Dinner # 2

Every Veggie Soup & Cheddar Biscuits

Every Veggie Soup Recipe
4 cups of broth (whatever kind you have on hand, I had chicken)
1 garlic clove
half of a chopped onion
1 potato cut in small pieces
a can of tomato paste
1/2 cup of carrots (chopped)
1/2 cup of celery (chopped)
1/2 cup of corn
3 tomatoes (cut into large chunks)
1 can of white beans (drained)
Salt & Pepper to taste
1 tsp. Olive Oil

Saute your garlic & onion in olive oil in the bottom of your pan for 2 minutes.
Add carrots and celery to soften, about 5 minutes.
Add broth, beans, potato, tomatoes, corn & tomato paste.
Season to taste with salt & pepper.
I added 21 Season Salute from Trader Joe's to give it an extra kick, but the soup would be great without it.
Let it come to a boil.
Then turn the heat down and let it simmer for about an hour.
You know it's ready when your potatoes are soft when you poke them with a fork.

Cheddar Biscuits
I followed the recipe on my Bisquick box and added about a handful of cheese.
They were so good.

The verdict: Pass
This took up so many veggies that it made a huge dent. No wasted veggies for me!
And you can put any veggies you have on hand into the soup and it'll still be good.
We all loved it (including the duo) and of course the biscuits were gone in a flash.
Any bread with cheese on it in this house...doesn't last long.

:)

Dinner # 1

On our plates:
Cheesy chicken & salsa skillet
Recipe found here.
(Tip: The best thing about this website is the 3 ingredient list. Where you can list what ingredients you have and it pulls up recipes that include them. Genius!)


The verdict:
Pass
It was really easy to make.
The husband liked it. He said it was, "Good."
The down side: the duo didn't, they said it was too spicy.
My gringo babies don't have the buds for salsa.
Next time I'll use extra extra mild.

The Fridge

Helloooooo, Fridge!

It's time for me & you to have a lil' experiment.

And so here is my mission: To use all that you hold to feed my family.

Sounds easy enough right?

Well, you.are.wrong.

Half of the food we use.

and the other half, well, just gets funky.

OR I buy it to use in some fancy smancy recipe (hi, capers! you've been on my fridge door for awhile now...I know) and I never.use.you.again.

So here is my project for the next 7 days.

I am going to use all that my fridge holds, without restocking at the grocery store once!

(this of course, excludes drinks! Once milk or diet coke is gone in my house, there is gonna be a riot.)

It's a tall order.

I know. I'm scared.

But I have some tools to help.

And for the next 7 days I'm going to post my recipes.

And at the end of 7 days, we'll see how well I did.

We are all trying to skimp to save where we can.

So, wish me luck.

And if you try any of these recipes, let me know what you think!