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Spicy Sweet Potato Ginger Soup

January 19, 2019 by Chris Leave a Comment

In the past I’ve been mostly a soup purchaser. I love soup but I had zero interested in learning how to make my own. I thought it was hard. Turns out I was wrong.

As long as you have butter you can be pretty sure it’ll taste like soup. Making it good that’s a different story.

I made a Cheddar ale soup a week ago. Turned out better than I expected. It was 50% recipe and 50% my own. Today I present a recipe I made up because I couldn’t find the one I was looking for. I couldn’t remember if I bookmarked it, saved it to a collection on Instagram, read it in a magazine. No, bother. I used what I had around and made really tasty soup.

First thing. prep your food.

Ingredients

1 Tbsp Red Chile Paste
2 tsp Ginger
1/2 Scallion minced
2-3 Cups of Chicken or Vegtable Stock
1 Cup Unsweetened Coconut Flavored Almond Milk
2 Large Sweet Potatoes Cubed
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper

Drop in the Red Chile Paste in a dry pan on medium heat. After a minute or two it’ll bubble and become very fragrant. This is the spicy part.
Once the chile Paste gets nice and hot. Drop in the butter and scallions. Bring up to medium high. Stir a bit to keep the scallions from burning and to mix in that paste with the butter. It’ll be a nice dark color.
Now add the cubed sweet potatoes and ginger. I used purple sweet potatoes. I thought they were ube’s but inside they were bright white so definitely not the variety common to the Philippines. Give it a quick stir so it mingles with the paste and butter for half a minute or so.
Add in the stock. I used chicken stock but vegetable would be perfect too. Pour in enough to cover the potatoes. Add salt and pepper
Bring to a boil and cook until the potatoes are tender. This will vary based on the volume and size of cubes but somewhere around 15 minutes
Once the potatoes are tender add in the milk. This will give it a bit of sweetness to balance the spice. Bring back to a boil then reduce to a simmer.
Use an immersion blender and combine ingredients. Simmer to get the desired thickness. Season to taste

Top with cream and croutons

Help Kitchen Visual Guides

March 26, 2018 by Chris Leave a Comment

Help Kitchen Visual Guides

Fire up the color printer because we have 16 of our favorite kitchen diagrams. We need these because we never have all the ingredients, always wonder if that’s still good to eat, and what is the best wine to pair with string cheese. In all seriousness, tape some of these up on the inside of your cabinets for a fast answer to simple kitchen questions.

1. Easy Soups

Hold up, you may not need to run to the store to pick up dinner. Here are 10 soups you can make combining an odd can of beans, the last veggies in your fridge and seasonings that may have expired.

2. Spice Pairings

Did you know you can use Caraway with Cottage cheese?

3. A Guide to Cooking and Baking Substitutions

This one is super useful. We have made entire recipes using only substitutions.

4. Cooking Methods

Disappointed the torch method can’t be used for Grilled Cheese.

5. Guide to Flavoring with Spices

Another spicy visualization.

6. Conversion Chart

For when you find a recipe on a British Blog… Or when you’re anywhere else in the world and need to know what the American’s are talking about.

7. Kitchen Volume Conversion Aid

When you need to turn the volume up in the kitchen…

8. Healthy Oil Cooking Guide

If you watch Food Network, you may not know you can’t use Olive Oil for everything.

9. The Onion Breakdown

This is helpful in some dishes but I normally ignore everything except the Red Onion bit.

10. Egg Substitutions

If I don’t have eggs, I normally have bananas. The PB substitution is mind-blowing.

11. How Much to Serve at a Party

Cupcake ratio seems a bit low.

12. Veggie Cooking Cheat Sheet

You can’t throw in all veggies at the same time and expect it to taste good.

13. Perfect Cookie

All look good to me, but 7,3,6,5,4,8,2,1

14. How to Store Your Groceries

Have you stored a peeled banana more than a day? I’d like to hear the story behind that.

15. Real Good Cheap Easy Food

Lots of good recipes and note the shopping list on the sides.

16. Wine & Cheese Pairing

Everyone knows Boursin and Gruner Veltliner pair well, but you may not know cheddar and merlot are BFF’s

Eggs – It’s What’s for Dinner

January 19, 2018 by Chris Leave a Comment

Dinner Eggs Recipes

Most families have pizza night or taco night, but no body has egg night. Recently I was at a farm to table restaurant and saw they have an Omelette of the day on the lunch menu. That day it was made with potatoes and chorizo and it looked beautiful. I make omelets everyday by 6 am but omelets would even be better at 6pm. The image of that beautiful omelet inspired me.

Eggs are cheap, easy and filling. They are digested slower than most foods you normally eat at night so you may make it to bed without pangs of hunger. Best of all it feels like you’re eating carbs

In the morning I tend to go with a simple, four-ingredient omelet with 5 whites and 2 whole; it takes all of 7 minutes and there’s no cleanup. At night when your taste buds are searching for more flavor, you can spice it up, dump some leftovers or go veggie crazy. There are no wrong answers.

Here are five eggcellent recipes to eggspire you. The best part is eggs will love you no matter how you vary the recipe.

All you need for survival is peppers and eggs.
C Dinner Eggs Recipes reamy Scrambled Egg Stuffed Bell Pepper with Veggies -Via FitMenCook

Easy Mediterranean Style Egg Casserole Recipe – via The Mediterranean Dish Egg Casserole Recipe for Brunch

Meal planning is a cinch. These taste decent cold so you can eat them on the go.

Mini Quiche with Sweet Potato Crust via Eating Well.

Mini Quiches with Sweet Potato Crust

This one is not as healthy as the others but your taste buds will thank you.

Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Breakfast Has – via Tasty

Tolkien said the most beautiful sounding phrase is cellar door, but I think it’s Huevos Rancheros. Via Serious Eats Quick and Easy Huevos Rancheros With Tomato-Chili Salsa Recipe

The Chemistry of Cookies – Ted Ed

December 21, 2017 by Chris Leave a Comment

The Chemistry of Cookies

‘Tis the season. Cookies are everywhere. They become a form of currency this time of the year. But why are they so good? There’s science behind what makes cookies so delectable and Ted Ed does a good job illustrating it.

8 Lo-Cal Snacks for your Netflix and Chill Nights

February 15, 2016 by Karen Leave a Comment

Healthy Home Snacks: The temperature may not be single digits where you live but the sun goes down early this time of year. Netflix and football tend to rule everybody’s viewing habits, especially on those cold days. Everyone tells you to not drink your calories or eat in front of the tv, but if there are 40 inches of snow outside and ten episodes of Narcos waiting, you need a plan.

Unless your trainer has you on an offseason bulking plan (lucky you) or putting on weight for a film role, you’re less active in winter and so you’ll need to choose your snacks wisely.

1. 1. Plain Popcorn. Skip the butter and try a mixture of seasonings and spices or even a hot sauce. If you want to get even more out of it, add some nutritional yeast, flax seed or spring on some PB2. You’ll burn many calories flossing later as well.
  2. Fruit – Berries, Grapes. In the summer frozen grapes are refreshing as well small pieces of frozen mangos.
  3. Veggies – Carrots and broccoli. Yawner, I know, try adding some greek yogurt to a ranch dressing mix to up the protein so you feel full longer.
  4. Roasted Chic Peas. Add everything you would to french fries – olive oil, pepper, Old Bay or salt and put them in the oven at 400 for about 45 minutes and it’s ready by episode 2.
  5. Nori – Hard to find a snack with as many nutrients than Nori and with fewer calories per sheet. Big plus, you can also wrap everything else on this list in it
  6. Sunflower seeds. Eat them plain or roast them; just season them as you would popcorn.
  7. Edamame – Not my favorite but they sell them in every store so someone must be eating them. There are a ton or recipes to help you get the taste right.
  8. Apples and PB – Not the lowest calorie choice, but not invented in a lab either. It helps to get those protein numbers up at the end of a long day. I’m sure they’ll genetically engineer a peanut apple in the future but until then we soldier on.

You heard some of our favorite low-calorie snacks. Do you have any can add to the list?