and I liked it!

 I fixed our usual pork roast, sausage kielbasa and sausage hotdogs in the crock pot with sauerkraut. I made corn bread (I think its called Homestyle - something).  My Mom always used Jiff.  I like other brands.  Anyway, I was reading the instructions on the box and it said for sweeter cornbread melt butter and add honey.  I did this and scored the corn bread and poured this honey butter over it....and I liked it!

I am lucky, as nobody else eats corn bread. I had some left over and this morning I fixed cheesy potato soup. I have the recipe on here somewhere from years ago.  (Jan 6 2011) I use butter, celery, whatever cheese I have (today was mild cheddar that I shredded),  whatever canned or jar cheese I have (such as Ragu jarred cheese - I have also seen this in little thick boxes), Cheez Whiz or Kraft Old English in a jar, any alfredo sauce and if I have cream of celery soup. I use half and half if I have it. This time I used heavy cream and alfredo jar sauce. I save some of the hot potato water to pour into my cans and jars after I empty them into the Dutch oven.  I had a can of chicken broth ready but did not need it. For spices, I do salt and pepper, chives and onion powder. I use a Dutch oven to keep the soup from burning on the bottom.  I have still burned it but at least with a Dutch oven it is much harder to do.

It came out just the way I like it. I crumbled cornbread into the bowl and added hot potato soup.  I ate 2 bowls.  I can't recall eating a second serving of anything for ages. I'll do leftovers but I usually eat one serving of a meal and then wrap it up and refrigerate it asap.

Sigh. And of course I have some left over.  My sister stopped in today so I gave her some.  I may go to my brother's house tomorrow to give him the extra soup and sauerkraut and kielbasa.  Actually, I am taking him a cheeseball.  My niece requested one for a NYE party she was going to; but the weather got bad so she canceled.  I am the only one in this house that eats my cheeseball and I just threw two half-eaten ones away from Christmas.  I don't want any part of this one.

The recipe and instructions for that are in this blog somewhere also. Cheese ball May 24 2008, Nov 28 2011 and Dec 29 2011.

2011 was a good year.