Quick Cooking Part Two
When you come home at the end of the day it is easy to take one look at your kitchen and waves the white flag of surrender and pick up the phone to get take out.
But that need not be the case.
With a few pantry staples it is easy to make a completely satisfying meal in a matter of minutes.
Soup is a quick cooking life saver.
Submitted for Sweetnick's ARF/5-A-Day Tuesday event.
What do you get when you put left over butternut squash, corn, roasted potatoes and turkey all together and top it with a wee dollop of cranberry sauce?
That’s right! SOUP!
Ok that was probably not the first thing you thought of. Come to think of it, wasn’t the first thing I thought of either but never mind!
It is rare that I get to play with thanksgivings leftovers! Mostly because Thanksgivings butts up right against the start of lent; which means anything on the table that has touched meat becomes taboo.
I think my father enjoys this part of the year the most. Being Jewish he blithely eats the leftovers while the rest of us are eating vegetarian.
That is why this year one of the things I am thankful for is a little reprieve between Thanksgivings and lent; so that I could spend some quality time with my leftovers.
Submited for Sweetnick’s AFR/5-a day Tuesday event.
This is the first weekend in almost a month that I had the opportunity to spend some time cooking. Even so, I had only a very small window in which to make something.
Of course with temperatures dipping into the 60’s during the night (what passes for cold in southern California) my mind turned to stew. Having satisfied my mushroom obsession, my mind moved to something different. Something earthy.
And with blueberry season almost at an end, I knew exactly what I wanted to make.
It all started innocently enough. It invariably does. The inimitable winter soup maven posted a recipe for an incredible sounding wild mushroom soup.
I am not normally a soup person, but evenings have been getting chill. Though the days may still linger in the high 80’s the night time temperatures drop quickly, especially with the coastal breeze.
Night creeps upon just a little sooner and something changes in the air. There is a crispness to the air that beckons one to the warm glow of a kitchen perfumed with the long cooking scents of soup.
