Today I was going to make Italian wedding soup to go along with my crockpot
Chicken and potatoes that I prepared with onion, sweet peppers and chicken
breast. Mixing 1/4 cup of oil, 1/4 cup of white wine. With chopped up garlic
cloves, basil, oregano, salt and pepper. Which I poured over everything in
the crockpot.
But back to the soup.
Chopped up a onion, a stick of celery, leaves and all. Add a little olive
oil to a pot and start softening them up a bit with some basil, oregano, and
salt and pepper, with about 4 cloves of garlic. Next I found we had no
regular size carrots. But did find some baby size carrot, and they sure
would do. Cut them into 3/8 inch pieces and add them to the pot. As the were
warming up a little, I cut off a slice of cabbage, about 1/2 inch thick and
chopped the cabbage up before adding it to the pot. Mix and heated every
thing thru and than cooled it down with 14 1/2 ounce can of chicken
broth, plus a can of water. Found I didn't have the be be size pasta, oh
well I did have some barley, and that would have to do. 1/4 cup of barley
went into the pot too. Now that thing were simmering along, I spotted a
bunch of kale, and we all know kale is good for you. So I washed the kale,
sliced it up and added some olive oil to a skillet. sauté the kale in the
oil with a little salt, you guessed it into the pot the kale when too.
Simmered it a while. and turned it off. When it came time for dinner, heated
the soup up. Cut up a pear and added a little brown sugar and cinnamon to
the pear for dessert.
First the soup.
Than the chicken
and last the pears for dessert.
Not bad for not having a thing on hand.
RJ
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