Soup stock is almost a staple in our kitchen. It’s remarkably useful.
Almost any time we have chicken, we save the bones for use in making stock (freezing them until we have enough to use). If I want beef stock, though, I usually have to go out and buy bones for use.
Squash, Sauce, and Salad
Ideally this recipe would use grass-fed meat. I’m working on it. The meat I used (both beef and the sausage) was lean enough I had to add olive oil to keep things from getting unpleasant, so if we don’t look too carefully we should be okay.
It’s my birthday later this week and my daughter wanted to do something nice for me for my present. I asked her to make supper for me.
I think she did a good job — a very good job, for someone nine years old.
Ingredients: bell pepper, celery, chorizo, cucumber, dried chilis, garlic, ground beef, mushroom, olive oil, onion, oregano, romaine lettuce, sausage, spaghetti squash, tomato, tomato paste
Since my kids were born, my parents come over to my place for Christmas. After we moved closer to them, we’ve split the hosting duties — morning (with the tree and presents, and breakfast) at my place, then we all go to their place for dinner.
Because we’re having a big dinner, and usually a relatively early one, we’ve found it works best to have brunch after the presents are done that will keep us satisfied until dinner. When I was a kid this usually meant pancakes or the like, with some snacking on a cracker and cheese plate through the day.
This clearly isn’t going to work in someone aiming for a primal lifestyle, or even a low-carb diet, so in the last few years it’s shifted more to some sort of egg dish. Omelettes are fairly straightforward, and there are a few variations that are more convenient to cook (such as Denvers — chop the other ingredients smaller and mix directly with the egg before cooking), but I wanted something different this year.
I’m not entirely sure what this is called, or what it will be called, but I think it’ll happen in my house again. It was pretty good.
"Boring Salad"
So, I’ve been told that salad is a boring meal. I don’t think so.
This is a pretty simple and straightforward salad with dressing. The drink is a 20-ounce mug of water (yes, there’s that much salad there) with perhaps 1/2 teaspoon of lime juice.
(That handle sticking out of the bowl? An ugly spoon from the dollar store, nobody tries to take it, even by accident. I’ve had people return it to me when I forget it somewhere.)
Ingredients: bell pepper, chicken, chili powder, mayonnaise, nuts and seeds, onion, romaine lettuce
Recipe Types: Salad
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