The Gnome at the Bottom of the Garden

… I have mentioned C6 far too much and not mentioned H9 any where near enough. I told her that it was because sitting in her room playing on the computer wasn’t really newsworthy enough. Well APPARENTLY   she doesn’t spend ALL her time on the computer. My bad.

On Saturday she played netball. She played quite well actually. She spent the day playing Wing Defence, which is a bit unusual for her, because 1) she doesn’t like defending and 2) she hates running. Given a choice, she prefers to play goal shooter, which fulfils all her necessary criteria. Anyhow, she played defence like and attacker and managed to stop the opposing team from getting the ball down their goal end too many times.  

I suppose I should have mentioned it earlier, but I can’t be expected to remember everything. Hope that even the scales a bit.

Pumpkin Soup!

I never cook pumpkin soup from scratch anymore. I cheat - well just a bit. The problem with pumpkins (I prefer Queensland Blue) is that they are usually really big - and then you are eating soup for a month. Or you can freeze it and end up with a freezer full of soup.

I, on the other hand, just freeze the pumpkin. I boil it, strain it and mash it, then I freeze it in 2 cup portions. When we need soup, I fry up a rasher of chopped bacon, then add the pumpkin and 1 cup water and 1 teaspoon chicken stock powder. If you were really good, you could make your own stock (like Lightening does) but hey - this is for when you need soup in a hurry.

My soup is going to netball tomorrow - so come and get it! (for $2 a cup)