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I’m here @Snowie How are you today? I cooked this morning for the first time in ages. Made chilli con carne with enough for several meals. Burnt the pot though. Was delicious. I hate cooking just for me.

Hi @GezzaP

Well done for making a meal. I always cook extras so there are meals left over. Then when I can't be bothered cooking, there are meals already to go.

Chilli can carne is yummy. I cook that too.

Today has been a mixed bag. Day started off ok and then has just gone downhill. Been watching you tube to keep myself distracted. Think it will be an early night tonight.

How are you going?

@Snowie I didn’t shower today as I decided to put off going to shops until tomorrow. I can cook some pretty nice Mexican food. I like Aztec soup but it is quite complicated. It is chicken based. I make a stock the day before I cook it. I can give you the recipe if you like.

Oh glad your day started out ok. Sounds like you are a morning person like me. I get tired in the afternoon and evening and often go to bed early.

If I cook I always aim for leftovers.

Aztec soup sounds yummy @GezzaP

I've never tried to cook it before. A recipe would be great.

I love making meals that my Nan and mum used to make. I have my Nans old recipe book that she wrote her recipes in. I cook lots of them for my kids now.

I make a vegetable soup. My nan used to make it. When you walked into her house you could smell it before you saw it!! My mum used to make it for us when we were sick.

I make it for my kids too.

I am more of a morning person too.

@Snowie Recipe. Buy a bbq chicken or a chicken carcass. Bbq has more flavour eat the chicken leaving plenty of meat on the bone. Make a stock from the chicken. The longer you boil it the better just add water so it doesn’t go dry. Pull the meat of any remaining bones and place back in the stock. Finely dice an onion and add. Add a tin of corn, 2 tablespoons of sliced black olives and sliced jalapenos to taste. Add cumin to taste and lots of coriander leaves. Add tomato paste and a tin of crushed or diced tomatoes. Cook on low simmer for a couple of hours. Serve with grated cheese, avocado chunks, sour cream and crushed mission corn chips and fresh coriander garnish and more jalapenos if you like them. Mission corn chips are nicer than doritos and more like real Mexican corn chips. Enjoy.

@Snowie Can I have the recipe for the vegetable soup please?

Happy to sit for a bit @Snowie

@GezzaP will defiantly write that down and try and make it. Sounds yummy with all those ingredients in it.

Vegetable soup

1 onion, 3 carrots, 2 potatoes, 2 celery stalks, 1/2 cup barley, 2 beef cubes, 1 or 2 lamb shanks, 1 pkt french onion soup mix and chicken noodle soup mix.

Shred onion, carrot, potato, celery - Add to pot

add soup mixes, barley, beef cubes, salt and pepper

place lamb shanks in pot

fill pot with water. Bring to boil, simmer for an hour.

I’m here too @Snowie whats happening for you hon?

Thanks @Bow very much appreciated

I hope you are doing ok tonight