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Potato Sausage Broccoli Soup & Menu Planning

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Potato Sausage Broccoli soupPotato Sausage Soup no milk.   I love making soup I make it all the time.  it is my go to meal if there is the slights but of rain or cold on the horizon pair it with some homemade bread,  check out my favorite recipes here.  I finds soups to stretch the budget when pay check are lean and they can make any meal go far.   This week I had Polana Polish fresh sausage left so I decided to make a lets see what we have in the fridge soups.

Potato Sausage soup with no milk

Prep Cook Time 1 hour Serves 12

  • 5 large potatoes pealed and diced
  • 1-2 lb of sausage (beef, pork I used Polana Fresh Sausage)
  • 1 lb of carrots pealed and diced
  • 6 celery stalks  cleaned and diced (no tops)
  • 2 cups of broccoli crowns fresh
  • 1 -2 med sized onions
  • 1 gallon of water
  • 1 tablespoon for Better Than Bouillon Organic Chicken Base
  • 1 teaspoon of cumin
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 1 teaspoon of pepper
  • 1/4 cup of rice flour (for gluten free) or 1/4 reg flour (this is optional)
  • 1/8 cup of hot sauce
  1. Start to cooking your Mirepoix (aka onions, carrots, celery) season with salt.
  2. Add your sausage on top of Mirepoix,  Cook till cooked and slightly brown, ( don’t burn Mirepoix)
  3. Removed link allow to cook sausage to cool, cut into bite size pieces and reserved to side
  4. Add water, potatoes, spices, bullion  allow to cook- till potatoes are fork tender
  5. To thicken the soup,  you can allow the potatoes to cook,  till they start to break down they will make a thick soup (longer cook time 1 hour)
  6. OR Remove a cup or 2 of the broth and add the flour ,  stir till it becomes a water paste.. then slowly add it back to the soup (cook for another 20 minutes)
  7. Once the soup is almost done  5 minutes add Broccoli  and sausage back in.  (add hot sauce if you like heat)

Printable version of the recipe here Potato_Sausage_Broccoli_soup_001

Monday: Potato sausage soup Leftovers with fresh bread

Tuesday: Chicken Enchladas

Wednesday:  Blue Ribbon Chilli

Thursday: Fried Rices (via my husband)

Friday: BBQ Pizza with Gouda and Apples

 

What to learn to freeze you Mirepoix  so it speeds up your cooking time  check out my post Freezing Mirepoix

Check out my review of The New Artisan Bread  in 5 minutes a day recipe cookbook

 Liking up with Organizing junkie Menu Plan Monday

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Cooking, Giveaways

How to get your husband to make dinner – Hillshire Farm Giveaway

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cheesy rice and hillshire farms sausageHow to get your husband to make dinner with Hillshire Farms Sausage

I ask my husband to make dinner, because I was going out to my Moms group.  Now my husband grew up in a casserole family,  which is means when he does cook most of his meals are made in one pot / dish.   He was making dinner for himself and 2 kids.

So he looks in the freezer and finds the 2 packages Hillshire Farms Sausages.  Note: I am suppose to create a recipe with them, write a blog post and then do a giveaway.  At the time I was still working  on the post in my head.

Well he was so helpful, he took the Hillshire farms and made dinner.. (there goes my blog post..)  When I called to check he said he was using both packages..

I said  “honey.. there for a tasty tues blog post”..

He said “Too late.. they are defrosted and I am using them”

He said “I will take pictures for your post”…(he is not me with a camera.. But I love him because he tried.. he could have cleaned of the stove before the pictures)

sausage in a package

Husbands Cheese Rice and Sausage Dinner

Serves 8 people : He was making dinner for himself and 2 kids.

He wanted to add a can of tomatoes but worried the kids would not eaten it. (My advice ADD the Tomatoes or serve with a tomatoes) or add any vegetable broccoli would have been yummy.. What is it with men and veggies or lack their of?

I say to myself   ” Just be happy he is cooking, and don’t criticize”

His directions

  1. Make rice as directed- 2 cups of rice with 4 cups of  water-  cook thoroughly
  2. Mix rice,  (veggies if you choose) and soup in large glass pan
  3. cook 15 minutes
  4. Lay Hillshire Farm Sausage on top
  5. cook 10 minutes  sprinkle with cheese

cheese rice

I was very yummy! I has some when I returned home and we had left overs for the next few days.   The sausage was amazing,  I would love to use it in a Potato and Sausage soup.. (now I think of a recipe- me slapping head)

The Hillshire Farm sausage  has No artificial Color, Flavor or by products.

Hillshire Farm Giveaway

So want your man to cook?   Have some Hillshire Farm on hand so your hubby can make dinner.  Here is your chance to win 3 coupons for package of Hillshire farm Gourmet sausage. (that is 3 meats or 1 1/2 depending who is cooking. (est. value $18 ) Giveaway ends : Oct 9th Midnight est.

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Disclosure:  I did receive coupons for this blog post 2 to keep and 3 to giveaway.

Cooking, Travel

My Food at Blogher12 Tasty Tuesday

buffetSo all while at Blogher there is a alot of food .. samples to try. The thing is,  you go all day eating and  nibbling on this or that. Never really filling up.  So here is my food at Blogher:

Expo floor- I was not there much but thanks to Hillshire farmsI make myself a lovely morning snack.  I got to create my own recipe  and they cooked it up for me. #HFRecipes

rice and sausage

Trumpeting Media- Green Drink, I was not sure what it was from the 4 season .. but not my cup of green .. I did drink it.  Pepperidge  farm cookies they have come in handy after the late night

Social Luxe- they had these amazing goat cheese things .. and the young man who passed them out was easy enough ont he eyes.  I have to say I have enjoyed the UnReal Candy–  there tag is un junked candy,  since I have been home we have really enjoyedt and being a diabetic the lower glucemic index helps.picture of candy

Iconix Party I have to say an amazing buffet spread pictured at top of post by the Sheraton.. seriously the poke tuna was amazing it was hard to tear myself away.  I made many new friends at near the tasting spoons.tuna poke

Sweet Suite you had me at strawberries.. They are the best food ever invented.

Lands end party had the cutest mini BLT   with blt stamped on them then they had a chef show us how to make amazing kids lunches.

I have to say we got in a good service rut and visited the same restaurant 3 times while there.  Teds Montana Grill – the Avalon burger was amazing Blue cheese,bacon,onions, beef.  with a side of green beans and fries under $20 in NYC and the best service I have ever hand in New York. Yea I ate the burger without take a picture I was very hungry from nibbling.  The service was exceptional and lovely and helps to keep  going.key lime pie

So Blogher is not know for large meals but what I saw was creative.  I avoid the 4500 women eating lunch and we went else where.   What did you eat?

 

Cooking

Sausage and Onions #TastyTuesday

Sausage and Onions  So in my family no one likes cooked green , yellow, or red peppers.  Which can make Sausage and peppers a hard meal to make, but I love the sausage flavor.  So I omit the peppers and make sausage onions without the slime peppers.  I serve it as a soup, on noodles and traditional on a roll

Sausage and Onions

  • 3 Onions- quartered and sliced
  • 1 clove of garlic sliced
  • 1 -2 lb of sausage  Links (for soup you can also use loose sausage)
  • 1 lb of mushrooms sliced
  • 1 bottle of beer
  • 1 can of whole tomatoes (I prefer red pack tomatoes)
  • 1 can of broth Chicken or vegetable
  • Add black pepper ¼ tsp
  • 2 tbls of hot sauce (I like Franks) Optional
  • Bacon slices (optional)
  1. 1 brown sausage, and bacon  in pot , remove and drain- leave dropping in pot
  2. Add to pot  chopped onions, garlic sauté, mushrooms,  till golden
  3. Add tomatoes
  4. Beer  and one can of broth, pepper and hot sauce
  5. Put in crock pot scraping all the goodness droppings off the bottom)  cook for 4 hours
  6. Now you can add more both and make it a sausage soup, of serve on noodles or rolls

Variations:

  • add the peppers back in ,
  • sausage soup add potatoes,
  • add kale at end of cooking 20 before finished

I do the soup because I don’t want the carbs from the noodles of the bread.

Here is a printable version is this recipe Sausage and Onions

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