What could you use if you didn't have wine and dont keep any in the house?Lenore
-----Original Message----- From: Cookinginthedark [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of RJ Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 5:53 PM To: citd Subject: [CnD] Making things do 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 _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
