About Me

I love food and I love cooking. I am not a gourmet cook, and I can be intimidated by multi step crazy ingredient recipes that take hours to make! I love animals which has lead me to a plant based diet which makes me feel better. I believe you should make food that taste good and is good for you. I also believe that part of healthy eating is enjoying the process from start to finish. The enjoyment in creating your food I feels comes through in the taste. I hoping with this blog you will find recipes that you can make and enjoy if you’re a vegetarian, a meat eater in the mood for a meatless dish, or just some new ideas for your home menu. I will try to keep the recipes simple with whole healthy and easily accessible ingredients. I look forward to sharing with you my cooking adventures (and sometimes misadventures!) and I welcome your feedback and suggestions!!

Monday, January 10, 2011

Mmmm Mmmm Minstrone

I got stuck at work a little late tonight and have been craving this all day....
so worth it!!

I adore soup-  I'd eat it every single day.  I also love cooking soup because it's next to impossible to screw up (except when I was in college there were some epic fails back then).  I also like that there are very few rules to making soup. Only 1 really saute onions and garlic first.

So this is my super easy awesomely tasty Minestrone, allow yourself to make adjustments based on what you like and what you have on hand-  I really wish I had zucchini but I didn't the end result was still light and delicious!

Ingredients:

1 small onion chopped
3 cloves garlic minced
1 red pepper chopped
1/2 green onion chopped
1 cup carrots chopped
1 cup mushroom (I used little button mushrooms halved but use what ever mushroom you would like)
1 cup broccoli include stems!  stems are delicious and often get discarded, peel them and use them!!
1/2 cup peas (frozen)
1/4 edamame (frozen)
1 can diced tomatoes
1 can red kidney beans (drained and rinsed)
1 cup whole wheat pasta (I used macaroni noodles)
1 container of vegetable broth (I use Campbell's Organic Vegetarian Vegetable, I like it because I know what the ingredient are not crazy scientific made in a lab names)
salt and pepper to taste

some ingredients all chopped up-  I almost forgot the carrots!!


Wal-mart brand beans I'm a cheapo!!


Directions:

saute onions and garlic until translucent
add other veggies (except edamame and peas) saute for a another 2 mins

add diced tomatoes (whole can incl juices)


looking so so good already!!!

add broth and canned beans

now sim-simma!!!

simmer for 15- 20 mins til veg start to get soft

you may find you need to add a couple of cups of water- I did

salt and pepper that bad boy up!

add pasta,  boil for 3-5 mins

add edamame and peas and bring back to boil.

STOP!!!  you don't want mushy pasta!

your done! :)

Now be awesome like me and make a kick ass sand which to go with it!!

put in a bowl, and garnish with green onions or some parm cheese- completely optional!  I used some green onions because they're so pretty!!








my sky high veggie sand which was:
spinach
cucumber
tomato
broccoli sprouts
mushrooms
pickle
cheese
on a Swiss multi grain DEEEE-LICIOUS!

OK so this recipe isn't intricate of full of crazy flavours and spices, its really light simple and fresh and the flavours of the produce really shine!
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