{"id":344,"date":"2010-09-16T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2010-09-16T19:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T19:27:00","slug":"an-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"An Invention:)"},"content":{"rendered":"
I like to invent meals as I go and only now and then do I remember to write down what I did. This is a favorite recent idea of mine.<\/span><\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
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Green and Red Soup with Sour Dough Croutons<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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5 cloves of garlic<\/span><\/p>\n

1 large onion<\/span><\/p>\n

2 cups chopped celery<\/span><\/p>\n

2 Tbsps<\/span> grape seed oil<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

8 cups chicken or veggie broth<\/span><\/p>\n

Salt to taste<\/span><\/p>\n

1 tsp turmeric<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4 cups <\/span>broke up broccoli
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1\/2 -1 cup of red quinoa<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1 cup chopped parsley<\/span><\/p>\n

2 cups fresh spinach<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3 cups of small salsa meatballs<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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  • Smash and chop up the garlic, cut up the onion and celery as well and cook till soft in the grape seed oil. <\/span><\/li>\n
  • Once onion mix is nice and soft add the broth and warm it up. (tip- if you don’t have enough broth, I realised too late I only had 4 cups of chicken broth, add water to make up the rest and just add more turmeric<\/span> and salt to give it the right color and taste of a salty broth) <\/span><\/li>\n
  • Once broth is hot add the broccoli and let it come to a boil. <\/span><\/li>\n
  • When it is boiling add your quinoa<\/span>. You will know it is done when the grain germ starts to float around. <\/span><\/li>\n
  • Once the grain is cooked and the broccoli soft but not mushy, add the parsley and spinach. <\/span><\/li>\n
  • When the spinach has wilted throw in the precooked meatballs and cook till they are warm. <\/span><\/li>\n
  • Serve with croutons on top.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Salsa Meatballs are pretty simple. Mix 2 lbs of ground meat with 1\/2 a cup of salsa, 1 egg and enough wheat germ and oat bran to make it the right consistency<\/span> to mold. Roll them and roast them at 400 for about 8 minutes each side. The smaller you make them for the soup the better.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Sour Dough Croutons are simple too. I had some old sour dough so I chopped it up and tossed it in olive oil and Italian<\/span> seasonings. I then spread them out on a cookie pan and roasted till golden and crispy, turning over half way through so they where evenly cooked.<\/span><\/p>\n

    I had both the croutons and the meatballs<\/span> made ahead and frozen<\/span> so it was pretty easy to wipe this up tonight.<\/span><\/p>\n

    TTFN<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    I like to invent meals as I go and only now and then do I remember to write down what I did. This is a favorite recent idea of mine. Green and Red Soup with Sour Dough Croutons 5 cloves of garlic 1 large onion 2 cups chopped celery 2 Tbsps grape seed oil 8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}