Happy Thursday, friends! It's getting to be soup weather, and I love soup weather. Last Saturday I had some soup in the crockpot because I knew I would appreciate not having to do much cooking later after a day of yard work.
This after two bowls were taken out - vegetable beef.
Considering we're getting to the end of October, I thought this was cute!
We have two boys, so I never made any witch costumes, but I did make lots of Halloween costumes for them. Simple was always better, so we did lots of things with sweatshirts and sweatpants. This is a very blurry picture from 1988 that I scanned in - I think they were a pirate and Darth Vader. Neither boy ever liked masks much.
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And this funny one I found is probably from 1989. Andy (older son) wanted to be a Denver Bronco football player. Someone had given us a kid's NY Jets helmet, so we painted it with craft paint and added stickers so it would look like a Broncos' helmet. On Halloween night it snowed!
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Brrr! And the painted helmet was dripping paint, lol!
All the years I was teaching, I dressed up on Halloween and the whole school would make a parade through all the classrooms. I remember dressing up as Minnie Mouse some years, and once as a hobbit. But the last few years, this is what I wore.
I always get some laughs with this one!
And one more thing on the sewing theme, I finished this book recently and really enjoyed it! It's historical fiction and focuses on fashion and clothes rationing in WWII England. Besides being a good story, I learned a lot from it, too!
Hope you're having a great week! Thanks for visiting on "I Like Thursday," hosted by LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color.
P.S. Do any of you have one of these, a Ninja Pressure Cooker/Air Fryer? What do you think of it? All reviews welcome!
I haven't joined the airfryer revolution yet. Maybe I will ask for one for Christmas ? Thanks for the book recommendation, I've added it to my list!
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If you don't already have a pressure cooker, it might be a good investment. I don't think we'd get much use of the air fryer feature. We love our Instant Pot that also doubles as a slow cooker.
ReplyDeleteI love a good bowl of soup and find that soup quote accurate, although most of the time, I am using holy chants (to create magic) without the benefit of an old tome.
ReplyDeleteI am a big fan of the pressure cooker. I have a small, basic, non-electric, pressure cooker from India (seriously, every Indian home has one)that I brought with me when I came to the US in 2003. Lentil soups, curried beans, rice pilaf, lamb stew and so much more are created from its humble belly.
Thanks for the book recommendation, just added it to my library hold list.
ReplyDeleteI was glad to see that my sister had a air pressure fryer when we went to visit her last month as I have been on the fence about it - she used it to make bake potatoes while we were there and it appeared to take just as long as the oven in my opinion - she kept thinking it would be done and it wasn't and more time kept being added - it doesn't get the room hot like an oven would but that is what I like about oven meals in the winter is it helps to heat the house. Maybe if she had used it for something else I would have been able to tell if I wanted one. I use a crock pot for somethings and an instant pot for others. The crockpot is old the instant pot was a gift (I most likely would not have bought it - it takes up too much room and I have no room for it but leave out on the counter and yet at times use it but once a week. I do not like the crockpot as a slow cooker it just doesn't work the same in my opinion it cooks too fast
ReplyDeleteDefinitely soup weather, we had chicken noodle the other night. I have been hungry for Chili also. I don't have one of those fryers but lots of people think they are fantastic. I have a crockpot that works just fine, LOL. Plus I have no more room to store anything in the kitchen!
ReplyDeleteThe 9-in-1 product you show may be a good thing - combine all the ways to cook into one unit! We had snow one year for Halloween, too. In fact, several year, lol! I created costumes that could go over the kids' winter coats. Fun, fun! Now the kids don't go door-to-door for Trick Or Treating. The businesses downtown hand out goodies. And where we live in the country, NOBODY stops by, so we don't have to buy tons of candy that we end up eating ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI am laughing over your Halloween shirt - that's my kind of costume! That soup looks good.
ReplyDeleteWe have two air fryers (don't ask, Hubs thought the second one was such a "bargain"), and I probably use one or the other twice a week or so. We use them for baked potatoes and also for crisping up precooked foods like chicken strips and fries or tots, but I haven't utilized them fully. And we have an instant pot I also haven't used as much as I should. The main thing I make in it is rice.
My husband is a big fan of gadgets and "toys", so that is why we have those things, so I'm not telling him about the combination of air fryer/pressure cooker!
I enjoyed all your pictures. I cannot remember a single costume I wore as a child! Weird?
ReplyDeleteI don’t have an air fryer or an Instant Pot. I use a crockpot, very much like yours. I have a rice cooker. DD thinks I should have an air fryer, but I’m like a lot of commenters! Room is an issue! Already my crockpot and rice cooker live downstairs in the pantry closet! Some day soon I’ll tire of all the trips up and down the stairs! Yikes, I’m not liking feeling so “elderly”!
Yay for soup and stew season! I remember trick-or-treating in a snowstorm once! LOL. We keep eyeballing an instapot, but still can't quite justify it.
ReplyDeleteYes as a teacher too Halloween was always a great day in the primary and elementary schools I taught in and I always dressed up. Those were fun days, tiring but fun. Cute photos there of your boys. I don't know much about pressure cookers but I sure love my slow cooker. Love your Autumn Jubilee...last post, Diann. Gorgeous really.
ReplyDeleteHow fun to look back at previous costumes. You had me reminiscing about my girls' costumes. It is getting soup season. A good veggie soup sounds wonderful. Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteyour soup looks so good. I just love soup or a casserole. So cute your kids and Mike. When we moved here it seemed to snow in early October. Minnie mouse... that would be good for you! don't have an air fryer... LeeAnna
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