Tuesday, My pig was starving, easy meal

 Well December 7th is my pig day.  It was my grandmother's birthday which always made her sad as it was Pearl Harbor day also.  That would be a hard day to have a birthday. Anyway I digress. Miss Piggy only had $48.97 cents this year.  I knew it would be light as things have just not been normal at all.

  We have been locked down, have not shopped, have not traveled, have not eaten out. We moved and our careful financing went out the window for a while.  I started to pull back about 6 weeks ago, but will really get myself into a new way of thinking January 1st.

Hubs and I both  have been throwing our loose change which all used to go into Miss piggy into our cars change cup to help pay for our diet cokes so we don't have to break a bill. When we seriously locked down here and everything was closed, Hubs and I would go out once a day and get a soda at Mc D's.  It was our treat, it got us out of the house, we looked forward to it and my saving all my change went out the window. This will stop.  If we want a soda we will have to break a bill and I will put the money in the bank.

Our resources are seriously down this year with covid.  My shop is very, very slow and the revenue is almost 1/2 of what it was in previous years.  This is due to people not shopping and buying new clothes as they either can't afford to, or  don't need to when they are working from home. Hubs High school job is down by about $ 5,000 this year due to no concerts, recitals, or banquets. But we are truly blessed as we are getting by just fine. So it is no surprise that Miss Piggy's revenue shrunk.

I use Miss Piggy for Christmas fun money.  So I will buy some edible stocking treats with this.  I am so happy that the rest of Christmas is taken care of for the most part. I will do better next year.  Who knew that this was going to happen?

I was able to get my car quilt tied, and I hope to get it bound today after I get my quota done in the shop.

Tonight we are going to have German sausage soup. This is a recipe that I got when I worked at a cafe when I was in college.  We had a soup everyday and this cafe was famous for its soups.  I worked there for 3 years until I became pregnant with Franka.  We only had one car, which Hubs had most of the time. I rode a bike to campus for a 8 and 9 o'clock class then rode the bike over a huge bridge to downtown and worked from 10:30 to 2:00 then back to campus for a 3:00 class then rode home to meet Hubs who would pick up our oldest from his mom's place. I remember the doctor having a fit becasue I was under 100 pounds and he said I either had to stop running, or taking a ballet class everyday, or stop riding my bike. Well I loved to run to clear my head, and the dance class was a credit I needed and I had to get to class and to work. Funny how you remember things.  Okay soup....

1lb of sausage (I use brats that I get on sale when they are $2.00 a package or you can use any sausage)

2 whole onions sliced thin

6 large potatoes sliced thin

chicken broth

milk

butter 

flour

salt/pepper

Peel and slice your potatoes and boil in salted water

While they are cooking peel your sausage if necessary and brown in skillet, now transfer to a soup pot

after sausage browns remove and brown onions in sausage grease when they are translucent set them aside with sausage.  Drain almost all fat left, add 1/4 cup of butter to skillet.

You will now make a thick white sauce, by this time your potatoes should be almost cooked and you need to drain, and put them in pot with meat and onions.

salt and pepper your white sauce after you brown your flour (1/4 cup )in your butter, add milk until you have a thick gravy.  Now add to you meat/onion/ potato pot.  You can thin out this soup with chicken broth or milk. It is very good with a salad.  This makes enough for 6 good servings.  I like the spicy sausage as it gives the soup a pep. Or you can add a pinch of hot pepper flakes while browning sausage.

I can usually have this on the table in less than 1/2 an hour. It was a favorite at this cafe, usually served with a side salad and a roll.

Well I am off to get some work done.  What are you going to accomplish today? Is your revenue down this year due to covid?

Kim