Calling all soup recipes
First of all, the cauliflower soup was amazing. D approved it, and I loved it too. I won’t be making it too often because of the cream/milk content, but for a winter dinner it was awesome. I wonder if I can find a way to make it healthier?
I want to find a good healthy soup recipe. My friend Jenn makes a butternut squash soup, and it sounds pretty healthy. I might try that in a couple weeks.
I could also try to adapt my vegetarian chili recipe to make it more of a soup consistency. It’s fantastic as a chili, and I think it would make a good soup as well.
If you have a great, healthy soup recipe, then please share it with me in the comments! I’m loving soup right now!
The best part about making soup last night? I don’t have to cook all weekend!
I’m going to vacuum the floors today and do some laundry. I want to have a relaxing day after such a busy day yesterday. Then, tonight we will probably watch a movie or play games!
Have a great weekend!
Cauliflower Soup for Dinner
I’m procrastinating. I should be in the shower by now. I have to leave my house in an hour.
But even though I’m procrastinating, I’m excited about today! I am meeting my friend Jenn and we are going to work on/look at the children’s room she has put together at her church. This girl is creative – she even made sock puppets for the kids to play with!
Then, as usual on Thursday, I am going to volunteer at the bookstore. I look forward to Thursdays for exactly this reason. I love volunteering!
Tonight I am going to make cauliflower soup for dinner. It sounds weird, but it’s a pioneer woman recipe, and I trust her recipes! I think it will be fantastic! (I will be sure to recap and let you know.)
This month’s grocery budget is going so incredibly well. I’ve started couponing and matching them to the sale ads. I usually end up going to Kroger and Walgreens, but I sometimes stop at Randall’s as well. This week I only spent $36.81 on a week’s worth of groceries (mainly produce) because I have a lot of food in the pantry right now. I have about $85 left for the last week of the month. I am going to look for some good fish to buy next week – perhaps tuna, but probably salmon. OOOOH, mahi mahi would be good too….
I saved $14 at the grocery store this week. It feels so good to be getting stuff we love AND saving money. For example, I bought two packages of ground turkey (a total of 2.5 lbs) for $4 yesterday! It was on sale for 2/$5 and a had a coupon for $1 off. Normally, one package costs nearly $4 and lasts for two meals for us. So, this week I bought 4 meals worth of meat for $4. It amazes me how much I save just by paying attention to the sales and buying the Sunday paper.
Last week I came home with FREE milk, FREE bread and FREE eggs! Milk is kind of expensive these days (I usually see it for $1.99 – $2.99.), so when it’s free that’s pretty exciting.
Well, I better stop procrastinating. I have to leave in 45 minutes! Have an awesome day everyone!
A quick update
It’s been a couple weeks since I felt like updating. There isn’t anything spectacular going on around here.
Houston has been very cold lately, so much so that I have turned on the heater during the daytime. I hope it begins to warm up just a tad in the next few days.
I joined a gym last week. I have only worked out twice, but the plan is to go three time a week. I am still trying to work out how to fit it in to my routine.
We attended an event called Midnight Madness at church last Friday. It was for all leaders/potential leaders in Sunday school. We went to a technology workshop where the speaker discussed how to use technology to benefit the class as a whole. The workshop itself was a bust because our class is already on the ‘cutting edge,’ but I did learn about a website called EchoPrayer. The website is a tool to help manage your prayer lists. Pretty nifty if you ask me!
Yesterday I had Indian food for the first time. It was awesome! I think I can best describe it as a cultural experience in my mouth. It was so incredibly tasty! I have to thank my friend Jenn for guiding the experience! (Otherwise I would have had no idea what dishes to try!)
Today, I am baking a cake for a birthday party tomorrow night, and I am volunteering this afternoon. It should be a good day. I just wish it was the weekend already! I love the weekends because I get to spend the days with D – he is incredible and so much fun to hang out with!
I hope you all are doing well! Have a great weekend!
Flourless Cookie Recipe
I found a recipe for Amazing Peanut Butter Cookies on Little Birdie Secrets today, tweaked it, and started baking! These cookies are amazing. You should definitely try them out!
Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup milk chocolate chips
Mix ingredients together and bake on a cookie sheet in a 350 degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Makes 24 cookies.
Tips:
- Form cookies with wet hands. This makes it easier to work with the stickyness of the dough.
- Let cookies cool on baking sheet for 3 to 5 minutes before moving to the cooling rack.
