Month: December 2019

Slow Cooker Vegetarian Minestrone Soup – Sweet and Savory Meals

 

Slow Cooker Vegetarian Minestrone Soup – Sweet and Savory Meals

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🥬 Root vegetable soup. 12/6/19

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On Monday for our belated Thanksgiving dinner we made mashed rutabagas. The rutabaga that we bought was massive, one of those waxed ones that we rarely see here on the west coast. It was delicious but we had a lot left over. I used it in a root vegetable soup for lunch today.

The recipe calls for a chopped up onion and then one cup each of diced butternut squash, rutabaga, carrots, Granny Smith apple, and sweet potato. I did not have a sweet potato but I did have my leftover mashed rutabaga, a delicata squash, the onion, carrots, and a Honeycrisp apple. You are supposed to start with a stick of butter so I splurged and put in a tablespoon. I used a quart of vegetable stock as the cooking liquid. When everything was soft I used a stick blender to whiz it up, added some more salt, an…

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Vietnamese (sweet and) sour soup with prawn. 12/14/19

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Making this dish was quite an adventure when we prepared it in Ho Chi Minh City during a cooking class. It was also quite an adventure preparing it at home. There are a lot of ingredients and some are not available in your local grocery store. So John and I ventured out to our local Asian supermarket, Ranch 99. Even there we did not find everything we needed and had to improvise. This may be due to the fact that we did not know where to look or maybe the name was different. But in the end we made a fairly accurate tasting soup. Here is the recipe given to us by the Saigon Cooking School –

We had to substitute celery for elephant ear and cilantro for the herbs. Here is the mise en place. Once the cooking starts it moves quickly and it is good to have everything…

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Blackened Red Snapper w/ Cut Green Beans, Brown and Wild Rice, and Baked Garlic Loaf Bread

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Today’s Menu: Blackened Red Snapper w/ Cut Green Beans, Brown and Wild Rice, and Baked Garlic Loaf Bread

To start my morning off I toasted a Thomas Light English Muffin, lightly fried a couple of Johnsonville Turkey Breakfast Sausage Links, and had a cup of Bigelow Decaf Green Tea. Excellent way to start the day! Cloudy with passing rain showers, 47 degrees for a high. I was able to rake the side yard s before it started raining. Went to post office and bank later on. For Dinner tonight I prepared a Blackened Red Snapper w/ Cut Green Beans, Brown and Wild Rice, and Baked Garlic Loaf Bread.

While at Meijer the other day I purchased a Red Snapper Fillet that they had on sale in their Seafood Department. I also purchased a Walleye Fillet, that I froze, and some Cooked Shrimp that was also on sale. The Red Snapper…

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Baked Pacific Cod w/ Long Grain and Wild Rice and Baked Garlic Oval Loaf Bread

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Today’s Menu: Baked Pacific Cod w/ Long Grain and Wild Rice and Baked Garlic Oval Loaf Bread

For Breakfast this morning I fried a couple of Johnsonville Turkey Breakfast Sausage Links. These are fresh Sausage Links, a new product. They fried up great and tasted just as good! Johnsonville has a full line of Turkey Sausage Products, love them all! I also made some Simply Potatoes Shredded Hash Browns and made a cup of Bigelow Decaf Green Tea. Good way to start a Sunday Morning. I went to Kroger up the road to their Seafood Dept. I wanted some Fish for Dinner. We have one of those late Summer Hot August Day out there today! 98 degrees, sunny and very humid. I’m still not 100%, allergies still bothering me. So not a lot going on again. For Dinner tonight I prepared a Baked Pacific Cod w/ Long Grain and Wild…

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Baked Salmon w/ Long Grain and Wild Rice and Whole Baby Carrots

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Today’s Menu: Baked Salmon w/ Long Grain and Wild Rice and Whole Baby Carrots


For Breakfast this morning it was Hash Browns, Smoked Turkey Sausage, Toast, and Decaf Green Tea. I had went tobaked-salmon-w-wild-and-long-grain-rice-and-whole-baby-carrots-007 Meijer and they finally had the Simply Potatoes Shredded Hash Browns back in stock! It had been a few weeks since any store had them in stock. So I prepared the Hash Browns and then I prepared a 1/2 Sausage link of the Butterball Hardwood Smoked Turkey Sausage. Added a slice of toasted Healthy Life Whole Grain Bread and a cup of Bigelow Decaf Green Tea, and that’s a Breakfast! Big change in the weather again! 50 degrees for a high with rain on and off all day, beats in the teens and snow! So with not a lot going on outside I did some cleaning on the inside. I cleaned and straightened the pantry and the…

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Baked Salmon w/ Whole Grain Brown and Wild Rice

My Meals are on Wheels

Today’s Menu: Baked Salmon w/ Whole Grain Brown and Wild Rice

For Breakfast this morning I prepared some Simply Potatoes Shredded Hash Browns, heated up some Kroger Diced Ham, and had a cup of Bigelow Decaf Green Tea. I made a bed of the Hash Browns in a bowl and sprinkled some Sargento Reduced Fat Sharp Cheddar Cheese. Next I put the Diced Ham over top the Hash Browns. Also had a cup of Bigelow Decaf Green Tea. We ended up getting about 3 inches of snow overnight. It caused some bad roads overnight but most of it was melted by late afternoon off the roads. Cloudy and rain later in the day, high of 37 degrees. More bad weather due overnight. Not much going on today. Did a few jobs around the house. For Dinner tonight I prepared a Baked Salmon w/ Whole Grain Brown and Wild Rice.

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