Light and Blooms

      Success! Alphabet Chicken Soup       This recipe was a real winner. It made a full pot of a hearty, flavorful soup.   We have eaten it for several more meals and I have a container in the freezer.   It heats up well and the flavors become more bold with time.   This one is in my soup file.       

  Even though I don't have any little ones in the house anymore,  I still love the simplicity of A, B, C's.   But we can always do it in a grown up version.  Add a little  sophistication to the simple.   Which brings me to Day 2 soup.   Alphabet Chicken Soup   It is already on the stove simmering. Easy ingredients, easy prep. No mess, unless you want to make one.   Below is recipe and source. Tomorrow...Results.           Alphabet Chicken Soup   http://www.myepicureanadventures.com/2013/05/homemade-alphabet-chicken-soup.html Ingredients: 12 cups water     5 tsp bouillon (Use Herb Ox , which is MSG-Free) 2 cups chopped up chicken, cooked 1/2 cup letter pasta, uncooked 1/4 cup barley, uncooked 1/4 cup rice, uncooked 1/2 cup diced carrots 1 onion, diced 1/2 cup broccoli slaw, diced 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 tsp salt ...

Results of Day 1 Beef Barley Soup     A winner for  Day 1      If you are not a big mushroom lover, either skip the mushrooms or dice them up.  I love mushrooms so I used sliced ones.  The family, not so much.  I will dice them next time.   This recipe is copied and in my file.   Let me know if you try it and what you think.   Enjoy!!          

  I would love to say that I could focus enough  to do a whole year of something, everyday, but I cannot.  I like too much variety.  I enjoyed watching Julie and Julia, and was inspired by it.  To have the focus and determination  to keep cooking a new recipe a day  for a whole year is awe inspiring.  Just not something I aspire to do.   I do however love the idea of trying new things and learning.  So I am going to take things down a few notches  and say I will do something new  for  30 days, everyday. One day at a time.   And to break it down even further,  I will do a category a week for 4 weeks  until 30 days is complete.   Which brings me to my first day, today. My first week, my first category.   Soups. Soups you say?  In the middle of summer in Florida? Yes, soups. It seems like a good idea to me.  At the end of a week, I will have 7 new soups ...