Home Tour Part 1

Today is all about home and garden. I thought it would be fun to show you some of the rooms I love to hang in. 

I don't spend a lot on furniture and home decor. I have in the past, but honestly, in our house it doesn't last any longer so we are happy with IKEA mostly, with sparklings of kmart and my house and adairs. 

The room that I am mostly in, is the front room, as we affectionately  call it, or, our living room. It's really meant to be a formal lounge and dining, but we have just turned it into one big room to hang, play games in and watch tv. Well, actually, we watch a whole lot of movies. 

So, here it is.

Here is my entry. It is a kind of funny shape. It has 6 sides, but it holds our beloved fiction books, well, some of them, and my precious Harry Potter collection...tad obsession here...lol...

Here is the dining area. We have had this table for many years. I fell in love with it all those years ago...it was shiny and made from recycled wood. I am wanting to get some black industrial chairs to go with it. I think that will go really well....need to paint the walls and get some decent pictures up on the wall...

This room also has what we call the "new unit" which  holds all our bulk from old stuff basically. We have had is for about 15 years so it's not really new...lol...

Well, there it is. A few rooms. Very ordinary, but it's home.

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Until next time

lots of it

Mandy

xxx

Yummy Vegetarian Soup

Last night I made a delicious vegetarian soup for dinner. The photo doesn't do it justice.

I run a Facebook produce swap group in my local area and was lucky enough to swap some of my citrus for some pumpkins and some kale.

I watered my garden and picked the produce I needed from my garden in the morning.

I then got a large container and put all the ingredients I needed for the recipe into that box. It made dinner time as simple as chopping and cooking and reduced my meal time cooking. I think I will use this system regularly. 

As you can see I popped the recipe in too. I put it into a plastic sleeve to protect it.

I made changes to the recipe to make it suit our family.

I doubled the herbs

Three leeks

I used two litres of filtered water and 8 measured teaspoons of continental vegetable stock instead of the liquid stock.

That's about all I changed really.

Let me tell you, we will be eating this again. It was one of the best soups I have had.

I kept the leftover scraps as I can possibly make a Vegie stock out of these in a couple of days time and maybe freeze it.

Here is the link to the recipe.

Pumpkin, kale and butter bean soup.

Now...costings, and yes, it was a cheap meal for our family.

Pumpkin free

Kale free

Beans two tins for $3

Leeks  $2

Herbs free

Stock  .50 

Bread rolls  $2

Garlic about $1

I forgot about the Parmesan, but it tasted wonderful without it anyway.

So, a total of $8.50 to feed a family of 8 and we even had leftovers which I will be having for lunch today.

It's worth a try, even satisfied my meat eaters.

Oh, and here is a photo of my lovely soap drying. I think I just might give real soap a go...

Let me know if you try the soup and what you think about it.

Until next time

Lots of it

Mandy

xxx