Canned food is the gift of the gods!

Today, I made an excellent tomato soup, using canned chopped Italian tomatoes, canned pureed tomatoes and canned tomato juice. Adding some leftover cooking cream, an pinch of salt, a pinch of pepper, some sweeteners, some lemon juice and a pinch of paprika for the taste. The whole was based on half a tablespoon flour, half a tablespoon sunflower oil and half a tablespoon pureed onions from the tube and seasoned with parsley. Which I also bought cut and dried and ready to use.

Real gourmets would die from outrage, I know. But it cut down cooking time to half an hour, which meant that I had time left to make a sorry excuse of a Russian Creme Torte, using cream powder sold in pre-packaged form and Granny's idiot proof sponge cake. It has probably nothing to do with the original, as I didn't check an accurate recipe and thus left out the candied fruits and raisins, but since we aren't great fans of those, I think we'll be quite happy with the dumbed-down mini version.

There'll be a pic tomorrow; I'm just too ashamed to put it into the same entry from where you you can go to the real item. *g*

Other than that, I've finished re-reading "A Murder is Announced", translated half a page, took Mum to church and performed the final touches (aka decoration) on six Russian dolls. Oh, and I printed out some sheet music, since choir life will re-start with a vengeance on Monday (with the Oldies) and Tuesday (with the main choir), respectively.