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Soup and a Sandwich?

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Campbells has their beautiful factory in Camden, New Jersey.

1. What is your favorite sandwich? What kind of bread, roll.. toasted or not? Butter: salted or sweet?
I am not a huge sandwich fan, but when I do have a sandwich, lately here at home I've been using dark pumpernickel bread.  However, if I had any other kind of good bread, like something homemade, or a croissant, or a nice crusty French roll or anything a little different than the usual plain old store bought Honey Wheat bread that we use for everything else, I would gladly use that. I do like toasted bread/rolls  so the bread doesn't get soggy. I also like to toast the sandwich with the meat and cheese on it in my toaster oven and make it a hot melt sandwich occasionally.  And I do prefer real butter, and I use the salted kind. If it were  homemade butter I guess it wouldn't matter if it were salted or sweet, it would be good. Oh, my favorite sandwich? Hmmm, probably ham and swiss on the pumpernickel, because that is what I have mostly. But, if there's anything else to choose from, like a BLT, tuna salad, chicken salad, ham salad, pork loin, BBQ, hamburger, roast beef...a little variety is the "spice of life".  

Oh, and don't forget Peanut Butter!  I must go back and say that is my favorite go-to sandwich when all else fails. I sometimes eat a peanut butter and bread sandwich (no jelly) just before going to bed to help keep my tummy grumbles away. Only one piece of bread with peanut butter.  But I do love it with either apple butter or sometimes with bananas, however bananas and I aren't getting along these days so I haven't been eating them as much. They have to be just barely ripe or I can't eat them.  I also eat peanut butter with apple butter on toast for breakfast quite often...and I like it on cinnamon raisin toast in particular!


2. Do you have a favorite soup? Do you make homemade soup often? What kind? What's your favorite store bought soup?

I don't make homemade soup often enough. I love it when I do. Of course my all time favorite would be home made vegetable beef soup, with tender pieces of roast beef, potatoes, carrots, onions, and a variety of whatever vegetables are available.  I also make what we call "Hobo Stew", which I've talked about many times before.  Here's a link to a post with the recipe.  I also love homemade potato soup, broccoli and cheese soup, and homemade chicken noodle soup. If we still lived in New England, my favorite soup is authentic seafood chowder, made with a variety of fresh seafood, like scallops, lobster, shrimp or haddock or whatever they use that makes it so good. You can't find that down here in the south. 

My favorite store bought soup...well probably Campbell's Tomato and Campbell's original chicken noodle soup, which I keep on hand for those days when I feel a little puny. It's the best thing to help get my tummy feeling better without overdoing it.

3. What kind of cheese should be on a grilled cheese sandwich and should it be served with tomato soup or some other flavor ?

I use American cheese for a grilled cheese sandwich, and yes, it needs to go with Campbell's Tomato soup (the creamy kind made with milk).

4. Is it a Hoagie, a Sub, a Zeppelin, a Grinder, or a Hero or maybe a Dagwood? What's on it? Oil.. vinegar, onions, peppers, mayo?

If I go to Subway or some place like that, which isn't very often, it's a "Sub", and I usually get ham and swiss or provolone cheese, and yes, a little oil/vinegar mixed with onions, green peppers, NO mayo, a little oregano. Oh, and some yellow mustard.  

Thanks for dropping by!

Thank YOU, Annie, for doing this for us each week!  Now, since this is Holy Week, here's a picture that I took in our yard that I've been wanting to share:

These are the crosses that appear at the tops of the Pine Trees every year usually just prior to Easter. This makes me think about several different places in the Bible that talk about how nature praises God:

Isaiah 55:12

“For you shall go out with joy,

And be led out with peace;

The mountains and the hills

Shall break forth into singing before you,

And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

There's even a song to go along with that verse:

And in another place, when Jesus was on His Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday here is what He said:

Luke 19:37-40

37 Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, 

38 saying:“ ‘Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!’

Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

39 And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.”

40 But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.”

The very rocks would cry out if we do not praise Him! That's pretty profound...and something to think about as we progress on our journey toward the cross this week.  Are we praising Jesus for what He has done for us?

Here's some of God's Creation giving thanks and praise to their Creator this week around Still Waters Pond:

And with that I will finally bring this post to a close. It's taken me most of the day because of numerous interruptions, like removing a live lizard from inside the house, and going to the store and looking for a new dress for Easter, and finding one that I got all kinds of discounts on at Beall's Outlet, so that made me smile, and doing two loads of laundry, fixing breakfast and of course lunch, and taking a nap. Now we are heading to the library to pick up some books I ordered and return some I just finished. I am currently reading anything I can find written by Lisa Wingate. She has some good ones.

Okay, tonight is dress rehearsal for our Easter Cantata, so I need to get a move on and not be late to choir practice!  TTYL...