MAGPIE'S MUMBLINGS

A blog about my interests, which include fabric landscapes and various and assorted other artsy pursuits and sometimes known to contain mumblings of a random nature.

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

It's a start

 My sewing room looks like a cyclone hit it, but out of the mess I've managed to make a start on the new landscape....




And....Resident Chef made a most excellent soup last night for our supper.  This recipe is an original and I think he outdid himself!


RESIDENT CHEF's ASIAN PORK SOUP
3 T. sesame oil             
2 lb. pork, cut in bite size pieces
2 onions, diced
2 carrots – thin sliced
1 potato, diced
2 stalks celery, thinly sliced
2 cans sliced mushrooms
2 litres chicken stock
½ c. dried seaweed
1 tsp. ginger
1 ½ tsp. garlic powder
¼ tsp. Asian Chili Paste
¼ c. soy sauce
Noodles – cooked

     Saute pork in sesame oil til no
longer pink.  Add onions, carrots, potatoes,
celery & mushrooms and sauté approx. 5 mins
stirring frequently.  Add chicken stock. Seaweed,
ginger, garlic powder & chili paste.  Bring to boil
and add noodles & soy sauce.  Return to simmer.


- There's an interesting discussion HERE about old photos and the collection thereof.  The comments are quite interesting and well worth a read.

- HERE's another of my 'awwwww' things.

- THIS looks like  a really nice bag pattern.

- And another 'awwwww' thing HERE.

Today's quote is from Neil Gaiman..."May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.  I hope you read some good books and kiss someone who thinks you are wonderful, and don't forget to make some art - write or draw or build or sing or live only as you can.  And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself"


20 comments:

  1. Your "start" is already amazing--love the snow flecked side of the barn and the skies...nice work...hugs, Julierose

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    1. Thank you! I'm having fun with this one.

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  2. Sounds as if resident chef really threw everything in there! I expect you have enough to go back to, as well. Good stuff.

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    1. I suppose it could more commonly be called 'Kitchen Sink Soup' because he used up odds and sods. And yes, there's enough for several more meals.

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  3. Wow! What a great start. The only way you can play in the snow and not be cold.

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    1. This is the best kind of snow as far as I'm concerned!

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  4. Nice start. The photo website is interesting.

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    1. The landscape is at the point where it more or less changes every hour.
      I went through all our photos before we moved here and now I just keep ones that I know might be worth looking at over the years....people, not pictures of flowers and Christmas trees!

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  5. Great start on the landscape and the soup sounds amazing.

    God bless.

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    1. The landscape is coming along nicely. And yes, the soup IS amazing!

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  6. love that bag pattern, useful size.

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    1. Glad you found something in the links that you like!

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  7. That's a great start. Sometimes you have to make a mess to make beautiful things!
    Thanks for sharing the recipe, I think the guys would like that one.

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    1. I'm a pro at making messes!
      Let me know what you think if you make the soup.

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  8. Loving your new 'start' Mary Anne. Really like that you have used fabric with the old wooden tiles that used to be used for building/insulating chalets in the mountains. They use them in Switzerland too and it reminds me of the chalets there. Hugs Christine xx

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    1. Thanks Christine. I think the original building in the photos is somewhere in the Prairie provinces in Canada so perhaps the builder took inspiration from the Swiss.

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  9. I love the art piece so far!

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  10. A messy sewing room is a sign of a busy mind that's been working. The soup sounds delicious. Seaweed is something we rarely find around here, if at all.

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    1. Our #2 daughter-in-love is Taiwanese and she and our son gifted Resident Chef with a big box of Asian cooking essentials and seaweed was one of the ingredients. We love Asian food (most of it anyway) so it inspired this soup.

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