My World

Here we are in a brand new year, and I have been a bit remiss in posting. But I shall carry onward and forward. Hubby and I both had a 5 day bug that caused us to cancel travel plans for Christmas. This wasn’t necessarily a bad thing since we had the cold blast from hell that not only affected us but the ocean coast area we had planned to visit. It truly would have been a miserable time attempting to explore a new to us small oceanside town during a holiday in 20 degrees temps. So all is good. God watched over us and we are both far past the illness and ready to face the new year.

While it isn’t striking cold now, it is still winter, and that always calls for soups and stews. I popped some bone-in chicken thighs into my favorite stew pot with some salt, pepper, garlic powder, and a special stew season I received for Christmas and water to stew slowly for a couple of hours.

Then I added chopped purple and yellow onions, carrots, red potatoes, Brussel sprouts, and brown rice, barley to the mix to cook until tender.

The last ingredient was plain unsweetened almond milk to give the broth a creamy texture. Added a side of those wonderful whole grain crackers we love so much to complete the meal.

I intentionally made a large pot so we can feast on it for the next couple of days. I’ll expand with a few other ingredients to change it up….. May add drop dumplings tomorrow night.

Bon Appétit!