Posts tagged celery

Chicken Salad

I made Mark Bittman’s “Quickest Chicken Stock” over the weekend, which left me with 12 cups of chicken stock and 4 pounds of cooked chicken. I used some of the stock in split pea soup and froze the rest for later. The chicken got turned into chicken salad!

I’m personally not a fan of chicken salad, but [...]

Split Pea Soup

I attempted a split pea soup nearly a year ago with awful results. There wasn’t enough liquid and I didn’t have an immersion blender. It was disastrous, but my friends choked it down.
Now, I have a new recipe, an immersion blender, and pretty green soup! Friends, you can come back now…

Recipe link: Split Pea Soup (I [...]

Ground Beef Barbecue

We wanted to try something a little different than the typical can of barbecue mixture and pound of ground beef for our barbecue sandwiches. I found this recipe in one of the many recipe files that I keep on my computer. The recipe calls for using a slow cooker and letting the meat cook for several hours but we [...]

Roasted Tomato and Basil Soup

The IFA told me make this soup, so I did.

And I only messed it up a little bit by putting in the fresh basil before simmering instead of after. (I fished it out after an hour or so of thinking about fishing it out.) Also, I don’t have an immersion blender (Santa, if you’re reading [...]