Something’s got to give
Beloved Blogreaders, all the mistakes I’ve been making lately. Well, I made another one last night.
My friend Kathy is one marvelous cook, and she makes a potatoe-leek cream soup that is out of this world. It is really a simple recipe of a few good ingredients.
Today is Heaven Admin’s birthday, and last night I was doing the preliminaries for this wonderful soup. Before I tell you more about the soup, let me tell you what Heaven Admin is doing today and why making this soup was so important to me.
There is something called the Polar Plunge going on this Saturday morning. It is a benefit for the animals at Noah’s Ark. You may remember Noah’s Ark Animal Shelter is where Xena (now Tikva) came from.
I don’t know what the temperature is around here today, but a few days ago it was -24 Fahrenheit with wind chill. The actual temperature was -9. Yesterday was fairly mild at +20 to +28. Certainly below freezing but lovely in comparison to the days before.
I checked the current weather on my computer, and it said +14 F with snow showers.
The Polar Plunge that Heaven Admin is doing consists of leaping into the waters of the Reservoir. In order to be allowed to jump into the oh so cold water, you have to get donations. You pay for the privilege! And many good souls do this, God bless them.
And what would Heaven Admin do on his birthday but serve?
Isn’t a good hot creamy soup the best thing for Heaven Admin to have when he gets back from the chilly waters?
So last night I wanted to do the preliminaries for the soup so that when I’d get back from the Reservoir, all I would have to do is to add the final ingredients to the soup and heat it up on simmer. The final ingredients, by the way, are three cups of whole milk and 1 cup of cream! Now you have an idea of how delicious this soup has to be.
For once I was really going to do this right! I made three cups of soup stock. That means, according to Kathy’s directions, to cut up and boil carrots and a sweet potato to make a sweet broth. What fun that was! Of course, it took quite a bit of time.
While the soup stock was cooking, I cut up fine the white part of three leeks and sauteed them lightly in 3 TBS of butter. You can imagine the aroma wafting around my kitchen!
I also peeled and cut up three big Russet potatoes. When the stock was done, I strained the soup stock vegetables. First thing was that I was short a cup of broth. So I added a little more than one cup of water to the strained broth and plunked in more carrots and sweet potato. I thought it was a good idea to reboil the already-made soup stock. Hurray. Success.
I was adding the cut-up potatoes to the now three cups of boiling soup stock when the telephone rang. I’m not sure how long I was on the phone. When I returned to the kitchen, the whole pot was burned. Not a drop of the soup stock remained, and all the potato was burned black beyond recognition and stuck to the pot, a glass pot by the way. My dreams were dashed.
It took me a half hour to clean the pot. I had to dig out the crud with a spoon and scrub and scrub with baking soda. I did have more carrots and sweet potato to make a new soup stock, but only one white potato hadn’t yet gone into the broth. So today it will be back to the store for more Russet potatoes. I went to bed about 1 a.m.
I don’t have much of a sense of humor about this one. It made me face, however, that I have been overextending myself. Of course, anyone could make the same silly errors, but I have been making way too many of them. They are piling up.
I make no excuses. Nevertheless, I am generally at the computer all day and often all evening. I have been doing simply more than I can do, and like the soup stock, I’ve been cooking on the top burner too long. I have to slow down.
It is very difficult for me to let go of anything. Except for routine details and keeping track of things, I love everything I’m doing. I can’t cut down on Heavenletters.
With regret, the only thing I can think of to cut down on is this blog. I love this blog. You know I do. I am attached to it.
In addition to loving writing every word and reading every word of your comments and loving you, the blog also ensures that everyone who reads it knows that a Godwriter™ is a 100% human being, no more, no less than anyone else. When God says that anyone can Godwrite, He means anyone!
At the same time, I’m attached to this blog, very attached, and that means ego. And that means I’ve got to let go. I may have to try with all my might, yet I’m going to try to keep blog entries down to twice a week. That will give me five days with one less thing on my mind. and one less activity on the computer. I’m not even going to pressure myself into saying which two days.
Guest entries are invited. Maybe you would write some, will you? Email your blog entries, and I’ll get them up. I know you have stories to tell and love and wisdom to offer. How about it?
With love and blessings,
Gloria
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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