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Time to drink Hot Chocolate with miniture marshmellow help the body keep warm... That's one so good also Gumbo and Soup "Yummy" and Chili too. That sound good HUH?

18 degrees in A.M.,BRRRRRR!here,Bring on that Gumbo!

Oh that so much cold 18 degrees, That will be good for you all eat Gumbo. MMMMmmmmm Keep y'all warm ok.

Yeah, Redrose, that sounds great! DH and I got some Swiss Miss French Vanilla hot chocolate mix the other day. You reminded me about chili -- love chili and cornbread. It's pretty cold here, I'd better make some soon!

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We've had a couple of nights of -2 degrees so I think I'm going to make them all RR. LOL
whiterose, that FV hot chocolate sounds good.

Our favorite around here is baked potato and chili on top of it with some sour cream and green onion tops. Yummy and hot too.
Hot spiced apple cider is good this time of the year too. And some hot apple crisp for dessert.

Oh, Lani, stop! That sounds soooooo good!

here we are meeting the first heavy snowfall -- all are in white.
coin-sized flakes are floating about in the wuthering northeast wind.
hope the HOT SOUP will bring forth a slight warmth
inside me.

Lani, I love your menu. It doesn't love me, but I have been known to tolerate the miseries for a good bowl of steaming chili as you describe. I like to make it from scratch to keep out a lot of fat, the troublemaking ingredient for me.

Oh that sounds really good. I think I will get the fixens for chili tonight when I go to the store. It's 24 here and going to be 18 tonight.

-13,5 C here right now (8 F). Snow, clear sky with stars..

Hardly been above freezing for the past week here :( I made a big pot of beouf bourganoigne (sp) and it vanished. That really chased away the cold temporarily. Gonna make a huge pork roast on Sunday so I can render the fat for bird-seed pine cones for our feathered friends. Warmth for me and them.

Aha! So THIS is why Howie said he was getting chili fixin's. I knew it was slow at work for him tonight! ;) A couple days ago, he brought me home some General Foods International Coffee, the French Vanilla flavor. Mmmmm, it's so good made with just a little powdered milk added to the mix (and that way I don't have to mess with heating up milk, too).

Hey, GW, add a package of hot chocolate mix, like Godiva, to that FV International. Too delicious!

Ohhhhhhhh......We have some Swiss Miss.....Mmmmmmmmmm.

Aimee, I have never even seen Godiva chocolates here let alone Godiva hot cocoa mix. LOL Swiss Miss for me. Yummmmy with a little peppermint stick to stir it with.

All of you sound good YUMMY!
Tomorrow will cook Seafood Gumbo for supper.

Enjoy your hot meal!!!

A cup of hot tea with a candy cane stir-stick :) Even the tea purists might agree with it during the holidays.

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We are having hot homeade vegetable soup tonight and add some tabasco into my bowl.. YUMMY. It sure keep us warm!

in cold weather we often drink mutton soup
with hot pepper(chili)and Chinese cabbage in it.
well,a bowl or two into belly will make my nose tip sweating.):

RR, I seafood, I EAT it. LOL

Jianhua, I make lamb soup sometimes in the winter also. Since chili and my body don't get along I do not use it but I have put in Chinese cabbage. Yum Yum and I know what you mean by the nose sweating. LOL

lupinelover, Your tea sounds wonderful too. I may just try that with a certain package you sent to me. :)

I made a big pot of vegetable soup with lots of ham in it yesterday and it's too too good!!! best soup I ever made, some of y'all must have worn off on me.

I just keep going back for more chili. That Bobbie can make it so good it melts in your mouth.

Not in your hands? ;) THat sounds really good! Howie didn't get chili fixin's after all...*sniff*

So Kim you will have to get some fixings for chili. And don't forget those IDAHO potatoes for that Texas gumbo to sit on top of. LOL

Hey, Lani, our taters just dive on in!

Chili=Texas Gumbo?! ROTF! LOVE that!

Right now it's cold out and rainy ~ in the mid-40s and we haven't seen the sun in four days. I don't mind ~ I LOVE this kind of weather! Makes me feel snug as a bug to be inside. Chili was dinner a couple nights ago. I've got a pot of chicken and dumplings in the slow cooker at the moment. Mmmmm-MMM! I LOVE those dumplings that turn out not too fluffy, but not so gummy that they stick to your teeth real bad ~ just firm enough to not seem like you're eating a chunk of white bread. Yum!

Wingnut, what kind of dumplins do you cook in the crockpot, and how long must they cook? It sounds great , but I always thought they would be too chewy. Lou

My slow cooker isn't really a crock pot, Dispatcher ~ it's a mini-roaster, just like those big old turkey roasters but about two gallon capacity. It'll bring things up to almost a boil but slow cook beans all night perfectly. NEAT machine!

I don't have a recipe written down, it's in my head. But it doesn't take long. Just boil a chicken or chicken parts (bones from deboning chicken breasts is what I used tonight ~ left a little meat on them) for a few hours. Then bring to a full roiling boil and drop in the "batter" for the dumplings (yep, batter ~ canned biscuits or tortillas just aren't the same to me ;). The batter is made just like drop biscuits, but I've fiddled with the ingredients ~ found just the right amount of eggs and baking soda per flour to make them a little chewy, but not too much ~ I think less of both. I really should figure it out and write it down 'cause sometimes I still mess up and they glue Kenny's dentures together in mid-bite. *Giggle-snort!*

Wingnut, maybe you should write down the recipe both ways. There are a lot of people who would love to have a really effective stickum for their dentures! LOL

LOL, Kikisdad! Some of my dumplings would work quite nicely if you put it under your dentures. :) But Kenny's not fond of having his uppers glued to his lowers. LOLOLOLOL!

It is chili weather for sure, it's now 36 degrees here now and will be 27 tonight, I don't expect it to get any wamer any time soon. I made a big pot of chili and have been eating it all week. I also like to make a vegetable soup using Bok Choi and other vegetables with thin noodles.

RedRose how cold is it there? The thought of have some good old gumbo soup sounds heavenly, I can almost taste it.

Hey Lupy how about a nice cup a hot tea with a cinnamon stick.

They're talking about us having a chance of freezing rain overnight, with the temps warming back up in the morning and it raining, then. Yuck!

Oh yes, we did get some today but it wasn't as bad as they thought it would be. I am still waiting to hear how long this freezing rain will last and how bad it's going to get.

Here is not bad cold just 55 degrees so glad always keep on my mind worries about my plants so far everything is ok.

Oh RR I know that is cold for your area but I would love to see 55 degrees right about now.
We still have the freezing rain falling,it is 36 hazy degrees now and going down to 28 tonight.

Oh no 28 degrees, hope everything is ok with your plants and y'all keep warm ok.

Thanks, I am staying inside. The plants I have outside will over winter well, I just hope my tree rose makes it though.

As long as it doesn't break from ice, I'd think it would be okay. It's not the ice and snow that does roses in as much as the dry, cold winds, I think. Yuo might want to wrap the rose with burlap and stuff straw around it to insulate it. That's what we always told folks to do, anyway!