Soup weather

Cold weather is soup weather at our house.  We enjoy a variety of homemade soups throughout the season.

Readers here know I've been furnishing the River House with colorful china from thrift shops.   I easily covered the basics but will  still add something it it is colorful and a little different.  That's why I bought this soup bowl for $1.69 when I spotted it.

When I got the bowl home I filled it with one of our winter favorites, mushroom barley soup.  Those orange flecks in the soup are carrots  -  something we add to the basic recipe just to sweeten it up a bit.

Do you have a favorite soup?  A favorite bowl to put it in?

Monday Morning

Good Morning!  Once again I was away without internet connection for awhile.  I really have to figure out how to use Blogger from my phone.

Meanwhile, I'm happy to report that things are getting in shape at the River House.  We have all the basics covered and now it is time to add those fun things that make a house a home.

Pioneer Woman cookware

My daughter and her husband recently spent several days the the river.  She was just in time to get the last of the peaches and wanted to make a cobbler.  Searching through the cupboards she found we only had foil pans for that sort of thing.  She used one but wasn't thrilled about it, LOL!

They returned to spend a day while we were there and she brought these casserole dishes.  Aren't they pretty?  They are a great addition to our thrifted colorful china collection (although they are new not thrifted). My daughter is a big Pioneer Woman fan and said she couldn't resist these.  Her next cobbler with be served in a pretty pan!

Now we need to think of more things that need to cook in this sort of dish just so we can use them  What would you put in them?  Do you watch the Pioneer Woman shows?

More Thrifted China

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm visiting thrift stores in search of colorful china.  I'm mainly interested in solid colors to make a mismatched set of dishes to serve our meals on but I'm also planning to hang some colorful dishes on the dining area wall.

This is a shallow bowl.  It was priced at $3.99 which is more than I'm usually willing to pay.  However, it is unusual and colorful so it went home with me.

Here you see that back of the piece and get a better feel for the bowl shape.  Notice there at the top of the base rim there are two holes.  Clearly this was meant to hang somewhere.

I found this plate for $1.  It is larger than a saucer but smaller than a dinner plate.  It is marked "World Market" on the back so it isn't old or particularly collectable.  I bought it for the color and design.

Are you seeing a theme here?  I hope so.