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White chili soup, last of the fall lettuce Meanwhile, over at the counter... IMG_5460.mov

I know the smell, and it can be wonderful. Back to procedural matters: We held an emergency session of the What's Cooking committee and this line of discussion is provisionally approved, subject to some stuff and other things. But once this 'recipe' progresses to fermentation, please continue the discussion in that other thread, which we have forgotten the name of, but you should be able to figure out. Thank you for your attention to this matter

Agree-the others are so thick and hard and kinda tear up your mouth. Interesting to hear they have a following outside the KC area.

White chili. Looks a little thin for chili I know, but very tastyand prefer this. Maybe I'll just change the name to soup 😀

I don't know how widely distributed LaTiara taco shells are, but they've been a staple in KC and our house for decades. They're just the best. They closed a couple years back and there's been a lot of interest in them possibly coming back. It seems they are! https://kmbc.com/article/la-tiara-taco-shells-production-planned-january-2026/69383485

I hope you are able to read this article regarding one of the 14 cemeteries throughout Europe that hold the remains of US soldiers killed in WWII. It's amazing the gratitude the locals have, even 80 years later. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/opinion/veterans-day-world-war-ii.html I mentioned before that on our trip to Normandy last summer it was really moving to see the remembrances, and there were as many US flags and French around Utah and Omaha beaches. They truly appreciate what the Allies did for them. Let me know if you can't get to the article and I'll try to cut/paste some of it.

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Vegetable beef soup.

Lotta work but very worth it I'm sure!

We were down to lettuce and a few peppers. Brought all that in Saturday, gifted some lettuce to a neighbor and then I dried all the red poblanos and Anaheims for chili powder and chili Colorado down the road. 20 degrees here this morning.

Around freezing here all day but very windy. Just nasty! We've got the fireplace going now and I've got a Brittany with his head in my lap and another further down on the couch. It's pretty cozy in here tonight.

Corn Chowder, improved. With a can of creamed corn instead of corn in blender. Better texture for sure, and a little sweeter too, as expected. One pot easy. A keeper.

Interesting. Me, I just never fish them. Nothing against them, I know they'll catch fish. I just never get around to them even though there are a few in the box.

Short answer is yes, it's a wet fly. Based on the swept back, softer hackles it's made with, I'd put it in the 'soft hackle' sub category.

Cool looking fly very nicely photographed. What was your setup?

Well, I broke my ankle on 9/11 so I've had to stay off it as much as possible. The garden got away from me pretty badly - didn't keep the tomatoes pruned or treated and it was a tangled mess with a lot of disease. There were a few small, hard tomatoes and probably 100 or more cherries. We did get a freeze Sunday morning. Thermometer, which is about 10 feet above ground near the garden, read 27 degrees at 6 AM. Fall lettuce did fine, Swiss chard, peppers and tender herbs didn't like it. But the fruit wasn't damaged and we brought in a bunch of small poblanos, and full-sized banana, Anaheim and Jimmy Nardellos. Also brought in some herbs to dry. Took out all the tomatoes. Disconnected the drip system. Yesterday planted 2026 garlic. Temps on the 60s+ most of this week, so we'll get some more lettuce and maybe spinach.

Walmart slider and clam chowder. Quick, crappy meal before the ghouls and goblins and kpop demons appear.

We drove through Meramec Springs Park a couple weekends ago. It had been a long time since Id been there -- close to 20 years I think. Some of it looked very familiar, but some not. Of course I remembered the iron works. I also fished the river some when I was cutting my teeth learning fly fishing. Good memories there, for sure.

Nice, plump beauties!

What a show that was!

Oh my! that all looks so good !

Two more things to wash though!🤪

I saw it again the other week. Comments are kinda fun to read😀

Nothing special really. Onion/ carrot sweat, flour, chicken broth, thyme, potatoes. Some corn and cream in the blender then whole corn at the end. I thought I could get the corn in the blender really smooth but that didn't go as planned. Would have been better with can of creamed corn.