creamy chicken soup

Today's recipes:

• Eating leftover creamy chicken soup for lunch. Saute carrots, celery, bacon, chicken, onion, and garlic. Sprinkle flour on top & stir.
• Add broth to cover, simmer gently. Add broken angel hair. Stir in cream.

Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter

Today's recipes:

• Last night, made jambalaya for dinner. Started by chopping onion, bell pepper, tomatoes, chili, cooked turkey sausage, garlic, and chicken.
• Sauté onion & chicken. Add rice, bell pepper, chile, 1 tsp. thyme & 1 (or more) tsp. paprika. Cook until rice translucent.
• Add chicken stock, sausage, & tomatoes. Simmer until rice is cooked through. Add peeled shrimp and/or peas a couple minutes before serving.

Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter

back from vacation

I should've mentioned I was going. Took a nice long summer vacation with the family. Recipes should recommence this week.

Today's recipes:

• As promised last weekend, polenta for dinner tonight.
• Combine 1 qt water, 1 cup coarse polenta, 2 Tbsp butter or oil, fresh ground pepper in oven-proof pan. Bake at 350 F for 40 minutes.
• Stir in 1-2 oz. shredded cheese (Asiago, Parmesan, Romano, Provolone -- your favorite). Bake 5 more minutes.

Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter

Today's recipes:

• Time now to go make couscous salsa to take to the solstice party tonight. Adapted from Mark Miller's Great Salsa Cookbook.
• Toast 3/4 tsp each ground cayenne & coriander, & 1-1/2 tsp. cumin. Add to 1 c couscous & 1 c boiling water. Let sit covered 5 minutes.
• Add roasted, peeled & diced: tomato, 2 bell peppers & 1 to 2 poblano peppers. Add salt, pepper, & chopped cilantro to taste. Serve w/ chips.
• I like Tostitos multigrain tortilla chips, both with this & just to snack on.
• Time to go roast . . .
• Salsa made. Realized looking at twitter-recipes.blogspot.com blog that I do lots of couscous. This next week, I'll have to do easy polenta.

Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter

Pork chops with couscous stuffing

Today's recipes:

• Couscous stuffing: Mix together 1 c. couscous, 1 c. milk, diced onion, diced red bell pepper, minced garlic, 1 Tbsp(ish) paprika
• Stuffed pork chop: cut pocket in side of chops, fill with stuffing of choice. Add 1/4" liquid to bottom of pan. Bake at 350 1 to 1-1/4 hrs.
• Diced celery is good in the stuffing, too.

Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter

chicken not-carbonara

Today's recipes:

• Chicken not-carbonara tonight: saute cubed chicken and finely diced bacon. Sprinkle w/grated cheese (Parmesan, Romano, or asiago).
• Add in chopped tomatoes, and frozen green beans. Stir in sour cream (or heavy cream, if you prefer.) Serve warm.

Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter