Wet Wednesday

It was noticeably cooler on Wednesday, even though the sun was out.

I went to Gordon Foods at lunchtime to get some more lump charcoal. I took it home and ate the last of the beef vegetable soup.

At 5:00 PM, I drove home in a thunderstorm that started about five minutes before I left work. It wasn’t that fun to drive in, but it was neat to watch inside at home through the kitchen window. There was a lot of lightning!

I did the Wednesday night wash.

I chopped up celery, onions and my last two carrots and softened them in the Dutch oven. The I added the beef cubes back in (I had set them aside to sweat the veggies). I added in some beef broth and a bit of water. Then I threw in chopped parsley, rosemary and thyme (don’t worry, they’re all gone now, so you won’t have to read about them for a while, lol). I added salt and pepper and turned it to boil.

Then I threw it the bag of Kluski noodles. Yes, the whole bag and, yes, that was a minor mistake. But, in my defense, there were about 8-10 cups of soup broth and I thought half a bag of noodles would just get lost.

I taste-tested it for the final time and just added more ground black pepper. I dished up a bowl and ate dinner.

It was damn good! But, as I said, I think my beef noodle soup turned into beef and noodles with a little broth, lol. What ever you call it, I liked it enough to have seconds. When it cooled, I put it away. I got 3 1/2 four-cup containers of leftovers.

I started watching the hockey game which started here about 9:30 PM (the Wings are in Alberta, Canada, playing the Flames). The trouble is that, even if we do win, I can’t rag on Canada Cathy, because they’ve already kicked our butts two other times in this short season.

I gave up and went to bed at the end of the second period. It was almost midnight and the score was tied.