Squeeky wheels get the grease

2007-10-18


Carol's Potato Dream soup

                                                                  Carol's potato Dream Soup

 
I call it my dream soup because it's so easy to make.

You will need 1 crock pot or slow cooker.
                             Potatoes, the amount will depend on how many you are planning to feed and what size cooker       you are planning to use.  My rule of thumb is 3  potatoes person.

Potatoes
1 medium onion
milk
water
2 large ham hocks
cheese (optional)
salt and pepper
Instant mashed potatoes

Peel and dice the potatoes, rinse and put in crockpot.   Chop onion and add to potatoes.   Add Ham hocks.
I mix half milk and half water, enough to cover the ingredients. Season to taste.  Set timer to low (7 - 8 hours)  If you need it sooner
you can set it to high.  (4 hours)  But on low the flavor cooks in better.

Once the potatoes are done  you can remove the ham  hocks and cut them up, removing the skin and fat.  Adding the meat back to the soup.   You can cut up the ham hocks before you add them and remove the skins and fat if you want to.  But that also takes away some of the flavor.
If some of the liquid had boiled away add milk (or water).   Then slowly mix the instant potatoes into the soup, adding just enough to thicken it to the consistancy you desire.   Now is when you would add the cheese, I use shredded cheddar and I just add about a good handful.  But you can add as much as you want.   Let it cook about 10 minutes more, stirring to make sure the cheese melts.  Shut if off and dig in.  One great thing is it also makes fantastic left overs, because it just gets better each time you warm it up.

Enjoy



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2007-10-10


Don't Give UP

   I give up!  I quit!  I can't do this anymore!  I don't wanna!

     And the list could go on and on.  But they all say the same thing, you have given up on yourself!  You think you have given it your all and you just can't do it.  Well guess what you're wrong!!!!

     Believe me I know the feeling well.  I am 58 years old, disabled and sometimes disgusted with ME.  A year ago I could do what ever I set out to do, but now my "body" seems to like to try and put limitations on me, and I don't like that.  I have thrown in the towel and just gave up many times in the past year but that only makes me feel worse. I've "tried" making money on the Internet and to a lot of well meaning people I have failed at that too.  To others I just didn't try THEIR methods or I just didn't follow THEIR directions and that is why I have failed.  Even my Dr. tells me if I would just try this or that I would feel better.  Well guess what I HAVE tried THIS and THAT, but it didn't work.  So all I was doing was slipping farther and farther into the I QUIT mode of life.

     So I am going to tell you a secret that I finally figured out.  NOT EVERYONE IS A LIKE!!!!  It's that simple.  Before I go on let me tell you right now IN NO WAY am I telling you NOT to listen to your Doctor or completely ignore the advice or help of  others.  Always do what the Dr. says and at least try what others suggest.  I am not talking about medical procedures or medications or anything like that.  

I will give you an example, which might help to clarify what I am saying;
     My Dr. told me to go out and walk around the yard, or walk around the block, adding more distance each day.  My body says NO WAY  I can't do that.  I tried but I would lose my breath, my back and legs would start hurting so bad I had to set down.  I gave up trying.  Then one night we went to Walmart and I walked around the store for several minutes, of course I was pushing a buggy, but that doesn't give you much support.  But I noticed that my back and legs weren't bothering me that much and I wasn't having a bit of problem breathing.  So I started going to the Mall and just slowly walking around.

     Before this realization finally hit me I was ready to just Give up and sit around the house feeling sorry for my self.  But instead I found a different way to still do what the Dr. said.  And you know what, now I can actually walk around my yard a little more.  But I'm not about to try the around the block, I live in the country and out blocks are lonnnnnnnnggggggggg. Now why didn't what the tell me to do work?  Because everyone is different!!!!  My "body" couldn't handle the rough and uneven ground.  But it could handle the smooth flat floors of the Mall to begin with, and once I built up my strength and confidence there it was willing to try and accomplish walking outside.

     Working on line is just like this.  You may join a program that gives you all kinds of advice on how to make money on line and you spend hours and hours trying to do it just like they said.  But it doesn't work.  That doesn't mean their advice is Wrong or won't work for someone else just like they say it will, it just means it doesn't work for you.  WHY Because everyone is different!!!    

     So I just tried different ways. I had learn the basics from these programs and I put that knowledge to work.  I even joined other programs ( so of which weren't recommended by the first program)  You have to be willing to step out of the BOX that people want to put you in and try other things.  If they don't work, oh well there is always a Cancel link. Even when dealing in Life's problems there is a cancel link.  Where?  In the list you have made of goals you want to reach and how you are going to try and reach them.  Ok step one didn't work,  draw a line through it or Cancel it. And go on to step two.  Not all the steps you try will work.  Because YOU are Different!!!

     God made us all Unique individuals.  Our minds are different, our bodies are different, our goals are different, our feelings are different.  We are all Different.  So sometimes it takes different ways to accomplish the goals in life we have set for our selves.

There is only ONE thing you have to remember. DON'T GIVE UP

     When you feel that I can't do this  urge come on you. Don't give up, just step back. Play a game, read a book or just relax. For a few minutes or a few days whatever it takes.  Then go back and look at your goals, think about what you might not have tried.  Ask others how they would handle it, just because you listen doesn't mean you have to do it. But don't just ignore them either. Try it, play around with it, put it in a way that YOU can do it

BUT DON'T GIVE UP
     
     





carol pinet



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