Well…just finished up the first part of the cooking day and now it’s break time for a few minutes…I am going to brag a little about my ham soup…I have this recipe down and it appears that it doesn’t matter what the cooking method is….I normally do it in my big stew pot on the stove top and it takes most of the day…but today, I used my instant pot and it was only a total of an hour or so including the prep work for the veggies…oh, and an extra hour to get the ham to fall off the bones by pressure cooking it…and it didn’t take a lot of work like the old method did…just loaded the pot up and walked away…I thought the 8 quarts was smaller than my stew pot but I ended up with three two quart containers in the freezer and half of another one in the fridge so I guess it’s the same…and that’s cool…oh, I did figure out how to make a smoker for my stove top and smoked two fillets of salmon that Tom gave me…they came out pretty darn good, too, and I can’t wait to have some on a bagel with coffee in the morning…and I still have to make stir fry chicken for dinner later…or I may wait until tomorrow and just have a couple of pieces of pizza instead….I do know I need to eat more since two bowls of soup is just not enough…maybe a couple of apples this afternoon? Who knows?