I slept until 6:30 this morning! To most of you, that probably sounds ridiculous and not like sleeping in at all, but when my average wake up time this month has been 3 or 4 am, I'm pretty durn proud of myself. This also means I didn't get in my usual 2 hours of walking around the basement listening to my Inman review, but I'm not gonna complain. It's butterflies and rainbows today :)
It was kind of chilly this morning when I chose not to workout and attempt (aka, fell asleep) to read the review notes and I had a hankering for soup. I figured I would just take the can of tomato soup in the pantry from eons ago (more on that) and just add some pasta and veggies and have it all prepped and ready for lunch. Luckily, I checked the expiration date (remember that whole canned food lasts for a year?) and it was expired TWO years ago. Bah humbug. So that meant plan B, make my own soup. Haha, plan B in normal brain logic would have been to think of something else to make. But I had this huge thing of cherry tomatoes from Costco that were ready to call it quits and there was no lettuce or cheese to make salad, so I figured I'd try my hand at soup. I'd made potato and leek soup once (yum yum!) but that was with a broth. Luckily, s4 had left behind some flavor packets (which I didn't realize until after I put a packet in, that it too was expired, but only by almost a year...so only sort of going to make everyone sick...). Anyone else have a Vitamix? I'm so happy the day we decided to get M&D one, that meant I got to blend up everything to wonderful creamy dreamy smoothness.
Back to cooking, M&D came home from golf and decided they had to get yardwork done in the middle of the day, aka, I hauled outside and cut the grass (thanks for the vitamin D intake). By the time we got back inside, we were sweating like whatever animal sweats a lot (b/c I've been told pigs do not sweat like that) and soup was not going to happen until later. Since the Vitamix is so wonderful I whipped up some healthy ice cream. I don't know if it's b/c the "ice cream" is green but this tastes just like the melon bar popsicles we used to get as kids at the Korean grocery store. M agrees with me, so it's not just my crazy head.
Once the ice cream was out of the way and we were all showered and a bit cooler (summer time always means sweating after showers...I'm looking forward to fall and pumpkin everything!) it was finally time for soup!
This soup is definitely cobbled together from all the odds and ends hanging around in the kitchen, so I'm not going to have a recipe for you guys. But if you ever have the random assortment of veggies that I did here's kind of a breakdown of how this soup came about:
Dice 1/4 medium onion and saute in a large pot with olive oil and garlic until translucent.
Add about 2 pints tomatoes (I had cherry tomatoes, don't worry about having to peel them) and 1 cup water. Bring to a boil then transfer contents to a blender (Vitamix!) and blend until smooth.
Pour contents back into the pot and add black pepper,salt, vegetables of your choice (I had leftover roasted cauliflower and corn and frozen mixed greens) + 1 cup milk + 1 flavor packet (I had vegetable Swanson)
Bring pot to a boil.
Meanwhile, boil some pasta in a separate pot and rinse in cold water. When you're ready for soup, add to the amount of soup you will eat (or else your noodles will soak up all the liquid and become bulgy like chef boyarde ones).
As I'm always worried about how much salt I'm adding, I did minimal salt and topped the soup with parmesan cheese instead. Much tastier :) And aren't the Seattle Space Noodle pastas so cute?? It's been a long time coming for those to get cooked up! This was a great recipe to use up some of the ingredients in the house. And now I have an idea for dinner tonight (or maybe lunch tomorrow...depends on how full we all are from lunch, haha). Happy cooking~
It was kind of chilly this morning when I chose not to workout and attempt (aka, fell asleep) to read the review notes and I had a hankering for soup. I figured I would just take the can of tomato soup in the pantry from eons ago (more on that) and just add some pasta and veggies and have it all prepped and ready for lunch. Luckily, I checked the expiration date (remember that whole canned food lasts for a year?) and it was expired TWO years ago. Bah humbug. So that meant plan B, make my own soup. Haha, plan B in normal brain logic would have been to think of something else to make. But I had this huge thing of cherry tomatoes from Costco that were ready to call it quits and there was no lettuce or cheese to make salad, so I figured I'd try my hand at soup. I'd made potato and leek soup once (yum yum!) but that was with a broth. Luckily, s4 had left behind some flavor packets (which I didn't realize until after I put a packet in, that it too was expired, but only by almost a year...so only sort of going to make everyone sick...). Anyone else have a Vitamix? I'm so happy the day we decided to get M&D one, that meant I got to blend up everything to wonderful creamy dreamy smoothness.
Dice 1/4 medium onion and saute in a large pot with olive oil and garlic until translucent.
Add about 2 pints tomatoes (I had cherry tomatoes, don't worry about having to peel them) and 1 cup water. Bring to a boil then transfer contents to a blender (Vitamix!) and blend until smooth.
Pour contents back into the pot and add black pepper,salt, vegetables of your choice (I had leftover roasted cauliflower and corn and frozen mixed greens) + 1 cup milk + 1 flavor packet (I had vegetable Swanson)
Bring pot to a boil.
Meanwhile, boil some pasta in a separate pot and rinse in cold water. When you're ready for soup, add to the amount of soup you will eat (or else your noodles will soak up all the liquid and become bulgy like chef boyarde ones).
As I'm always worried about how much salt I'm adding, I did minimal salt and topped the soup with parmesan cheese instead. Much tastier :) And aren't the Seattle Space Noodle pastas so cute?? It's been a long time coming for those to get cooked up! This was a great recipe to use up some of the ingredients in the house. And now I have an idea for dinner tonight (or maybe lunch tomorrow...depends on how full we all are from lunch, haha). Happy cooking~
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