Our apartment is really cute, and very cheap, so it's made a great place to be for a few years while we saved money to buy a house. If you've read my blog for the past few months, we are diligently searching for a house outside of town so we can sit in our backyard and hear our garden growing, instead of our crazed neighbor hollering at his cats. In the past four years of living here, the neighborhood ( mostly due to the slumlords and general poor economy) has turned really unappealing.
These are the last four sets of downstairs neighbors we've had:
- Large gaggle of poor art students. They threw parties every chance they got, complete with puking and possibly fornicating in our bushes and slamming the downstairs door 7,000 times a night. The cops were called more than once in their brief time here.
- White trashiest of them all: Smoked so much the smell trailed up to the third floor apartment we live in. It literally reaked like a bar floor in the entire building. Then they stole our mail, the Christmas present Adam got for me. A 2 minute check online showed us they really like to steal, A LOT. And were wanted by the police for it. They ripped off our dolt of a land lord and hit the road soon after. I did have fun taking another Amazon box and writing a note attached to a broken VHS tape that said " You are a thieving bitch, Merry Christmas" and leaving it in our mailbox for the lady to steal again, which she did almost instantly.
- Fighting family: These were the last ones, really weird. The woman absolutely hated me for whatever reason, I don't know. She was some sort of pajama wearing gangsta wannabe. Laundry somehow managed to be a teenage style fight with her every month. They would fight and scream and she'd stand outside and chain smoke, flicking her Marboro Lights all over the yard and in my flower pots. I'm surprised she survived the winter, because when the snow melted there were 7000,000 + cigarettes in the yard.
-The new ones are college boys. I have already found an empty package of Ramen noodles and a can of Busch Light in the yard in less than 24 hours. They also left the front door wide open all afternoon and left a bunch of their crap directly in front of our entryway, so I'd guesstimate the odds aren't good we'll be grilling with these rowdy kids anytime soon. I already felt like an old curmudgeon peering at them with one eye judgingly while they unpacked their cars last night. We have to get out of here before their bong smoke hits the air.
We are hardcore in the house hunt now, and it's hard not to want to settle for something when we want to move so badly. But we need to try and remember how big a commitment a house is and wait for something we both love.
So for now, we'll just be patient and make soup.
Potato Leek Soup
-6 peeled potatoes
-1 2 medium onions, chopped
-2 stalks celery, diced
-2 leeks, chopped
-5 cups vegetable broth
-1 T. parsley
-1 t. salt
-1/3 cup butter
-1 can evaporated milk
-2 bay leaves
-1 t. pepper
-1 cup chopped carrots
Directions: Combine all ingredients but milk and cook in crock pot low 8 hours or high 3-4 hours, until potatoes are soft. Makes 10 servings.
The creamy and subtle flavors of the broth and milk blend fantastically with the soft and mild flavors of the vegetables. This isn't a soup that assaults your taste buds, it wraps them in a nice warm fuzzy blanket.
With a good ole' grilled cheese, this makes a grand meal, and very simple to toss the stuff in the crockpot in the morning before work and come home to a week's worth of tasty soup! I've had it everyday this week, and it just keeps getting better. Enjoy!!
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