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[cookie]

Your right about that cooking can be very creative. I Thank you for sharing all your soup recipes with me. In colder weather I Love soup, it's very soothing & comforting. This is the first cooking forum I have tried. It's fun to share recipes with everyone, and see what cooking.... Cookie

[dianncy64]

You are welcome, Cookie, I personally favor, hands down without a doubt, my father's pea soup, so many memories ~ he put cut hotdogs in it to entice us children to eat it when we were younger, very thoughtful and creative if you ask me, loving too, but that was my father, a great man and an exceptional cook, so now I can't even eat pea soup without cut hotdogs, funny how a certain food will bring back excellent memories.

Here is another great memory associated with food: in the summer my father would entice us kids to eat vegetables by taking us to the park 1/2 mile down the street every night if we ate our vegetables (in our house we always had a minimal of 2 vegetables dishes each evening) and somehow, it got to be all the kids in the area ~ we can remember when we were getting in my fathers, 1964 Rambler station wagon, the neighbor mother's coming out and saying which of their children can go with us because they ate their vegetables hahahah my father would have kids jammed in that vehicle going to the park. And he took us ALL too, sometimes another mother had to load her car so all the ones that didn't fit in my father's car could go because they ate their vegetables.

My father told us that he would run into the neighborhood kids (now as adults with their own children) from time to time and they would always say they were eating their vegetables and were getting their children to eat them too and reminisce with my father, such a fond legacy for him.

[cookie]

What a cute story, I think that was very smart to add hot dogs to split pea soup. I always like my veggies and the park!! When I was growing up my Mom did most of the cooking. I liked her cooking it was good. When my Mom didn't feel well then my Dad would cook or order out lol.. I thought it was fun to see what he would come up with. He would make chili dogs or Hamburgs, or get MCdonald's. Order a pizza. He would wing it it was funny lol. Cookie

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Dianncy64 your father was a beautiful person and terrific father, I love men that are that involved with raising their family! Thank you for sharing that heart-warming story I loved reading it and smiling as I envisioned all you guys cramming into that Rambler

For my daughter & I's birthday we are going this Fri. night to a drive-in movie theatre. It has been years since we've been, I am so excited I can not wait! I hope they will still be showing "Beverly Hills Chihuahua"! It is located a good hours drive from here and I won't mind a bit. It will be worth it I am loading up on chocolate covered p-nuts & raisins, and Snow-Caps, and popcorn & cold sodas!

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Brook doesnt post anymore Mapiva. You might pm him your question and get a response.