Simmering

Sunday, June 1, 2014

Today was voting day for Uruguay.  The whole stake had to meet in this teeny, tiny chapel in Paso Carrasco because the bigger chapels are all used as voting poll places.  

I had put some split pea soup on to simmer while we were at church. This was a bigger project than expected. The night before, I had to split my own peas.  The only dried peas I could find at the Granero were whole.  I thought no problem because I would use my grinder.  The grinder worked fine but I discovered that these had a soft paper thin coating around them and now I had alot of chaff.  So, we put the split peas in an empty water pitcher (a few at a time) and then took my hair dryer and blew the chaff out.  Of course Mike did this outside.  It took some time but it worked!  I soaked the peas all night and then everything was ready for simmering soup.  Except, my stove top does not know how to simmer. It has high and medium high.  So the picture says it all!

There is a flat pan on the bottom (handle seen on the left), the my fry pan on top of that, upside down, and then my soup pot.  

I worried about it all during church and then we needed to take people home.  I thought for sure there might be disaster waiting for me but nope!  I took split pea soup to the break the fast temple group and everyone who finally tried my soup absolutely loved it!
Our patio needed a major clean up though.

 Monday, June 02, 2014

Mike went with Elder Pugmire today 

so I did my FIRST solo drive to the office. I am still alive, so all went well.