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  • A Thunderstorm Evening 7/21/2025

    From Jill McQuown@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 21 20:37:51 2025
    There is lightning flashing, thunder booming. The storm is right
    overhead. It just started raining torrents. It's really noisy outside.
    My kitten Cleo is hiding under the couch.

    For dinner tonight, I made potato leek soup. It's such an easy recipe
    but it's a good thing I prepared it before this storm moved in because
    it's entirely possibly the power might go out if the lightning keeps up.

    What's cooking at your house tonight?

    Jill

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  • From Ed P@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Mon Jul 21 21:07:31 2025
    On 7/21/2025 8:37 PM, Jill McQuown wrote:
    There is lightning flashing, thunder booming.  The storm is right overhead.  It just started raining torrents.  It's really noisy outside.
     My kitten Cleo is hiding under the couch.

    For dinner tonight, I made potato leek soup.  It's such an easy recipe
    but it's a good thing I prepared it before this storm moved in because
    it's entirely possibly the power might go out if the lightning keeps up.

    What's cooking at your house tonight?

    Jill


    I love a good thunderstorm! Our area is the highest in lightening
    strikes in the country and my weather station my record hundreds in a 20
    mile radius. This time of year, they are possible most every day.

    No cooking here. My DIL did not cook tonight so they got pizza. My son brought me some, of course.

    Since I got home ten days ago, one night I reheated a frozen leftover,
    will again tomorrow, but that has been the extent of my dinner cooking.

    My son and DIL have been wonderful. Six years ago, I was not sure how
    it would be having them next door, but it is great. The help with food
    and transportion is a huge help.

    Tomorrow, I will have a car again but won't be going anywhere with one
    leg if I can avoid it. I don't need much, but they have done the
    shopping too.

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  • From Dave Smith@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Mon Jul 21 22:27:34 2025
    On 2025-07-21 8:37 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
    There is lightning flashing, thunder booming.  The storm is right overhead.  It just started raining torrents.  It's really noisy outside.
     My kitten Cleo is hiding under the couch.

    For dinner tonight, I made potato leek soup.  It's such an easy recipe
    but it's a good thing I prepared it before this storm moved in because
    it's entirely possibly the power might go out if the lightning keeps up.

    What's cooking at your house tonight?


    We had chicken breast that had been marinated in peri peri sauce and
    then grilled on the gas BBQ along with a red pepper, steamed green beans
    and some reheated rice that had been left over from take out Thai food a
    few days ago.

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net on Tue Jul 22 13:08:25 2025
    On 22 Jul 2025 02:58:43 GMT, Leonard Blaisdell
    <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

    On 2025-07-22, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

    What's cooking at your house tonight?


    Today, my wife took me to the opthalmologist at 7:45 AM. Around 10:00
    AM, we dropped off a older iPad, for one granddaughter, at the UPS Store. >Then I went to the grocery store. Then I went to the cardiologist. Then
    I went to the ATM on the way back. Then I quit and cracked open a Bud.
    We had pork 'n york last night and there's some left for her, tonight.
    I'm pooped, and possibly cranky.

    Cranky's nothing a couple of coldies won't fix!

    --
    Bruce <https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/gettyimages-681946574-20250717233334800.jpg>

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  • From Leonard Blaisdell@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Tue Jul 22 02:58:43 2025
    On 2025-07-22, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

    What's cooking at your house tonight?


    Today, my wife took me to the opthalmologist at 7:45 AM. Around 10:00
    AM, we dropped off a older iPad, for one granddaughter, at the UPS Store.
    Then I went to the grocery store. Then I went to the cardiologist. Then
    I went to the ATM on the way back. Then I quit and cracked open a Bud.
    We had pork 'n york last night and there's some left for her, tonight.
    I'm pooped, and possibly cranky.

    leo

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  • From S Viemeister@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Tue Jul 22 07:52:47 2025
    On 7/22/2025 1:37 AM, Jill McQuown wrote:
    There is lightning flashing, thunder booming.  The storm is right overhead.  It just started raining torrents.  It's really noisy outside.
     My kitten Cleo is hiding under the couch.

    For dinner tonight, I made potato leek soup.  It's such an easy recipe
    but it's a good thing I prepared it before this storm moved in because
    it's entirely possibly the power might go out if the lightning keeps up.

    What's cooking at your house tonight?


    Leek and potato soup!
    A large batch, divided into three - one plain, one with chunks of ham,
    and one with chunks of haddock.
    The haddock will be for tonight, the other two will be frozen for later consumption.

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to Bryan Simmons on Tue Jul 22 19:59:58 2025
    Bryan Simmons wrote on 7/22/2025 7:28 PM:
    On 7/21/2025 9:58 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
    On 2025-07-22, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:

    What's cooking at your house tonight?


    Today, my wife took me to the opthalmologist at 7:45 AM. Around 10:00
    AM, we dropped off a older iPad, for one granddaughter, at the UPS Store.
    Then I went to the grocery store. Then I went to the cardiologist. Then
    I went to the ATM on the way back. Then I quit and cracked open a Bud.
    We had pork 'n york last night and there's some left for her, tonight.
    I'm pooped, and possibly cranky.

    Shitty beer makes me cranky too.

    How would you know? You've always drank the finest beer in the universe
    (and crowed about constantly it here).

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  • From Jill McQuown@21:1/5 to S Viemeister on Wed Jul 23 18:14:20 2025
    On 7/22/2025 2:52 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
    On 7/22/2025 1:37 AM, Jill McQuown wrote:
    There is lightning flashing, thunder booming.  The storm is right
    overhead.  It just started raining torrents.  It's really noisy
    outside.   My kitten Cleo is hiding under the couch.

    For dinner tonight, I made potato leek soup.  It's such an easy recipe
    but it's a good thing I prepared it before this storm moved in because
    it's entirely possibly the power might go out if the lightning keeps up.

    What's cooking at your house tonight?


    Leek and potato soup!
    A large batch, divided into three - one plain, one with chunks of ham,
    and one with chunks of haddock.
    The haddock will be for tonight, the other two will be frozen for later consumption.

    I've never added fish to potato leek (or leek and potato) soup.
    Sometimes I add crumbled cooked streaky bacon. :)

    Jill

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  • From Dave Smith@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Wed Jul 23 19:00:37 2025
    On 2025-07-23 6:14 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
    On 7/22/2025 2:52 AM, S Viemeister wrote:

    A large batch, divided into three - one plain, one with chunks of ham,
    and one with chunks of haddock.
    The haddock will be for tonight, the other two will be frozen for
    later consumption.

    I've never added fish to potato leek (or leek and potato) soup.
    Sometimes I add crumbled cooked streaky bacon. :)



    Friends once served us a potato leek soup topped with crumbled blue
    cheese. It was very tasty.

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  • From Hank Rogers@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Wed Jul 23 17:59:54 2025
    Jill McQuown wrote on 7/23/2025 5:14 PM:
    On 7/22/2025 2:52 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
    On 7/22/2025 1:37 AM, Jill McQuown wrote:
    There is lightning flashing, thunder booming.  The storm is right
    overhead.  It just started raining torrents.  It's really noisy
    outside.   My kitten Cleo is hiding under the couch.

    For dinner tonight, I made potato leek soup.  It's such an easy
    recipe but it's a good thing I prepared it before this storm moved in
    because it's entirely possibly the power might go out if the
    lightning keeps up.

    What's cooking at your house tonight?


    Leek and potato soup!
    A large batch, divided into three - one plain, one with chunks of ham,
    and one with chunks of haddock.
    The haddock will be for tonight, the other two will be frozen for
    later consumption.

    I've never added fish to potato leek (or leek and potato) soup.
    Sometimes I add crumbled cooked streaky bacon. :)

    Jill

    I would certainly NEVER add fish to potato leek soup, since your Majesty
    does not!

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  • From S Viemeister@21:1/5 to Jill McQuown on Thu Jul 24 06:44:55 2025
    On 7/23/2025 11:14 PM, Jill McQuown wrote:
    On 7/22/2025 2:52 AM, S Viemeister wrote:
    On 7/22/2025 1:37 AM, Jill McQuown wrote:
    There is lightning flashing, thunder booming.  The storm is right
    overhead.  It just started raining torrents.  It's really noisy
    outside.   My kitten Cleo is hiding under the couch.

    For dinner tonight, I made potato leek soup.  It's such an easy
    recipe but it's a good thing I prepared it before this storm moved in
    because it's entirely possibly the power might go out if the
    lightning keeps up.

    What's cooking at your house tonight?


    Leek and potato soup!
    A large batch, divided into three - one plain, one with chunks of ham,
    and one with chunks of haddock.
    The haddock will be for tonight, the other two will be frozen for
    later consumption.

    I've never added fish to potato leek (or leek and potato) soup.
    Sometimes I add crumbled cooked streaky bacon. :)

    With the haddock, it becomes a tasty fish chowder.
    Crumbled streaky bacon is an excellent addition, too.

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