Soup with Green Pepper!

Sunday I made supper. I do that sometimes.
Here's what I made:

• soup
  
• salad
  
• salmon patties
  
• potatoes
  
• peas

I didn't use any recipes. Here's how I made the soup:

• chop up onion, celery, green pepper, and fry
  
• chop up garlic, and add to frying vegetables
  
• add water
  
• slice carrots and put them in the water
  
• add barley
  
• add salt and pepper, and find other fun spices, and add randomly: oregano, cumin, cayenne pepper, etc
  
• add a can of romano beans
  
• boil soup for a while
  
• add thin egg noodles
  

  My kids bug me that I make the same soup every week. Of course this is patently untrue. The soup they think I make every week is chickpea soup, which has chickpeas, tomatoes, and onions. So now I can't put tomatoes and beans into the same soup ever, or I get daddy you made the same soup again!
  

  This time I had this scintillating talk with my 17 year old daughter:
  

  You put GREEN PEPPER in the soup. Daddy you are so FUNNY!
  

  So what. There are soup recipes with green pepper
  

  They are FUNNY recipes!
  

  They liked the soup.
  

  I have been told in no uncertain terms not to put celery into salad. The salad is therefore:
  

  • green leaf lettuce
    
  • 
    grape tomatoes
    
  • 
    green pepper
    
  • 
    English cucumber
    
  
  They like the salmon patties too. Here's the recipe:
  
  
  
  • 2 cans of salmon
    
  • 3 eggs
    
  • Salt
    
  • Pepper
    
  • Garlic powder
    
  • Onion powder
    
  • Something else
    
  • A couple spoonfuls of hot vegetable sauce, which has been sitting in the fridge for months, and which really isn't so hot after all
    
  • A bit of barbecue sauce
    
  • Fry
    

  The potatoes are just potatoes and the peas are just peas. My wife said I want mashed potatoes. She said, make the potatoes and I will mash some. She said make lots. I made 15 potatoes. I think we ate about 9. I think she mashed one.
  The other thing I get is you ALWAYS make salmon patties (or tuna patties, as the case may be). Or course I only make one or the other every two months or so, but it doesn't matter. I could make once every ten years, and I would still get you ALWAYS make etc etc.
  

  Next Sunday I think I will make bean casserole. Let them complain about that.