Tag: soup

Turkey Pastrami and White Bean Soup

Ingredients:

1/2 lb Turkey Pastrami (sliced to 10 or thickest cut) diced into cubes

3 cans Great Northern beans

1/2 sweet onion diced

2 carrots diced

1 celery stalk diced

3 garlic cloves chopped

1/2 bundle Kale sliced

2 chili’s *for spice*

1/4 cup white wine

1 tablespoon thyme

1 tablespoon fennel seed

2 tablespoons chicken bouillon

1/4 cup almond milk

1 teaspoon ground cloves

3 tablespoon cajun seasoning

1 tablespoon sea salt

1 tablespoon black pepper

Palm oil

Equipment: Small stock pot

On medium heat, sautee onions, carrots, garlic, celery in fennel, thyme, chilis, cloves, salt, pepper and 1 tablespoon cajun seasoning in palm oil. Add 1/4 cup water and stir. Then add in Pastrami with white wine and continue about 5 minutes.

Note: the reddish color comes from the palm oil

Take off the stove and fill with water, stir in drained beans, and chicken boullion. Continue to stir and let boil an hour. Add kale and let boil another hour on medium heat.

Pour in almond milk and 2 tablespoons of cajun seasoning. Let simmer on low for 10 mins. Taste to make sure you dont need anymore salt or pepper. It should look creamy like this when you are finished.

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Coconut Curry Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

Small pack of chicken wings

1 1/2 can of coconut milk

3 tablespoons chopped garlic

2 stalks lemongrass chopped

2 tablespoons curry powder

1 tablespoon turmeric

1 teaspoon fish sauce

2 bay leaves

3 star anise

4 cloves

1/2 cup soy sauce

1 sheet Dashi kombu

1 onion

1 tomato quartered

1 green pepper thinly sliced

1 half bundle Thai basil

2 dried chili peppers

3 tablespoons chicken bouillon

sea salt

black pepper

Udon noodles

Mash up garlic, chili peppers, star anise and cloves into a paste.

Place the chicken on medium heat in olive oil. Chop the onion in large sections and saute it, the paste and lemongrass with the chicken. Sprinkle salt and pepper. Brown up the chicken.

Fill stock pot with water. Add tomato, green pepper, kombu, and bay leaves. Pour in soy sauce. Season with turmeric, curry powder, chicken bouillon, sea salt and pepper.

Let it boil for an hour on medium heat. Then add in coconut milk, fish sauce and Thai basil. You may need to add more water too. Let the soup boil for another hour. I added an additional spoonful of chili paste for extra heat. Taste to make sure the salt and pepper is to your preference.

Separately make Udon noodles and combine your bowl.

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Corned Beef and Cabbage Stew

Ingredients:

2.5 lbs of corned beef sliced

1 head of cabbage sliced

3 red potatoes cubed

2 yellow onions sliced

3 carrots sliced

3 cups beef broth

1/2 cup red wine

1 can tomato paste

1 tablespoon caraway seed

2 tablespoons turmeric

1 tablespoon rosemary

1 tablespoon thyme

1 tablespoon red pepper powder

1/3 cup of vinegar

1 bay leaf

2 star anise

4 cloves garlic chopped

vegetable oil

sea salt

lemon pepper seasoning

black pepper

water

Equipment: Dutch Oven

*I ended up having to buy my corned beef from the neighborhood deli so I asked them slice it thick. Then I sliced it again into strips when I got home*

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. On medium heat saute garlic, onions, carrots, sea salt, pepper, thyme, caraway seed and rosemary in vegetable oil. You will use the same dutch oven to do this.

Then combine corned beef and cabbage in the pot. Pour in beef broth, wine, vinegar and tomato paste. Cover with water and stir. Drop in a bay leaf and star anise. Add turmeric and red pepper powder.

Bake a maximum of 1.5 hours until potatoes tender. Remove from oven and stir occasionally and taste the broth to make sure seasoning is where you want it. Sprinkle in sea salt, pepper, and lemon pepper to taste. You can serve with rice or on its own.

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Beef and Cannellini Bean Soup

Ingredients:

1 beef steak

2 cans of Cannellini Beans

1 carrot diced

1/4 an onion chopped

1 potato diced

1 tablespoon minced garlic

1/2 a Serrano pepper chopped

1/4 cup red wine

1 tablespoon Rick’s Hot & Spicy All Purpose Seasoning (Cajun)

Thyme

Paprika

1 bay leaf

Sea salt

Black pepper

2 dashes Cayenne pepper

Vegetable oil

Equipment: Medium saucepan

Questions I sometimes face…

What do you do when you have 1 steak just sitting there but you don’t want to enjoy it by yourself?

Answer: Make a soup and have additional servings.

Saute the vegetables in vegetable oil, garlic, with a little sea salt and pepper

Slice the beef thin and add it to the veggies.

Once it begins to cook through add about 1/4 cup of water to create your beef broth. Sprinkle in paprika, thyme, bay leaf and cayenne pepper. I had some cheap red wine on deck so I put about 1/4 cup of it in too. 🤣

Once the beef has browned, add the Cannellini beans with their juice, cajun seasoning and the potatoes. Let simmer on medium high heat for 30 mins. Stir to ensure nothing sticks to the bottom periodically. Add water here and there so the beans don’t cook down.

Taste and add if needed sea salt and pepper.

Leftovers go in the fridge and my boys I’m sure will have at it… 😁🤣🤣

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Fish Stew

So this was my first try at making a fish stew. Now I’ve heard rumors about it won’t be a good fish stew without having shellfish and the like in it. I feel that this is false. I think that you can actually make a very good fish stew without having unclean meats in it. I set out to prove my points. This time I decided to definitely bring out the big guns and by the big guns I mean spices that are just out of this world. They can seriously can turn a cup of poop into I don’t know a great mousse. Wait… What??

Wow… I just got the visual on that one but you get what I mean. LOL.

So I decided to let the food do the talking. Let’s get these fresh vegetables popping, a great meaty fish, and power spices like anise and cumin to have a unique flavor.

Ingredients:

32 ozs of Pacific whiting fillets sliced in 1 inch cubes

2 cans of chicken broth

Sea salt and pepper to taste

2 tablespoons of paprika

2 cans of stewed tomatoes

1 teaspoon of cumin

1 onion chopped

1 leek sliced

2 bay leaves

8 cloves of garlic chopped

8 red potatoes chopped 1 inch cubes

1 green pepper chopped

3 star anise

1 jalapeño sliced

2 packs of Goya Sazon

Water 3/4 filled in a stock pot

Now one of the best things about this recipe is the fact that once you throw everything in the pot you are pretty much done!! Go have a glass of wine and sit down some where. The most work of this recipe is honestly just the prepping and chopping the vegetables and fish. You set the heat on medium-high. Combine all the ingredients in a stock pot and then let it cook for about an hour and a half. As the meal is cooking make sure to taste it! You may make some adjustments adding a little more. I tasted and stirred periodically. Just added a little salt and pepper while I was watching Netflix. 😂

Warning:

*** DO NOT remove the skin or you will have shredded pieces of fish all throughout the stew. ***

FYI: Goya is my freaking favorite. I would have added fresh cilantro but I ran out. Sorry didn’t feel like driving back out. 🤷🏽

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