Steps to making your very own smoky potato and broccoli soup (modified from this recipe):
1) Peel potatoes and cut up broccoli and onion.
2) Cut 2 slices of bacon into tiny chunks.
3) Pour 1 tbsp of canola oil into a pot and start cooking the bacon and onion.
4) Get taken aback by how fizzy the bacon is and turn down the heat.
5) Toss in 2 tbsp of flour and mix around.
6) Realize that you bought vegetable SOUP instead of vegetable STOCK and utter some impolite words in several languages.
7) Take the pot off the heat and run down to the grocery store.
8) Buy vegetable stock and almost run over someone in your haste.
9) Pour in some stock and pray that the flour hasn't utterly congealed onto the pan.
10) Huzzah! It seems to be working. Bring it up to a boil and toss in the veggies.
11) Cook for 10 minutes, adding in more stock from time to time.
12) Scream "SAVE ME, JEEBUS!" when the stove catches on fire from the bacon fat.
13) Get a giant pot lid and a box of baking soda to smother the flames just in case it happens again.
14) Ladle some of the hot broth into a measuring cup with milk.
15) Add salt and pepper to the milk-broth mixture.
16) Add the milk-broth mixture into the pot. Turn heat off when everything is cooked through.
17) Blend the hell out of the soup with your spanking new SmartStick blender.
18) Yomph it down with a ginormous hunk of crusty sourdough bread 2 hours after you started cooking.
It was yummy and worth the effort, I thought.
Steps to making your own tomato-raspberry frozen yogurt:
1) Get a tomato. Blend the hell out of it.
2) Get a handful of frozen raspberries. Blend the hell out them.
3) Add 4 giant spoonfuls of vanilla yogurt. Blend the hell out of everything.
I added a tomato, because it mellows out the tartness of the raspberries and the fibre from tomatoes are always nice and healthy.
2 comments:
Yum, yum, yum. Though it should properly be called tomato-raspberry frogurt.
woman with handheld blender OUT OF CONTROL!!!
(tho, to be fair, you've almost inspired me to take my own handheld blender out of retirement. almost.)
((actually, i pulled it out the other day to mix up some pudding (because i was too lazy to take out the real mixer) and MAN OH MAN did i make a mess everywhere. handle your handheld with care.))
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