Some nettles used

[lillilah]

I'd like to use up some of the nettles in our garden. However, they weren't especially tasty when I made them last time, so I asked ChatGPT for recipes. The first thing it suggested was a soup. Now, I am not going to make a normal soup with them, because I'm allergic to most thing that it suggested for the soup. However, I had pea soup cooking at that moment, so I went out, pulled up some nettles, cut off the leaves, washed them, and threw them in the soup. We'll see how they taste tomorrow when I eat the soup, but I think they will work out pretty well. The problem is that I only cook pea soup every four days, and this batch used 3-5 nettle plants. I think we have hundreds in the garden. However, many of those have flowered, so they aren't as edible anymore. I'm going to try to pull as many of the ones going to see as possible. Then, later this week, I'll make another batch of split pea, rice, and nettle soup. I may only have enough usable nettles in the garden for a few batches, but that's fine. Mainly, the goal is to use them up. I'm sure that we'll have some next year too.

While I didn't manage to do any painting, I did get a lot of other stuff done, which is probably why I'm ready for bed, and it isn't even 10pm yet. That's good, though. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish up down here and get up to bed soon, although I'd really like to vacuum at least the downstairs first.

Joel said today that the house feels more like a little kids' hideout than a real house, and I agree. I think that means that we are doing things correctly.