perfect strawberries, homemade tater tots

Finally a successful trip to the grocery. A truly thought out list, though often too impossible to create, makes life so much easier. The "sale fruit" ended up being winter strawberries that were perfectly sweet all the way through. Not one tart berry in the entire container.

A day off and an opportune story about a boy nicknamed Tater produced the greasy pile of homemade tater tots. They were one hundred percent more wonderful than the store bought variety. If I can find a way to make them without the house reeking of oil (not to mention cutting out some of the fat from a diet perspective) I will make them all the time. They were just as easy to make as mashed potatoes.

Also, I finally attempted to make tomato soup. Better tasting than canned, just as easy, and much fewer terrible ingredients. Another successful Joy of Cooking recipe.