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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Soup and Salad Night




Tonight was soup and salad night at the Clark house. I made Cheeseburger soup and strawberry and spinach salad with homemade dressing. I have included the recipes below. I also made a family favorite " sweet potato biscuits" cut out in heart shapes for my sweet ones. I ran into to friends in the store this week and they were telling me how much they liked the menus I post on facebook but they thought it was expensive to cook this way or took a long time. This started me thinking- I don't want folks to think my cooking costs lots extra or takes lots of extra time. The truth is you need to be a good planner and have a plan in place before you start cooking from the beginning. For example, the cheeseburger soup takes lots of spices and for me that could mean lots of trips to the pantry. It also requires celery, onions, and carrots to be chopped and shredded. This could make you crazy trying to prepare everything, but I am going to let you in on a secret. Plan ahead- if you know you are going to make this soup- chop and shred the veggies ahead of time and put in fridge, the day you are going to make the soup - gather all the spices together. This is soup that most of the prep work could be done before and saved in the fridge until you are ready to make. The sweet potato biscuits are some of the best biscuits I have ever tasted. Even if you do not like sweet potatoes, I think you will like these. Make soup and enjoy...until next time wishing you joy - Pauletta

Cheeseburger Soup

½ pound ground beef
¾ c chopped onion
¾ c shredded carrots
¾ c diced celery
1 tsp dried basil
1 tsp parsley flakes
4 T butter divided
3 c chicken broth
4 cups diced potatoes (can be fresh you have cooked and diced or you can use 2 cans of diced canned potatoes)
¼ c all purpose flour
8 oz Velveeta cheese cubed (about 2 cups)
1 ½ c milk
½ t pepper
¾ t salt

Brown ground beef, drain and set aside. Saut̩ onions, carrots, celery, basil and parsley in 1 T butter until tender. Add broth, potatoes, and beef, bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer 10 min or until potatoes are tender. Meanwhile in small skillet, melt remaining butter add flour cook and stir 3-5 minutes, add to soup, bring to boil Рcook and stir 2 minutes. Reduce heat to low- add cheese, milk, salt and pepper. Cook and stir until soup thickens.

Sweet Potato Biscuits

2 ½ c all purpose flour
½ tsp allspice
¼ c brown sugar
½ c butter cut into small pieces
1 tablespoon baking powder
½ c milk
¾ tsp salt
¾ mashed sweet potatoes
½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp ginver
½ c pecans, chopped

Preheat oven to 450
Combine all dry ingredients. Add butter with fork until texture is small crumbs
Combine milk and sweet potatoes add to flour mixture add pecans
Knead dough with hands until smooth
Roll out on a floured surface to ½ “ thickness cut with biscuit cutter
Place on greased baking sheet 2” apart
Bake for 10-15 minutes or lightly browned
Spinach Strawberry Salad

Spinach Leaves
Sliced strawberries
Pecans chopped
Mon. Jack Cheese

Dressing
1 c oil
¾ c sugar
½ c red wine vinegar
½ tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
½ tsp paprika

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