Chicken Noodle Soup

I make my soup many different ways. Sometimes I use chicken thighs, chicken breast, just plain broth or even a carcass. Today I had a leftover carcass so here is a recipe made from a carcass.

*Heat your pan really hot with olive oil ( or whatever you cook with)

*Roughly shop onion (you can leave the skin on if you like) and drop in your hot pan

* Break your carcass up and drop in a pot with the onion

*Brown it real well until you get all that juice on the bottom of the pot that you can scrape

*Pour water while scraping the bottom of the pan.

*Bring to a boil and add roughly chopped carrots and celery

* Simmer for at least an hour. If you have time, simmer for 3 hours.

*Herbs can be added like thyme, rosemary, parsley, or even lemon

***After the broth is done, scoop all the veggies and carcass out of the pot. Peel the skin off of the carrots and cut them into bite size piece. Pull any leftover chicken off the bone and set aside.

I sometimes saute my vegetables but on a lazy day, I just throw everything in a pot

1. Add 2 stalks of chopped celery. Simmer until a bit tender


2. Add 1 tsp. of cumin, 1 tsp. paprika, salt and pepper


3. Throw in a bag of small brussel sprouts and egg noodles


4. After veggies are done, add your diced chicken and carrots

Peanut Butter Smoothie

1 Cup of cold milk
1 banana
2 Tbps of peanut butter
***Blend and Serve.
You can add flaxseed , wheat germ, chocolate syrup... to this.

Teriyaki Meatballs

I was browsing through Albertsons thinking like always, what's for dinner. I looked at the deli to get ideas and saw a sign and a plate that said Teriyaki Meatballs. I picked up a bottle of teriyaki sauce and could not wait to get home to google the recipe. I came across this
It was made with turkey but I used beef. I had no carrots or green onions as we have not done our major shopping yet. My kids loved it. Very kid friendly recipe. Other than not adding carrots and green onion I followed it exactly. I served a plate of steamed rice, layer of steamed or sauteed cabbage and topped it off with the meatballs.

Apple Toast

My version of Apple Toast: I sprinkled brown sugar on the butter, layed the thinly sliced apples on the toast, and sprinkled more brown sugar on the apples, topped off with cinnamon.

Shrimp Scampi

This Shrimp Scampi was so easy and delicious. The only changes I made was omited the wine and I added sliced avacado on top. You can add any vegetable to this dish. I love zucchini so I sauteed up some zucchini and cherry tomatoes to add in with this dish.

Banana Crumb Muffin

These Banana Muffins got hundreds of reviews. The only change I made was adding a handful of oatmeal to the streusel topping.

Bread

Coming soon.......