October 31, 2008
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Weekly Photo Challenge, “Crunch Time”
the subject from, Czolya is:
… “ Crunch Time ” …
I lived through a frustration this evening, learning once again, from the experience. The moral of my story, there is more than a single way to skin a cat. The Xanga uploader will not load animations, in working order. I tried maybe 5 times until, rethinking the problem, I loaded the animation from inside the editor, and it’s working. If I can remember what I have learned, for the next time around, I’ll be very pleased with myself.
So, I salvaged my entry which I thought was SHOT DOWN, by the Xanga Gods.
It’s that time of year, heading into the discovery of new Recipes to crunch/munch into and lots of family gatherings.
It’s Crunch Time
Now, that’s scary!
MAKE SOME JACK-O-LANTERNS: CLICK HERE
Tomato, Cranberry, Orange soup and Hot tea or apple cider make a fun meal for Halloween. It’s Yummy.
2 cans of tomato soup (I use Campbell’s)
2 cans of water
1 can of whole cranberry sauce or cranraspberry sauce, sort of smoothed out with a fork before adding. Don’t break the berries up.
1 can of mandarin oranges including the juice, same size can as the cranberries
OPTIONAL: ChiChi salsa and I use about a 1/6 of the tomato soup can for each can of soup
OPTIONAL: Splenda or sugar to equal the packets used, 2 packets per can of soup
OPTIONAL: I like to add into the ladled bowls of soup, a tablespoon or two of real cream. Cooking it will curdle the cream if it gets too hot.
GARNISH: Ground Cinnamon and fresh grated nutmeg is nice, too.DIRECTIONS: Mix soups with the water till smooth. Heat till good and hot, don’t burn. Add all other ingredients mixing well then reheat to a nice eating temperature. Ladle into bowls, add cream now if you plan to use it, dust with cinnamon and/or nutmeg and serve. Gingersnaps are good with this or your choice of saltines.
Have a great week, Xanga. Keep your kids safe over Halloween by attending a supervised party instead of trusting in unknown neighbors who may be the bogeyman disguised as Mr. Nice.
Comments (14)
I am amazed by your animation . This is something I am unable to do .
What you show is joyful and excites the appetite .
I clicked on your link in your comment and I read many things that I liked to read . Thank you .
Have a happy Halloween , Becca . We don’ t celebrate it in France ( or so little ).
Love
Michel
….and of course I thank you for your kind comment about Janine . We are really relieved after a hard and stressing wait .
Love
Michel
Yes great animation Becca! and a nice recipe too, hope you enjoy/enjoyed your week end away, in reply to Michel above, Halloween IS celebrated in this part of france, maybe as we are so close to Germany, i dont know, we shall be going to see a friend tonight not for halloween but because i forgot his birthday last week
Love it Becca. Looks more like “Munch time” than “Crunch time”. Have a great weekend.
Very intuitive Becca. Such a nice animation of the pumpkin! Must show it to the kiddies. Recipe looks good.
@gandywhite - I had to edit your word, Munch into my blog. You are so right, it’s more Munch than Crunch but I had to think of something for this challenge. I hate not to do anyones challenge no matter how hard to think of something. Good for my brain, working out “what to do”.
Have a great weekend. Becca
@fauquet - Hugs to you both, Michel. You are my kind of people. Becca
Quiet a bit work went into that animation Becca—you clever girl
Great post, both the animation and the food. We had baked pumpkin this year but it was not as tasty as last year’s soup.
@rojobe - we are big soup lovers in our house. We will try about anything and though some are a little on the different side, they work for particular occassions. We could use a really good pumpkin soup recipe here if you are willing to share. Thanks for the comment.
yummy and great photos.
Delicious soup. I have to make it…….I love to cook……..maybe I can make it for the volunteers this year when I do the cooking for them….warm their tummies and their taste buds……If you ever want to try some of my recipes I will give you the link to my other site.
Thanks for the insightful comments…I enjoyed reading them as there is much we agree about.
I like the new Name ….it fits your style very well!
Doug
@Dosmangoes - Actually, this site, PhotoGraphics is my photo site and it is one of several I have in Xanga. I did change my LittleEgypt name today. It now has my real name, http://www.xanga.com/RSBlain . I decided a while back that anything that hints at reflections of the Arab world, makes me uncomfortable now. As I said, the name came from a fifties song but there have been people in my xanga past who seemed to think I was Arab because of the name. After this election, I just couldn’t stomach it anymore, so the change. Becca