A Recipe for Potato Soup/stew

I love potato soup/stew and so with a little experimenting I like using my crock pot to make this.
You can do this either way; but my family likes the potatoes with the peel on, and I know some people don't like the peel so if you don't peel your potatoes.
For my family I use about 9-12 potatoes and the large the better, I slice the potatoes at a angle and toss them in the crock pot with 4-6 cups of water, depending on how large your family is but if you end up with extra you can freeze it for another meal.
I love adding caned milk or regular milk can be used, add 2 small chopped onions, and you can add cooked up bacon, sausage, hamburger(cooked) celery, basil, peas, carrots, in this case I add onion, already cooked hamburger and basil.
You can add whatever you and your family like, I want to mention the canned milk really gives it a good favor and you should add at least 2 cans to your crock pot. Check on it from time to time just to stir and add about a tsp of flour for a more thicker sauce if you would like or just leave it as is and have a thinner soup/stew.
Now set your crock pot to low( start this early in the day) and let it cook all day long, serve with corn bread or sourdough toast,buttermilk biscuits and a green salad.

Busy Crocheting last Night

Well gosh, last night was so nice and warm but quiet that I had to find something to do. So I double some yarn I had called Country creme and make 2 small baskets from the yard.
They came out quite interesting doubling the yarn and using a small crochet hook.
I used a double, triple and decreased a stitch here and there; the larger basket is about 9 inches tall and the smaller between 4 1/2 to 5 inches tall. I did these up as I was watching Step-Brothers and Hancock both were okay....
Guess I am just an old fan of classic movies I love Abbott and Costello in met Frankenstein and Dracula.
I like new movies also, I just did not care for the language content in Step-Brothers, I like some things left to imagination I guess. So you can call med an old FUD dud.




I also have the new doll I am going to make this weekend all cut out and ready to go. I did her face in cotton embroidery floss by hand already now all I have to do is start sewing everything together, she is going to be a fairly large cloth doll and she will be small kid safe.

Computer Woes Again

Well it is nice to be back, on my computer which crashed on me almost 2 weeks ago. Now you all kind of know what happened or why I disappeared good grief, that's why I have not been talking about the new doll I am creating.
This crash also was not good for my online school, yikes right now I have an F in biology because I could not upload my assignment so I am working hard to change that.
It was a bad crash also; the tech had to re-register my computer and just put on new protection, no it did not have a virus, just not sure what made the darn thing crash, it will just have to remain a mystery. On to a more positive note....

We cooked out doors the last two days because of all this nice weather and so I am going to share a simple recipe for my homemade sauce.
The sauce is really simple just chop an red onion and chop a green pepper into small pieces and you will need:
1 cup of heavy dark molasses
1/2 to a cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup to 1 cup of Ketchup (depending on how much you need.)
Tabasco sauce about 1/2 a tsp.
1/2 of 57 sauce
Mix everything in a small bowl until well combined; you should have a nice thick sauce to spread over chicken, ribs, steaks, and now grill away.
This is a bit spicy so if you don't like lots of spice leave out the Tabasco sauce. Use a brush to brush onto your meats and when its done it will have a dark rich looking glaze. This is really yum on any kind of meat product.