Showing posts with label crock pot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crock pot. Show all posts

Friday, April 19, 2013

Banana walnut salad

 I don't miss the speed of fast food, I miss the convenience.

We are remodeling our two bedroom house to give each of our three children their own room, or berth as we're referring to them so as to invoke a cozy, nautical image rather than focus on the all too obvious miniscule size each will be.

We also just adopted a new puppy.
I'll share some puppy recipes soon!!

Needless to say it's a bit hectic around our place.

And still my family expects to eat.
EVERY day.
Have I mentioned they've been on spring break for three weeks with all this going on?
Right, so, hectic. 

The ingredients not stowed in the basement during construction led to this meal:

Banana Walnut Salad

Lettuce
Sprouts
Bananas
Walnuts, Toasted
Grape seed oil and Cabernet vinegar

Served with crockpot chicken and margarita pizza.

Not bad considering the current stage of remodeling ~ new puppy chaos we are in right now!!

For the pizza I drizzled olive oil on a Trader Joe's whole wheat pizza crust, sliced mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil and baked at 550 until the cheese started to brown.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Chicken Soup from Stock

This is where it gets fun for me. 

Hopefully you enjoyed the slow cooker chicken from the other day. 

But wait there's more. (My infomercial impression.)

After  dinner clean the meat off the bone and store. 

Throw all the chicken parts back into the slow cooker (yea for not having to clean the slow cooker right now!!)
Add a bottle of almond champagne (I love you Jess, but I could not stomach the almond champagne but I did find a good use for it :)
and top off with water, set it to slow and long and leave it for the night. 

The next morning strain and refrigerate.

When you're ready; that night or within the week it's time to make chicken soup. 

Heat stock in a large pot with the chicken you cleaned off the bone and a cup of corn. 

Prepare toppings.

Have each person put desired toppings in bowl and ladle hot soup over. 

Soup
Stock from slow cooker chicken
left over chicken from slow cooker chicken
1 cup corn

Toppings
Avocado, sliced
Cheese, cheddar and mozzarella mixed
Flax Tortilla Chips 
Red Onion Chopped
Cucumber Chopped
Hot Sauce


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