Irish Potato Soup

Irish Potato Soup
Irish cooks wasted nothing, especially the water used to boil vegetables or, if they were lucky, a chicken or shank of ham. This stock formed the vitamin-rich basis of Irish potato soup, a standard in peasant cottages. It might be served with another standard, potato bread.
Ingredients
6 medium potatoes
2 medium onions
1 tablespoon butter
2 pints vegetable stock
1/2 pint milk
1 teaspoon cornmeal (or flour)
salt and pepper
parsley
Cooking Instructions
  1. Peel and dice potatoes.
  2. Chop onions.
  3. Melt butter in a heavy, covered pot.
  4. Add potatoes and onions.
  5. Cook potatoes and onions until soft (do not brown).
  6. Add stock.
  7. Bring to boil and then reduce heat; simmer until the vegetables are soft (stir
      constantly).
  8. Remove from heat and put through a sieve (or food processor/blender in modern
      times*).
  9. Return to pot and reheat.
10. Mix cornmeal (or flour) and milk; stir gradually into soup until the desired consistency
      is reached (can skip this step, if desired).
11. Add salt and pepper to taste.
12. Garnish with parsley.

*Do not put hot soup into a food processor or blender. It might explode! Allow the mixture to cool first.

To New Orleans and back!

To my dedicated readers sorry for the delay I will be posting again soon! I was on vacation in the wild city of New Orleans! A big shout out to The Ocult Shop in the french quarter you guys are the best!

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Paper Chains!

Here is a clever way to spice up your children's holiday crafts have them cut up strips of paper for a paper chain color all dependent on the holiday get some paints an have them paint patterns on one color of the strips, and a different pattern on the other color strips wait for the paint to dry and staple to together to make your paper chain. 

Send pictures of what you make! :)

Happy (Day after) Halloween

Its that great day when you wake up those drowsy youngin's and ship them off to school their lunch boxes packed with smuggled Halloween candy! Yep its the day after Halloween that fun day enjoy the 24/7 sugar highs that those little ones are going to have!

Camera

So I cant find my camera to take pictures of my crafts to post on here so I'm going to have my friend come over and take the pictures for me her camera is nice anyways. Sorry about the delay in posting!

Halloween bash

More pictures from the Halloween bash!

Fogging witches brew!

Fogging Witches Brew

(Smoking Punch)

This is a very easy creative drink recipe to use in your all hollow eve's parties. All you need is...

(Per batch)

1 packet of orange drink mix

1 packet of purple (grape) drink mix

3 quarts of water

1 litter of ginger ale 

1 cup of sugar

Several large hunks of dry ice

This will make a larger, ((I REALLY DO MEAN LARGE!)) bowl of punch the punch will be a dark orange if you want to make it black I would use another half packet of of purple (grape) drink mix. Stir every thing but the dry ice together in a bowl wait until the guests start arriving then slowly start adding the dry ice into the punch be careful when serving the punch not to get any dry ice in the cups unless it is liquid. Dry ice as a solid is very bad to ingest dry ice as a liquid is okay to ingest. Watch the kids be in awe and amazement at your drinkable bubbling good tasting potion! 

Halloween bash!

So I went over to my friends house to help with a Halloween party they where having and I was amazed by how awesome every thing turned out. I have some pictures and food ideas I shall be posting on here I hope it helps with your own Halloween bashes!

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I guess Christmas has come early this year! I went to Hobby Lobby in search of mum flowers for one of my mums and was shocked to see it decked out in Christmas decor. So I went nuts with buying stuff for Christmas, it was 40% off for early buyers it made me very happy. The new crafts I will be posting will be Christmas based while, the recipies will be thanksgiving based. I still might do thanksgiving crafts but more so Christmas.

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