During the cold wintertime, it’s so refreshing to come in from the cold and enjoy a hearty worm soup. I have been experimenting with several different potato soups (I would say recipes, but TBH, I don’t use a recipe hardly ever). Yesterday before I ran out the door for work I started a soup using turkey broth I made right after thanks giving (gotta use all those bones and drippings for something right?). When I came home from work I realized that I only had the crock pot on warm and not low, so the potatoes were still hard and not done. I went ahead and cooked it over night and woke up to an amazing aroma drifting into the room. I instantly got up and wanted to dive right in. But, refrain myself because I am doing IF (intermittent fasting). Instead I cooked up some sausage to put in it and started working out. -C.L. woke up with me. “Starving to death” she stumbled into the kitchen and snagged one of the sausage patties I made for her.
After I put the sausage in the soup I go back to working out. Being interrupted when my pregnant wife wanted attention, I sat on the couch and tried not to fall asleep cuddling with her. Time was approaching when she would have to rush off to work, so she gets dressed and I put a simple lunch together for her. She’s 37 weeks today, and wanted to substitute teach for the next few weeks. I thought it might be a good way to get her out of the house and distract her until our little girl is ready to fill our house with her presence.
After doing the dishes I decide I want to make something special for her to go with the soup when she gets home from work scanning the fridge, I spy an open pack of cream cheese and rack my brain on how I can utilize this (I hate for things to go bad). While scavenging the produce drawer I notice we have 1 and 1/2 packs of white mushrooms. “Perfect!” I think. Stuffed mushrooms it is. We both love mushrooms and how can you go wrong with cream cheese? I pull out some ham I cooked a few weeks ago (and froze so we could use it for sandwiches and not have to buy sandwich meat that has a tone of preservatives and nitrate), garlic and a couple green onions. It takes just a few minutes and I have 11 perfectly stuffed mushrooms in our little toaster oven.
So what’s the point to all of this? Basically, I love my wife. And also, there is never a bad reason to make stuffed mushrooms! But mostly, I love my wife and I want her to know how amazing she is to me. I am not perfect husband to her, she agreed to put up with a lot when she married me. There is an adage that states, “how you do anything is how you do everything.” And while I am trying to show my love, just how much I love her, I cannot change the way I am as a person. I don’t always follow a strict guid to cooking, I like to add this or that, and fix it as I go. I believed this to be a strength, and not a weakness. This gives me incredible flexibility in life and allows me to adapt to fit people. So I guess the point here is that, even if you are a ridged person and have to do everything by the book. That’s okay, that is also a strength in its own right. However, as we relate to people, we must choose flexibility. Especially with those who we love. When I first started courting Caitin, I was less flexible and wanted her to come to my point of view in almost everything. I still desire those who I love to see things my way, but slowly I am getting better at letting them be wrong (of course it’s impossible that I am the one who’s wrong).
So, take a few extra moments and show the person in your life that you care about how much you love them. Need an idea on how to do that? Make some stuffed mushrooms! They are incredible – as well as super easy to make! If that’s not for you, maybe just write them a note, send a text, give them a back rub or simply tell them. People are important, don’t let today be just an average day, make someone’s day spectacular! Show those you love that you care and don’t forget to structure some flexibility into your life.
Simple recipe:
1/2 block of cream cheese (you can double it if you want) 2-3 slices of ham into tiny cubes (or use bacon) Garlic clove or two Fresh green onions 1 dozen mushrooms
Soften the cream cheese; Cut Steams from mushroom tops and chop stems into fine cubes. fry up ham and chopped mushroom stems with garlic and onions; Salt and pepper to taste; Let the ham cool; Mix ham with cream cheese; Add any additional seasoning you like. Stuff mixture evenly into as many mushrooms as you can; bake mushrooms for 10-15 minutes on 350; serve warm (they are okay cold, but nothing beats a warm stuffed mushroom). Enjoy!
S.T.
I Thessalonians 5:24
"Faithful is he..."
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