Soup.
Mmmmm. It's always good to have soup on a cold day!
Today I am making a bean and ham soup.
1 applegate farm ham (love this company!)
1 bag of mixed beans
1 kitchen basics broth (if you are allergic to corn you can't get the veggie stock! It has to be a meat broth)
4-5 cups water water
onion powder (or a small onion)
garlic powder
ground thyme
celery salt
Put it all in a crock pot (spices I normally do about a teaspoon of each but spice to your tastes) on high for the afternoon. It's yummy and super easy to make! Can't go wrong with something you can cook while you are not there!!!!
Showing posts with label Soup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soup. Show all posts
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Friday, April 2, 2010
Follow Up.
I never came back and told you how my soup or Anna's Banana Bread turned out.
Soup came out SUPER good! I felt like I should have more veggies so I raided my freezer and found bag of okra in there. So I added it. 1/2 a bag, Mmmmmm. Then about 30 minutes before I served the soup I added a box of rice. Super yummy BUT Next time I will only add 1/2 a box! I ended up with a LOT of very poofy rice! A WHOLE lot, but it was good. Sooooooo good. I did salt my bowl a little but the boys loved theirs just plain. (maybe next time more broth less water too just to make it extra flavorful). So some tweaking to do, but it was very good. And I ended up with feeding the whole family for dinner and then 4 ziplock backs of soup in my freezer. (I split them up into about 3 to 4 bowls worth in each bag so that I only thaw what we will eat in one sitting)
The Anna's Bread, It's a mixed review. Gabe LOVED it! LOVED LOVED LOVED IT! Link Liked it a lot. I didn't. It was just a very heavy bread (even for banana bread) and so the edges burned a little and got very tough and then the inside stayed mushy. :( But I must admit that it could have something to do with my oven. It's very new and tends to run a little hot sometimes, SOOOO I think I'm going to reserve my final opinion on this until we try it again at a lower temp. If nothing else the boys will eat it all. :)
Well now I know my followers won't die from curiosity of what happened with my food yesterday! LOL! It was great though when dinner time came and it was all done and all I had to do was put it in a bowl. I LOVE crock pots!
Soup came out SUPER good! I felt like I should have more veggies so I raided my freezer and found bag of okra in there. So I added it. 1/2 a bag, Mmmmmm. Then about 30 minutes before I served the soup I added a box of rice. Super yummy BUT Next time I will only add 1/2 a box! I ended up with a LOT of very poofy rice! A WHOLE lot, but it was good. Sooooooo good. I did salt my bowl a little but the boys loved theirs just plain. (maybe next time more broth less water too just to make it extra flavorful). So some tweaking to do, but it was very good. And I ended up with feeding the whole family for dinner and then 4 ziplock backs of soup in my freezer. (I split them up into about 3 to 4 bowls worth in each bag so that I only thaw what we will eat in one sitting)
The Anna's Bread, It's a mixed review. Gabe LOVED it! LOVED LOVED LOVED IT! Link Liked it a lot. I didn't. It was just a very heavy bread (even for banana bread) and so the edges burned a little and got very tough and then the inside stayed mushy. :( But I must admit that it could have something to do with my oven. It's very new and tends to run a little hot sometimes, SOOOO I think I'm going to reserve my final opinion on this until we try it again at a lower temp. If nothing else the boys will eat it all. :)
Well now I know my followers won't die from curiosity of what happened with my food yesterday! LOL! It was great though when dinner time came and it was all done and all I had to do was put it in a bowl. I LOVE crock pots!
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Soup Challenge
I've never made soup in my life. Sooo I figured why not. Seems simple enough. But of course I don't want to use a recipe. LMAO. So I found a company that does a thing of soup greens. Gourmet Kitchens. Carrots, celery, onions, potatoes, parsnips, leek, parsley and turnips. Not a ton. (I wish I had gotten 2.) But a fair amount. So I cut them all up and put them in the crock pot with Manischewitz chicken broth and 4 big cups of water. I have some precooked chicken that I'm gonna dice up and throw in too. Then about 15 minutes before we eat I'm gonna throw in rice noodles. :)
I put everything in the crock pot and turned it on low. (it's only 930 and we won't eat til 5 or 6). It already smells good.
We had a flood day before yesterday in our basement and so Tuesday was spent trying to stop that and clean up. Yesterday was just a try to recover day (we didn't stop til 330am wed.) and so today I am just TIRED! So it's kinda nice to know that at 9:30am I've already got breakfast (plain oat meal with 100% maple syrup) and dinner done. That's a nice feeling for sure. I'll be sure to let you all know how it turns out! My next thing I want to tackel is home made spagetti sauce and then a summer harvest soup. (I need spagetti sauce for it and I can't find any locally that Gabe can eat)
I put everything in the crock pot and turned it on low. (it's only 930 and we won't eat til 5 or 6). It already smells good.
We had a flood day before yesterday in our basement and so Tuesday was spent trying to stop that and clean up. Yesterday was just a try to recover day (we didn't stop til 330am wed.) and so today I am just TIRED! So it's kinda nice to know that at 9:30am I've already got breakfast (plain oat meal with 100% maple syrup) and dinner done. That's a nice feeling for sure. I'll be sure to let you all know how it turns out! My next thing I want to tackel is home made spagetti sauce and then a summer harvest soup. (I need spagetti sauce for it and I can't find any locally that Gabe can eat)
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