Posts Tagged ‘food’
Chunky Tomato Soup Recipe
My Friend Correen has managed to make a wonderful Chunky tomato Soup recipe. It is extra fun because she took a well known and well loved soup recipe from a restaurant and successfully downsized the recipe to a more manageable home portions. And it is delicious!! Tomato Soup is my Favorite Soup and having such a delicious easy cooking recipe right on hand is the best!
Homemade Chunky tomato Soup
Here is what she had to say:
While vacationing in Sunriver, Oregon my mom had lunch at The Village Bar and Grill with her friends. The tomato soup that mom had with her sandwich was so delicious that she asked the waitress for the recipe. Evidently the restaurant had this request a number of times because they had the recipe printed out and ready to hand out to customers. Mom was surprised by the simple ingredients in this soup, she thought for sure it was going to be more involved. Knowing that I love tomato soup, my mom has passed on the recipe to me
Get the rest of this article and chunky tomato soup recipe here.
Black Eyed Peas – What’s Not To Love
I have loved black eyed peas since I was young. My mother made them all the time. Sometimes with cut onion slices and cornbread like she used to serve red beans also known as Pinto beans.
And is there any more healthy food on the planet? These days they bother you about fiber so much it almost seems you just can’t get enough. Well beans are going to solve that problem for you. Excellent source of fiber.
But really back to the taste, I am very happy with black eyed peas in particular. I found a great recipe for Hoppin’ John, which as you will see is just some fancied up black eyed peas. Have a look and of course this is an easy cooking recipe as well.
Hoppin' John
This was the year I fell in love with black eyed peas. (The food. Already loved the band.) They have a wonderful flavor, almost smoky, even without bacon or ham. Earlier this last summer we put them in a salad with feta and spinach. So so good.
The dish that black eyed peas are most famous for is Hoppin’ John. No idea where the name came from. And depending on where you are from you might not even call it that, but simply black eyed peas and rice. Hoppin’ John is one of those classic Southern dishes that come with as many versions, stories and flavors as there are cooks. At its core, however, Hoppin’ John is rice, black-eyed peas (or field peas), smoked pork, and onions. Black eyed peas are supposed to bring you luck if you eat them on New Year’s Day, and it is traditionally eaten with collard greens.
So, for this new year, I offer you a hot plate of Hoppin’ John. May we all enjoy its good luck. Happy New Year!
A Fun Way To Write About Food is to Make a Squidoo Lens
Who Knew it would be a new found love of mine. I knew I loved writing about food But I didn’t realize it could also be profitable.
I have been a member of Squidoo for about three years now. I have always written about nursing or animals. But I only recently figured out that I could write about food.
Squidoo is a free website that helps you make your own websites, called lenses, by putting together modules. You can choose which modules you want to use and you can write about pretty much anything. And you get paid for your work.
Well Squidoo just introduced a new module called the recipe module. It was like a light-bulb going off over my head. Wow!! I love that. So I wrote two lenses about food, more specifically desserts. Have a look. The first one is called Quick And Easy Dessert Recipes and it is actually my best performing lens.
The other lens is called Edge Brownie Pan- A Brownie Baker’s Solution This lens is actually a marketing lens trying to get folks to pay attention to this very cool brownie pan that I saw on the Oprah Show.
Anyway, it is very exciting to me and I wanted to share. I hope you’ll have a look and if you like please leave a comment and let me know you were there.
Also if you are not with Squidoo already, here is my Squidoo referral link. I would appreciate your signing up with me.
A Great Cookie Dough Recipe Can Just Make You Smile
I ask you…Who of us doesn’t love cookies? I find them to be comforting and entertaining. A great snack for company or card playing, and almost always an easy cooking recipe. And a great cookie dough recipe is the best kind of cookie out there. Something fun in the kitchen to grab when you need a snack. They can be healthy or crazy, I just love cookies. And you don’t have to spend hours slaving away in the kitchen to be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
I have tons of ideas for cookies, in fact I am eating a cookie as I type this. My mom used to just walk into the kitchen a make up a batch of cookies. Right out of her head, no recipe! She was just that gifted in the kitchen. I still need a recipe for baking. But then I usually put my own spin on it. I love to doctor up whatever recipe I am working with and make it more of a “Susan recipe”. I love cooking and I love cookies.
A friend of mine, Beverly Mucha, who is the Winona Cooking examiner over at Examiner.com, is always sharing remarkable and always free recipes with us all. And this week she has a really great one it also fits into the category of easy cooking recipes and it is a cookie recipe! They are called Thumbprint Cookies and they are made from scratch, and talk about a great cookie dough recipe, this is it. And they are the old fashioned kind that has the chocolate kiss in the center. Can you beat that? I hope you’ll enjoy this recipe as much as I do. And let Beverly know you visited.
