Bill went to Harrisburg to a motorcycle swap meet with his son today and that’s great because they don’t get to spend much time together. I decided to stay home and save the 15 dollars just to get in because I don’t buy anything anyhow. There’s no telling what he might find for his bike sometimes they have pretty good deals and he loves to haggle.

I’m doing a little computer work till he gets home. It’s overcast so we probably wont take out the bike because it’s no fun to get caught in the rain. Bill will probably spend the day making soup because he loves soup when it’s yucky outside. I was at Carole’s Thoughtful Spot last night and she was talking about soup.

Carole cooks soup like I do straight from the Campbell can, but Bill likes to make his own from his Mothers recipe box, he loves that box and one he really loves is what he calls Hungarian noodle soup, not quite sure why it’s called that except that his Mother is Hungarian. I told Carole I would get the recipe for her so I decided to put it in a post for her.

He serves the noodles on the side so you can add your own and he says you have to have hunky bread with it which I think is a sourdough bread loaf bigger than the Italian bread, but I eat what I want. He’s so picky about what day to have certain things and what must go with it. The recipe is below and I also added his sister’s vegetable soup recipe, but I’d call it hamburger cabbage soup.

Bill usually gets the already cubed beef in a pack and a soup bone he insists it wouldn’t be the same without it. He fills his humongous soup pot as shown below, it must be 8 quarts half way and puts the beef and celery, salt and pepper in together and lets that cook awhile. Then adds all the other ingredients, he uses the baby carrots and 2 14.5 cans of tomatoes plus the juice.

As far as the potatoes that’s the last ingredient he adds and uses about 6, but you can use less. It is very tasty and I like it. If you like cabbage you might like his sisters soup recipe, but Bill says you have to serve that one with cornbread. Like I said Bill is very fussy with his recipes, but so long as he does the cooking I really don’t care. We usually eat it for a couple days then give the leftovers to his daughter or my brother.