Vegetarian Stir Fry

Healthy, Yummy, and Easy, Easy, Easy!

Braggs Liquid Aminos
tofu
cashews
peppers
broccoli
peas carrots
loads of veggies...again, whatever you have!

Stir fry all!

3 Bean Vegetable Chili

So good, so healthy.

3 cans beans (black, kidney, pinto...or whatever)
onion
frozen corn
carrots
broccoli
zuccini
...loads of vegetables!  I use whatever I have in my refrigerator.
chili powder
crushed garlic
cumin
pepper
little sea salt

Start with the onion in a pot...I use water to brown it - no butter or oil.
Add the frozens and then the fresh and the beans.  Don't overcook your veggies into mush!

Ladel the hot chili over fresh uncooked kale so that it wilts.

Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

Toasted Pumpkin Seeds

Great for healthy snack

slice open pumpkin
rake out seeds with fingers first - this is key!
THEN scoop out pulp so you can use the pumpkin itself in another recipe
rinse and set seeds out to dry
toss with a little sea salt and a tad of evoo
bake at 300 until slightly brown
yum!

Recipe 2

A Quick Slow Dressing

This dressing hasn't met an enemy in my house, and it's so quick it hardly deserves its own post...it's also gluten free!

Ingredients

orange juice (fresh from the orange, or straight from the container - but real oj, nothing added)
evoo (extra virgin olive oil)

pour ingredients in a bowl and whisk to emulsify

That's it!

Recipe 1

Chicken Noodle Soup

A simple classic, ready in 45 minutes or less

You'll notice I don't really use measurements or quantities with savory cooking.  I just add things "to taste", or until the ingredients are "proportional."  Do it to your own liking.  If you like a "broth-y" soup, cut back on the solid ingredients and up the stock, and vice versa.  Change up the recipe based on what you have in your own cupboard, or the size of your pot.

Ingredients

egg noodles
chicken
1 onion diced
carrots peeled and cut into small chunks
s & p
parsley chopped
oregano
1 cup chicken stock/bouillon
water
butter
evoo
One soup pot

I keep my heat at medium to medium high, but generally closer to medium.
Cook chicken in the soup pot with a tad of olive oil.  Take out and cut into small chunks.
Brown onion a little in same pot with a little butter.
Add cut up carrots and chicken.*
Add s&p, parsley and oregano - generous on all.**
Add chicken stock or bouillon and deglaze pan as you pour.
Turn heat to high and add water.
Boil and then add noodles until you're satisfied.  Let them cook up until tender.
Eat.


*Tip - Cut all ingredients in similar sizes
**Tip - Adding spices before the liquid helps to infuse their flavor

This is easy to make a double batch of and freeze, or take to a friend.  To freeze, let soup cool down, place a gallon zip-top freezer bag upright in a large bowl and roll down the top of the bag to prevent soup from getting into the "zipper".  Pour your soup from pot into the bag, zip, mark with sharpie, and lay flat in freezer.

To thaw, place bag in large bowl of hot water until you can break it up.  Place pieces in pot and heat covered on medium low-medium.

Welcome!

Welcome to my brand new blog, "Slow Food, for Busy Moms".  I'm Katie, and I love to cook.  I love my family.  I love the Lord.  And I love to fix my family truly healthy meals.  (Not necessarily in that order.)

Over the past five years or so, I have developed a passion for real food, and for passing this on to my family.  While searching for a website that offered "slow food" recipes for a busy mother and wife (and sometimes photographer, because who isn't these days), I couldn't find anything!  So here we are.  I don't blog, and I don't create recipes....so this is a beginning for both of us.

Who knows where this adventure will take us, but I'm excited to begin, and invite you along for the journey!  I hope we discover here what is means to cook healthy, on a budget, while busy...and not let it take away from what's most important in life.  We're aiming high my friend.  But as I have heard many times from a dear friend, "if you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time."

Welcome!

With Warm Regards,

Katie