Two Unimportant, Albeit Perhaps Helpful, Things To Know...

I hereby pass along to you two random pieces of information:

• For dinner tonight, I took a crockpot soup recipe from one of my favourite blogs:  MennoniteGirlsCanCook (see my blog list at the bottom right of this page).  It was a very easy, crockpot recipe that I followed exactly and it was delicious.  I'm not normally a fan of using canned soup (this recipe calls for two cans of cream of chicken soup to be mixed in with the other ingredients), but for a quick-prep meal, quite frankly, I would do this again in a heartbeat.  Here's the link directly to the recipe:  Creamy Chicken Tortilla Soup.  I made a wonderful cornbread to go with it, and the combination was delightful.  Yum...hmm...there are leftovers in the fridge...

• For anyone who loved Yann Martel's Booker-Prize-winning book, Life of Pi (and I did love that book), please feel free to ignore his most recent novel, Beatrice & Virgil, regardless of what critics might say.  I just finished it, and found it increasingly morose as the book went on; throughout the last third of the book, I just wanted it done already.  I should have stopped before reading the last third, 'cause now I have content in my head that I wish I didn't.  Now I'm just sitting here feeling gloomy.  I must go immediately to my little home library to find a more uplifting book.