Friday, July 31, 2009

adventures in food

I'm not gonna lie, I like food. I have recently come to terms with the fact that I probably enjoy cooking as well and I cook like my mom (which is a good thing). My mom can make something out of nothing. It's amazing. My favorite was always Cleaning the Refrigerator Soup...the recipe is quite simple, take the almost spoiled contents of the fridge, and put them in the soup pot. Ok, there's a little more to it than that, but not much.

Recently I adapted this recipe to Soup Made With Whatever I Could Find Plus An Onion From My Dad's House (he and Paula happened to be out of town and I liberated half an onion from their fridge when I went to check the mail). Chicken, black beans, onion, a can of diced tomatoes, carrots, some spices, and orzo. I put the ingredients into the crock pot and ignored, ignored it for many hours, and viola! Soup!

Then there was the pizza, I made my own whole wheat crust and put pesto, mozzarella, caramelized onions, sausage, tomatoes, roasted red peppers, roasted yellow squash, and feta cheese on top. Amazing!

Last, but certainly not least is the peanut butter/chocolate popcorn I made the other night. Pop one bag of light butter microwave popcorn and spread on a cookie sheet. Melt 1/2 cup of PB chips with one tablespoon of butter, pour over popcorn. Do the same with 1/2 cup of chocolate chips. Let cool. EAT! It was so good...I had to try extremely hard not to eat the whole batch...John would have been sad if I didn't save him a taste.

1 comment:

Finnskimo said...

You know your mom lives across the street from me right?! Like I can throw a rock from my living room window and hit her living room window...

And about once every week or more, she comes over with a dish...and its always good. And I have to NOT eat it. But, she does also come over and take the almost-spoiled-stuff out of my fridge too! Which is good, cause they'd go to waste. I'm not about to make me any kale soup! haha...I don't even know what Kale is!

Anyway...you should come to our house. Dean cooks every meat and potato dish ever...with everything from the land! Shoot, if we just shot our caribou with a bow and arrow and cut it up with a jade knife and roasted it over the open fire, we'd almost be REAL Eskimo's! hehehahahah...