SOUP AND SANDWICHES

A very healthy and satisfying meal is soup and sandwiches.  These dishes are what we are having on Fridays for the coming months.  Sandwiches with the crust on and also could be open sandwiches made out of bread rolls. Yes, to lead easy living during that time is what we want.  No fancy food, no take away and no rich food.  As for the soup, prepare and cook a big pot of soups and keep in the freezer is the way to go.

Open sandwiches, of freshly baked bread rolls.

Served with Cheese and Strawberry also Meat and Mayonnaise Topping

A sample of Open Sandwiches from an older post.

No, fancy sandwiches for Fridays, only nutritious sandwiches

These pretty sandwiches are finger sandwiches, often I prepare for the family when the children and grandchildren come home for a visit.  They are dainty and delicate.

Delicate and delicious club sandwiches

Delicious and Practical.

Toasted bread with any filling, makes an excellent hot sandwich.

Slice homebaked bread, add any topping should do and suffice for our dinner to go with a bowl of soup.

Fresh, Homebaked Bread

Soup
Cooking a big pot of soup to freeze is an excellent idea,  I do a lot of those.  Lentil soup is the family favourite, delicious!   If you need to cook the soup my way, today I retrieved the recipe from my older post for you.

The Recipe

Lentil Soup

There are many lentil soup recipes, but here I am sharing my delicious green lentil soup.  This soup is based on other recipes; I pinched from here and there to create this dish.

Susy's Green Lentil Soup

Ingredients

1 lt chicken stock or water for vegetarians

1 lt water

275 g dried green lentils

Herbs and Spices:

1 large onion, chopped

5 garlic, crushed

2 bay leaves

1teaspoon turmeric

½ teaspoon cumin

½ teaspoon white pepper

3 tablespoons olive oil to saute

Vegetables

2 cups grated or chopped carrots

1cup celery, chopped

2 potatoes, diced and chopped 2 medium-large red tomatoes

Salt to taste

Fresh greens and herbs

spinach-swiss chard and parsley, chives etc

Add in sherry-2 caps full.

 

Optional

Add in chopped bacon or ham during cooking.

Garnish

Chorizo or any sausages, pan fried

Extra olive oil to serve

Method

Sauté the onion, garlic until fragrant, add in all the spices, and cook for a few seconds

Add the green lentil, toss and stir, until the lentil is coated with the herbs and spices.

Add in the stock and water, bring to a boil, cook for 5 minutes

Put all the chopped vegetables, bring to simmer and cook for 10 minutes.

Reduce the heat, cover the pot and cook for one hour or more to get a delicious flavour.

Cooking The Soup

Keeping the soup in a gentle simmer for over an hour, to have an intense and delicious flavour.

Green Lentil Soup with Leafy Vegetables

Soup is comfort food, everyone loves soups, especially in the cold weather, as they said there is nothing like to have a bowl of soup that warms the soul.  Well just maybe the green lentil soup is for you.  Give the recipe a go, you may like it.

Note: you could add hock or bacon for flavour, this way the chicken stock can be omitted if you wish.  Also, disregard the stock for mixed vegetable soup use water instead.

Love to cook lentil soup on cold days, but right now, cauliflower, celery are in season, so these vegetables most probably will be in our menu for these coming months. Indeed, we love those vegetables and their deliciousness.

Popular Soup For Us

Baso-Meatballs soup in clear broth

Noodle soup

Pumpkin Soup

Leek and Potato Soup

Spinach and Mung Bean
Chicken and Corn Soup

Basically, the soups are prepared and cooked without any recipe in my kitchen, but as you know, cooking soup is so easy.

Comfort food is for us at any time, and it is friendly and enjoyable.  

Celebrate Family today.  To our girls have a pleasant weekend, thinking of you, thank you for your love. We are Blessed.

Appreciate, Celebrate, Family and Friends.!  What Would You Do, What Would You Be Without Them?

On a rainy day, July 2018

Susy

PRECIOUS.

Beautiful Food

It Makes Us Happy

It Takes Time To Prepare

It Needs Perfection and Details

Precious Food, Glorious Food

The day when I was filling rich, a decadent sourdough crown was born.

It was made with lavish ingredients and no holding back, it's shameless. But it's so precious and a delight for the gods.

The Sourdough Crown

It has a soft crumb, sweet and nutty, the crust is tender but chewy, just the way I like it.

From an old file.

The journey of baking sourdough has gone so far for me, and positively only gets better.  However, it has been a long rest of baking,  but it is, no cooking, no more.  Only time will tell.

It was good that the making of this Crown was documented, how good it is to look back, and I am pleased to share the pictures with all of you; unfortunately, no recipe was noted. 

Good Words
Regard yourself as very precious and treat others as precious and priceless.

Winter, 2018
Susy

FAMILY (updated)

When the children come home for a visit with their family, the garden is alive, beautiful food is prepared, they love home cooking.

Make the back garden clean and safe to play for the children.

Children, Grandchildren, and Pet

Susan and her husband, Tris.  Alfie, Susan's Dog, Tristan loves looking after Alfie too.

Jane and Elanora, Edwin and family, Netherlands, 2018

Milo, Park Lane

Children Visit

With Nana in the Backyard Garden.  Morning Tea with Pop.

Mery Rose First Communion.

Melanie's family (her husband-Lance took the photo)

The grandchildren: Mary Rose, Thomas, Henry and Lily

School Holiday.

They love to play in the backyard.

Gardening

 Working and enjoying the garden together, often we send the pictures to the children, telling that we are right and well.

School Time

In Queensland, the four grandchildren are ready to go to school.  

They have grown bigger since I saw them in October 2017

Favourite Food

 They love roasts and rice dishes

They love sweets, from scones, meringue to fruit sponges.

Happy Family Stays Together

Travelling

Netherlands, 2007, Jane's Wedding

Site Seeing in Duesseldorf 

In the train, it was heading to Germany from the Netherlands

On the Plane from Australia to the Netherlands

Trying the wedding dress, we all went to Duesseldorf Germany.

Around Eindhoven

Jane's new Family
In Uden

Fun, around Zeeland

To get to know Jane's new family in 2007, it was good, everyone accommodates everyone, it was easy and impressive.

Venlo Garden Show

In 2012, we visited the garden show in Venlo.  This particular garden show is every ten years. Luckily we were in Europa at the time.  Spent time with Jane's family and her first baby Milo Issac.
Beautiful display garden designs, colourful flowers, flower arrangements, new flowers and plants and amazingly, we were blessed to meet friendly people.  Travelling not only seeing different places but learning about anything else, especially, never ever doubts about the kindness of people. Truthful and faithful ones are found everywhere.  The world is a big happy family.

Heading to the Garden Show in Venlo, and It was good to be there.

People had to ride the Gondola to see the large garden show.

The garden show was awe-inspiring, so good, so big, very large, so informative.

It was a warm summer, almost too hot for baby Milo, he had a big day; also we had, thank you all.

Together and Better

Australia, in 2010

Pick Nick with the Family

Relaxed time outdoors with family is often the best time.

Garden, Potted Plants, and Cut Flowers are There are for the Family. 

Potted Cymbidium Flowers at It best, with 16 -Sixteen Stems of Flowers

Together Everywhere
Vienna

Kinderdejk - In The Netherlands

Christmas Time

The family comes home.  Celebration, Flowers, Fruits and Food.

Enjoying their company and Grandchildren

The grandchildren were smaller, the joy with them was so special.  No More Christmas Feasts at our home after my sixtieth birthday, the children took over generously.
Christmas with the children is always grand and generous, with a beautiful feast but very practical, it's the way to go for a family with small children.

Christmas Lunch at Melanie 

 More family events, Christmas pictures are coming soon.

To Be Continued

A beautiful quote:

" I am in charge of how I feel, and today I am choosing happiness."

With Love and Best Wishes, Susan, Dear Girl.

Happy Birthday, Have a Wonderful Day Today,  and God Bless.  Mum xoxo

Mini Family Album

Susy