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Showing posts with label healthy recipe. Show all posts

Saturday, 4 November 2017

Fall Vegetable Soup

Fall Vegetable Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

1 tbsp. olive oil
1 squash, peeled and diced (Acorn or similar)
2 sweet potatoes, peeled and diced
1 yellow onion, peeled and diced
1 clove garlic, peeled and diced
1 small tomato, chopped
1 tsp. curry powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. black pepper
1 tbsp. thyme
1 liter chicken broth
1/4 cup heavy cream

Instructions:

Heat a large saucepan over medium-high heat.

Once heated, add the olive oil, squash, sweet potato and onion to the pan

Cook for 5 - 7 minutes or until beginning to brown and then add the garlic and tomato

Stir well and then add the all of the spices, continue to cook an additional 2 minutes

Pour the chicken broth over the vegetables and bring to a boil

Continue to cook until the vegetables are soft and the liquid has reduced by half (approx. 20 minutes)

Remove from heat and allow to cool for 5 minutes

Add the heavy cream and blend until smooth

Serve immediately garnished with fresh herbs.

Recipe yields 4 generous servings. Total prep/cook time should not exceed 1 hour.


Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Macaroni and beef recipe

Macaroni and beef has got to be one of my favorite childhood comfort foods.  Perfect in a big bowl, while I'm curling up on the couch watching a movie, on Sunday afternoon.

With my plant based diet I have been coming up with all kinds of vegan alternatives for my favorite foods. This one is a goodie, but please try it for yourself and let me know what you think.

Ingredients:
1 white onion
1 quarter sweet pepper (I used yellow)
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 package of Yves Italian veggie ground round
1 tbsp. Crushed red pepper
1 tbsp. Oregano
1 can tomato pasta
1 jar strained tomatoes

Instructions: