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Pre 10yr wedding anniversary dinner with wife at the local long time steak place. NY strip, French onion soup, and a sweet potato.

Browsing seed catalogs and dreaming of the garden

Instigator. Lol

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Those are great memories of your traditions. The citrus thing is because it was shipped north by train in the early winter. My grandparents always bought it by the case

Bob's Red Mill potato flakes...perfect in a pinch. The wife wanted some sourdough bread, so I chose a potato flake starter. Miscommunication wife the wife, she ordered way too much, so we are stocked. I am a fan of this product

French onion soup

16 pints of beef vegetable soup, with half the broth remaining yet. French onion soup tomorrow. These electric pressure canners are the bomb.

The beef vegetable soup is outstanding. The roasted bone broth, simmered for 36 hours in a big roaster is sooooo creamy to the mouth feel. Before eating, I added some heated previously canned white potatoes. 😋

Not sure where I got my recipe. Love my home canned mushrooms. So easy and convenient as I have posted here before! 😀 All are similar to this one https://www.healthycanning.com/canning-mushrooms#Canning_mushrooms

Wife is slated for more surgery in January, so she is insistent on putting up soups and ready to eat meals now, see my post in the canning thread.

The soup-a-rama has begun. Beef bones roasted, in the slow cooker to render the bone broth. I also bought frozen chicken backs for round two. 6 pounds of stew meat bought. Frozen vegetables were on sale, so variations of beef or chicken soups are coming soon 6 pounds of ground round in...

Other memories... Christmas Eve - Church had candlelight service that we would attend, beautiful memory. Afterwards, we would drive around viewing home displays in town. Would get home and have mom's homemade pizza and Pepsi (still sold in bottles). In bed by 11 or so. Still enjoy driving...