What's your favorite thing to drink when it's cold outside?
Hmmm...red wine, irish coffee, bailiey's and coffee, spiked cider, dark beer, bailiey's and hot chocolate, hot tea. (this really should have been a voxhunt).
]]>What's your favorite thing to drink when it's cold outside?
Hmmm...red wine, irish coffee, bailiey's and coffee, spiked cider, dark beer, bailiey's and hot chocolate, hot tea. (this really should have been a voxhunt).
]]>Course, i generally make it about once a week. Today's was beef, but last week's was chicken. It's quite tasty, cheap, lasts all week for meals and really low fat/low salt (I don't use the low sodium broth, I don't think it has a lot of flavor) but it's still less than any canned soup has. This has also been posted to Bookishbiker's blog where she has another recipe for chicken soup that sounds fabu.
Chicken Soup
3 breasts of chicken, skinned and cut into bite sized
chunks. (You can also substitute chicken "tenders" though they tend to
have too much silver skin and tendon in them) I have no idea how many
pounds, I generally eyeball.
olive oil for browning
garlic powder
1 yellow onion cut into bite sized chunks
4-6 cloves of garlic, rough chopped
1 jalapeño pepper, rough chopped
2
large bags of mixed frozen veggies of your choice (I generally use the
broccoli, cauliflower, carrot mix or the corn, peas, carrots mix.)
1 large can red beans, mostly drained
2 boxes of chicken broth
Heat
a large soup pot over medium high heat and add olive oil. Put the
garlic powder to taste into the oil and let it heat up. Add the chicken
and let it brown a bit, stirring frequently. Add onions, garlic and
peppers and cook until onions are barely tender (about 5 mins). Add the
vegetables and the beans. Stir frequently until they're warmed through
and have released some of the liquid. Add 1/4 of 1 box of chicken broth
to deglaze the bottom of the pot by scraping the good bits off into the
broth. Add the rest of the broth (it might take less than the 2 full
boxes, it's your call) and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionaly.
At this point, I generally shut the stove off and let it sit for
about an hour before separating into single serving containers and
putting in the fridge. I've also been known to put cooked rice or
leftover plain pasta into this one right after I put the stock in.
Beef Vegetable
1 package (I have no idea how much) beef for stir fry. Cut into bite size chunks.
olive oil for browning
garlic powder to taste
red pepper powder to taste
paprika powder to taste
1 red onion cut into bite sized chunks
6-8 cloves of garlic, rough chopped
1 jalapeño pepper, rough chopped
2 large bags of mixed frozen veggies of your choice (I generally use
the broccoli, cauliflower, carrot mix or the corn, peas, carrots mix.)
1 large can northern white beans, mostly drained
1 can diced tomatoes with green chilis
1/2 bottle of dark beer
2 boxes of beef broth
Generally,
follow the same instructions as for the chicken soup above. However, I
generally reduce about a cup of the beef broth and the beer in a
separate pan and deglaze with that. Tends to cut the alcohol flavor of
the beer and concentrates part of the beef stock. I add the can of
tomatoes to that to heat through before I put it in with the rest of
the ingredients and then pour the rest of the broth in.
What is your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table?
Submitted by Kadeeae.
Depends who I'm with. ;)
Oh, wait, you were talking about the food? Oh, in that case, I love turkey with a really good gravy.
But, honestly? I'm not a fan of Thanksgiving and would rather just skip the holiday completely. More on that in another post though.
]]>what makes it different from a hamburger or salsbury steak? I'm watching Rachael Ray make mini meatloaves by cooking them in a skillet instead of the oven. I'm not sure if they still qualify as meatloaf.
It's pouring here. I love it. Lots of thunder and lightning. Course, the dogs really need to go out and won't go out in the rain. Looking at the photos, I can't imagine why. ;)
I'm feeling better from a bout of what I'm pretty sure is stomach flu. And am a bit antsy sitting in the house. So I've been taking photos, watching TV and reading. woo hoo for an exciting day!
I just had a Lee's Hoagie for dinner. Turkey & provolone with oil & onions (they didn't remember the hot peppers, oh well, it's a long commute back to get them).
Your first question should be how did I get a Lee's Hoagie - a Philadelphia-only chain of hoagie places - in Florida? Well, thanks to a co-worker who went to Philadelphia for the weekend and asked me what I wanted him to bring back, I got a hoagie. And it was good - not as good as completely fresh, but still an Amaroso roll, and the special oil that only Lee's uses. Mmmmmm.
I rarely drink soda. Actually, I drink soda once in a blue moon. But I had a really crappy afternoon at work and at linner, I needed something really bad for me. So I had a Pepsi. Now the carbonation is repeating on me and the caffeine is going to keep me up all night.
Sigh.