FFwD - Cheating On Winter Pea Soup + Coeur á la Créme

Cheating on Winter Pea Soup

This soup was easy.  This soup was good.  I didn't have any of the color issues talked about in the P&Q.  It worked and we enjoyed it.  I'll admit to curiosity about boiled romaine but it contributed a lightness and a freshness to the soup that was nice.  This is a keeper for us!

I've been telling myself (and my husband) that I would get back into my bread baking routine for several months now.  I was a regular bread baker for quite a while.  I don't know what happened.  Life I guess.  Actually, I realized just now it was my mother's illness and death 2.5 years ago. Time to get going on the things I like to do!  I know she would want me to as she took great pride in any and all of her children's accomplishments.

So it was a simple one day bread Thursday but definitely a delicious addition to the soup.  Just a basic white bread with oatmeal and flax seed.  It made a delicious ham and cheese panini to go with our soup!

I know this is the post that never ends but moving on to the coeur á la créme.  Something was lost here for me.  There was no, absolutely none, liquid to drain out.  Cream cheese, sugar, whipped cream of course it was good but I just couldn't find the point of it.  That being said, I made this while visiting my grandson and my daughter in law loved it.  I felt like it needed to be used IN something.  Like a twist on smores maybe?

This post participates in French Fridays with Dorie.  A project that is cooking through her book Around My French Table.