Showing posts with label kale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kale. Show all posts

Monday, November 4, 2013

Sausage Kale Soup: Quick and Easy {Gluten Free}

I have eaten it. I have loved it. I needed to make it!

I googled the above recipe name, perused the various recipes, and came up with this winner.

My mom stopped by in rush hour traffic to try it, DaveBee wants it to enter our weekly rotation, and there is ONE small bowl left over.  This is a MUST make this week! Check it out:


Sausage Kale Soup

Ingredients
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 Yellow Onion chopped
10 Small Potatoes chopped to about 1/2 inch pieces
2 - 32 oz. Boxes of Broth (chicken or vegetable, gluten free)
5-6 Italian Sausages (uncooked and gluten free)
1 Head of Kale chopped (or 3/4 bag of Trader Joe's organic cleaned and cut kale)
Red Pepper Flakes
Salt to taste

Directions
Saute 2/3 of chopped onion in olive oil at bottom of a dutch oven (can use a soup pot too!) on low-medium heat for about 5 minutes.


Add broth and potatoes.  Bring to boil then turn down to simmer.

Add red pepper flakes to pot.  Start light and you can always add more later if you want more of a kick.


While dutch oven simmers and soften potatoes, saute the rest of the onions and cook sausage in a separate frying pan.  When sausage is cooked, cut into 1/2 inch pieces.

Add sausage and contents of frying pan (optional) to the pot.

Add chopped kale.  Add salt and red pepper flakes to taste.


Stir it up and simmer until dinner time!!

So, go and make it.  Tell me your variations. And impress your loved ones. 



Friday, August 2, 2013

Smoothies: Beating the Heat


The Bear, The Bird and I have been experimenting with smoothies to get us through these HOT NorCal summers.  We just had 5 days over 100 degrees!

Here are a few recipes that are winners.  OK, they have all been winners because of the crazy amounts of fruit in them. Also, the kids dig anything that makes a loud noise!

Avo-Fruit
Ice
Banana
Strawberry
Blueberry
Peach
Avocado
Orange Juice

Carrot-Orange
Ice
Carrots
Banana
Blueberry
Orange Juice

I bought kale today... I can't wait to get the kids into it!

What is the weirdest thing you have put in a smoothie?