HAPPINGS AROUND THE COTTAGE

On Mondays I like to have soup during the winter months. I usually cook some type of roast for Sunday dinner so there is usually something leftover for soup on Monday, this week it was from a pork roast. My mother-in-law taught me how to make this soup. I call it saurkraut soup because I can't spell the German name for it. I like to serve potato rolls with it but it was my first day babysitting Eleanor so I didn't try to make them and served biscuits instead. (I have changed it slightly to suit my needs)

6-8 cups chicken stock
4-6 potatoes cubed

left over pork 1-2 cups cubed

1 -2 cups sauerkraut well rinsed or your soup will be sour

Put the first 3 ingredients together and simmer until the potatoes are cooked

add the sauerkraut and warm through.

( I usually use some of the drippings left from the roast to give the broth more flavor)

If you like you can use celery, onion a little carrot to make a soup stock added to the chicken stock you use. What ever you like to flavor it the way you like but I swear it is as good as chicken soup for what ails you.. might even cure the common cold. Give it a try!!

My homemade biscuits but this time I added an egg to make them extra rich

2 cups flour

1/4 cup sugar

4 teaspoons baking powder

3/4 teaspoon sea salt

1/4 - 1/3 cup shortening

1/4 cup milk

1 egg

mix the dry ingredients first add shortening then wet ingredients, roll out on floured board cut into shapes and Bake at 450 degrees for 10 -12 minutes

My first day with Ellie went very well. She is learning to take a bottle


Hey grandma I can't sit up yet


Grandmas house was so much fun I fell asleep just before daddy came to pick me up