How a Pirate makes Potato Soup

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4 potatoes peeled and cubed to bite size

pinch of thyme

1 clove garlic

salt pepper to taste

1 onion chopped

1 handful chopped fresh spinach (optional)

2 chicken stock cubes

enough water to boil the potatoes

4tbs butter

guessing about 4oz heavy whipping cream

approx 2 tbs all purpose flour

peel and boil potatoes, while they are cooking add onion salt pepper thyme and chicken cubes. Boil till potatoes are soft. I also added chopped spinach

    While potatoes cook in a separate pan melt butter add whipping cream heat med to low stir till it thickens, pour into the potato water. 

Pour into a coffee cup and consume. can be topped with Cheddar cheese;  I did add McCormic Steak Mates Montreal Steak pepper (small palm bout the size of a quarter)

Dinner at my Place...

I'm not sure what I did that was right, it may not have been god to be blessing me even. Something about God and Pork just doesn't register with me. Perhaps its the "not kosher" rating on pork. Anyway... I cooked a pork roast, I believe it was pork shoulder I had. About 2 lbs, and quite affordable. What I didn't realize when I bought this meat it was the cut of pork I have been searching to find again. This is the fall apart, pulled pork I really enjoy. Cooked for a few hours, is so tender... I know, I'm that special idiot everyone likes to make fun of, I'll shut up now. Happy Cooking

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Sharing is a good thing. Learned long ago, growing up with a brother, having friends and life in general. Then comes the computer age, when you can 'share' info, music pictures and movies. Leaves one with a sense of accomplishment. In my life I have shared pizza since the day I knew I liked pizza. One unshared pizza and it all comes to fruition.... the best pizza has onions on it.

pizza

In the 3 rd century, BC, the First history of Rome, written by Cato the Elder, mentions a “flat round of dough dressed with olive oil, herbs and honey baked on stone, “Placenta was a “sheet of fine flour filled with cheese and honey and flavored with bay leaves”. Further evidence is found in Pompeii, the city “frozen in time” since AD79, where archaeologists have excavated shops that closely resemble modern pizzerias though several kinds of flat bread made with flour, often cooked with oil and spices, were familiar to ancient Romans and popular in all the Mediterranean area,, they were considerably different from pizza as it is known today. The tomato was still unknown in Europe and the Indian water buffalo, whose milk is used to make the real mozzarella cheese, had not yet been imported to Campania, the area around Napoli. The crust of pizza is very similar to focaccia bread common in Italian cuisine today. For some time after the tomato was brought to Europe from the Americas in the 16 th century, it was believed by many Europeans to be poisonous (as there are some other fruits of the nightshade family). click here for source