Hibernation

Since I have returned from Ecuador I have been obsessed with 'saving food for winter.'   Like a squirrel.  Or a pioneer women.  Or someone who does not live a 10 minute walk from two grocery stores with awesome health food sections.  But I'm obsessed.  I want a huge freezer so I can make a lifetime of food.  For the zombie apocalypse. When all the power would go out and my freezer full of soups would rot.  Anyways, I have canned, I have pickled, I have sauced.  Now I am freezing.

Tonight, during my first day of of new job, I got the brilliant idea to stock my refrigerator full of frozen soups for the winter.  And then I read about putting soup in freezer bag, setting it in a square container and freezing it.  Then you take the bag of soup out and it's in a square.  My mind was blown.  Really friends, BLOWN.  Now I have a list of 10 soups to try.   Tonights was potato broccoli.  It was delicious.  Seriously.  I added a tiny bit of soy creamer towards the end for a more creamy end.  I also added some garlic powder.  

I'm obsessed.  

I got the recipe here.  Next time I think I will try and add a couple leaves of kale and spinach to up the nutrition.  

I ran the recipe through a calculator for the whole recipe- this is easily 2.5 servings.  It's a little high in fat/carbs/sodium.  Also, I'm not sure what sort of vegetable broth they are using in this calculation but there was not 2351 mg of sodium.  Never. I think some kale and maybe some low sodium vegetable broth.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 984 g

Amount Per Serving

Calories  328 Calories from Fat  170

% Daily Value*

Total Fat  18.9g 29%

Saturated Fat  3.3g 16%

Cholesterol  0mg 0%

Sodium  2351mg 98%

Total Carbohydrates  22.1g 7%

Dietary Fiber  5.9g 24%

Sugars  8.1g

Protein  20.5g

Vitamin A 22% • Vitamin C 272% Calcium 14% • Iron 18%

Nutrition Grade A-

* Based on a 2000 calorie diet

Senior Portraits

I've been meaning to update this ol' bloggy for a while.   But, the whole no one reading and fear of sounding ridiculous thing has made me hesitant.

BUT

I have some pretty senior portraits to post.

Melissa was my 'model' for senior portraits so I could build up my portfolio and use her in advertising.  As far as things found off of craigslist, she was a wonderful surprise.  She was cute, photogenic, and knew how to pose.   We did two shoots, one in downtown Bend and the other in this ridiculous field of flowers.  I actually had to bring down the colors on the flowers because they were TOO VIBRANT.

Anyways, some photos to post.

Melissa is planning as using this photo as her yearbook photo!

This one and the one below it are my favorites.  LOOK AT THOSE FLOWERS!

 Which is your favorite?

Hannah