This was good soup!

This recipe comes from the Gooseberry Patch 101 Slow Cooker Recipes cookbook and was called Tami's Taco Soup. I made several changes and am calling it Taco Soup. 

Taco Soup

1 lb ground beef, browned and drained

32 oz carton chicken broth

2 14.5 oz cans diced tomatoes 

1 4.5 oz can chopped green chilies, drained

1 15 oz can white beans, drained (I used navy beans as that is what I had on hand, but any canned white bean would work in my opinion) 

1 15 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed

1 15 oz can yellow hominy, drained

1 15 oz can white hominy, drained

Taco seasoning to taste

1 1 oz package fiesta ranch salad dressing mix

Combine all ingredients in a large stock and cook on medium low heat for 20 minutes or more to combine flavors.

 

Perfect for a gray, damp and cold April day! 

March Wipocalypse Update

I thought I was to share this post the last Saturday of the month, but it's supposed to be the fourth Saturday. Oh well, better late than never! 

I had two new finishes for February. The first is a Mill Hill kit I started February 1st. 

Pattern photo shown above, my completed piece shown below. I will be backing this with felt and attaching the supplied magnet. It is going to a Physicians Assist my mother sees as a thank you for providing great care.  

My second finish is a piece that was kitted and gifted to me in 2013 by my friend Judy. She substituted PTP 36 Ct Opal for the suggested fabric and changed some of the suggested DMC to work with the fabric. 

I had started on this piece a couple years ago and messed up on the vase. I thought I could make it work, but couldn't and put it in time out. I had to frog the entire vase before restarting. I did so and completed the piece late March. 

Jardin Prive

Bouquet de Fleurs

I spent the end of March working on All Creatures Great and Small, which I often mistakenly call All Gods Creatures, by Barbara Ana. Here is where I left off at the end of February. 

And here is where I ended the month;

I continue to struggle with this piece and if it weren't my 2018 baptism piece, it would go to time out! I frogged the bee hive. I'd made a mistake and thought I could live with it, but it nagged me and had to go. I've stitched the bird, owl and two keys on the right side twice. The house should be one row wider. I decided not to add the row as I believed it would look different than all the other rows as added vertically, not horizontally as the other rows were stitched. The house being a row off, threw the motifs off above the house, so they were frogged. I then stitched the border and placed the motifs based on the border rather than the house. 

Three months in and not a third done. I'm afraid I won't get this piece done this year at this pace, so I'll be stitching on it (if I can keep my plans) the entire month of April. 

Happy Stitching!