celery. I don’t keep many fresh veggies on hand because, with my schedule, I end up throwing too much spoiled food out. I use a chicken bouillon instead of canned chicken broth as it always makes me sick for some reason when I make soup. My soup ends up stocked with goodness and it’s all for one person. 

[tabitha2]

There’s a restaurant down here that makes a mean vegetable soup with ground beef. Other than that all the Veggie soups I have ever had were just Veggie. 

[IReallyAmHopewell]

1 hour ago, Eternalbluepearl said:

It's not a recipe just...."it was a good amount for the meat we were using..." Okay. 

I'll give her pass here. Lots and lots and lots of Midwesterners of any political/religious view think it is not a meal without a big serving of meat.

 

Now back to snarking on the Maxwells

[scoutsadie]

My love of garlic salt is likely one of the very few things I have in common with these folks. (Besides a need for oxygen, water and sleep...)

[Ozlsn]

"I not only kissed his hands, I kissed his legs. All three of them!."

@nomoxian you are so good to minister to your poor disabled tri-legged husband! The Lord will surely bless you!

(Yes this should probably move to Jill's Fundie Porn thread but I'm too busy laughing.)

[anniebgood]

There's a place down the street from us that has the best vegetable soup with ground beef. They use beans, carrots, onions, celery,tomatoes and cabbage. OMG, it's flavorful and I could have some every day. I would make it here but the boys would turn up their noses. I suppose I could make a couple of quarts and freeze it and pull it out when I have a craving. They use salt and pepper, real garlic, and I think some smoked paprika as seasonings. All I know is that it's yummy and filling. 

I wonder if Terri is like my aunt who made coffee that no one wanted to drink. She barely rinsed the grounds with hot water. Awful stuff. Could account for why the childults have a coffee store fetish. Has the woman never gotten a good recipe book and followed it? Sheesh. While we were cleaning out my moms house we found my stepdad's first wife's The American Woman's Cookbook ©1952. With such stunning recipes as liver casserole, Spanish kidneys, pickled pigs feet and other glorious mid-century meals. I'm taking it to the stepsister in Vegas, since it's her mom's cookbook. My mom had Betty Crocker, The Good Housekeeping Illustrated and The Big Doubleday Cookbook. 

Now I'm going to go read cookbooks.

[theologygeek]

Rachel Ray is back with her recipes again.  That ground beef was fresh, frozen, thawed, cooked, frozen, cooked, refrigerated for the next day's meal.  It's a miracle these people aren't always sick. 

Children in puddles...Puddle jumping isn't an activity one organizes for the normal child.  The normal child jumps in puddles, and their parent tells them to stop doing that.  Who bathed those dirty kids and washed their clothes?  Makes more work for the parent.  Those poor things can't go to the beach or swim in a pool, so they are stuck with jumping in dirty puddles.

I thought Sarah was dying.  The end is near...I hope she did things her way.  Cue Frank Sinatra. 

[Granwych]

9 hours ago, SassyPants said:

Wonder if Steve chose veggie soup lunch as a day to fast?

So long as there was nothing but broth in each bowl, maybe he'd go for that.  Maybe add two oyster crackers.

2 hours ago, anniebgood said:

Now I'm going to go read cookbooks.

I love to read and sometimes collect cookbooks.  Luckily there's a used bookstore a few towns over. 

9 hours ago, anjulibai said:

I feel like if you are making vegetable soup, the focus should be on vegetables, not meat. 

I used to make a vegetarian curry pea soup.  One day, I just tossed in some salt pork, and that really ramped up the flavor. 

[theologygeek]

21 minutes ago, Granwych said:

I used to make a vegetarian curry pea soup.  One day, I just tossed in some salt pork, and that really ramped up the flavor. 

I'm the cheerleader for salt pork fat.  lol  It's the only way I'll make rice and beans or pasta fagioli 

[Ivycoveredtower]

have they ever discussed why Lunch is their biggest meal of the day, is it because they sometimes have their married kids and grandkids dropping in or is it another reason?

[Granwych]

4 minutes ago, Ivycoveredtower said:

have they ever discussed why Lunch is their biggest meal of the day, is it because they sometimes have their married kids and grandkids dropping in or is it another reason?

I think it's so they're still digesting at suppertime and can get by with eating less?

[danvillebelle]

I read cookbooks like most people read novels.  Just scored some great Southern Living ones from the 70's today at my favorite thrift - 25 cents each.  

That soup sounds gross and bland.  Where's the garlic?  Where are the spices?  WHERE IS THE FLAVOR?

I guess flavor is a sin.

[Lgirlrocks]

10 hours ago, Ivycoveredtower said:

Terri is just useless isn't she. couldn't even prepare a pot of soup by herself. No she had to do it a whole day ahead because her helpers would be busy the next day. 

I don’t understand that. I get that she is useless but why? Her kids are grown, and so is she. Why can’t she do things for herself? Why Do her daughters have to help her? Is it really that hard for her to do something by her self?