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Cream of Green Bean Casserole Soup

  By skurtz | 11/30/2011 - 2:14 pm | Recipes, Soups, Stews
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Cream of Green Bean Casserole Soup

If we pull out that ole college cookbook again, we’ll find another well-worn page with the Cream Soup recipe. The reason this was such a favorite was because it had four variations listed that were each basically: add 2 cups {insert vegetable} and 1 tsp {insert seasonings}. This was probably one of the first recipes that encouraged me to just make it up as I went along.

So today, I decided it was cold enough outside for soup and I was getting closer to the one-week deadline with no exciting ideas for a leftover Green Bean Casserole. The result: Cream of Green Bean Casserole Soup. Jason won’t eat it, so I will freeze the extra in small containers for some more warm lunches. more →

Shepherds Pie

  By skurtz | 11/29/2011 - 6:01 pm | Meats, Recipes
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And there were shepherds out in the field eating pie…Or something like that. Tonight Jason begged, “please no turkey.” Oooo-K. I still have LOTS of leftovers to conquer, but I also yearned for the taste of red meat, or really, anything but turkey. So I pulled some frozen ground beef out and got to work on a shepherds pie. I’ve never made shepherds pie before and I’ve only had it maybe once or twice, so I am not really sure of the “rules.” I mean, I know ground beef on the bottom, mashed potatoes on top and that’s about it. So I looked up a few recipes and decided to make something up based on what I had and what sounded good. Jason liked it. Logan dismissed it. I think he just doesn’t like all his food mixed up together.

After dinner, when I was putting away cleaned dishes I exclaimed, “Oops. I forgot to take a picture.” Sorry. At least I remembered the recipe, right? more →