Skip to main content

Food Friday with Field Roast Soup

How about a Food Friday post today? Kind of switch things up a bit. I'm feeling sassy like that - or really it's just a lack of creativity if I'm honest. And I'm honest like that.

Last night I felt completely and totally wiped out. I don't know if it was from the amount of blood they had drawn or just the day itself dealing with the hematology appointment overload. Either way, I was pooped.

I really could have gone to bed at 7 and skipped dinner all together. And I am not one to skip any meal at all, ever!

Jason did me a big favor and made dinner. We had picked up some Field Roast Smoked Apple Sage "Sausage" Links from Whole Foods recently, and he had been wanting to use those for several days. Since he was cooking, I told him to go for it.

He ended up putting together a really amazing, richly flavorful soup. I thought I'd share one of his recipes for a change. He really is a good cook I must say. Of course, he did spend five years in the kitchen of the best French restaurants in town. I'm a lucky girl.

Vegan Smoked Apple Sage Sausage Soup
Ingredients:
1 package Field Roast Smoked Apple Sage Sausage Links, diced
1 small white onion, diced
4-5 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 red bell pepper, diced
1/2 green bell pepper, diced
2 small zucchini, cubed
1 32 oz container no-salt vegetable broth
*Diced, roasted butternut squash (approximately half)

To taste: salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme, white pepper, red pepper
1 1/2 tbsp tapioca flour mixed with water (options, helps to thicken soup)

Directions:
In a non-stick pan, brown the sausages and set aside.

In a large soup pot, saute onions, pepper, zucchini, and garlic until onion begins to soften then add spices and broth. Bring to a boil then lower to a simmer and allow to cook 15-20 minutes. Then add in the butternut squash and sausages and tapioca flour mixture and re-season if needed. Allow the soup to cook another 10 minutes or until tapioca flour has slightly thickened the soup.

*I had roasted squash on hand, if you do not, add in the raw, cubed squash into the pot with the onions.
This turned out to be incredibly flavorful and hearty as well. Perfect soup for a cold evening. Lucky for me, I had some homemade ciabata bread on hand too.

Does your significant other ever take over in the kitchen for you?

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Love in Photos

In honor of Valentine's Day - Love in Photos Husband Family and Furbabies Friends Even if you're not a fan of Valentine's Day - I hope you have a wonderful day and remember the loves in your life.

Hump Day and More Pineapples

Full-Body Workout  I'll readily admit that getting up this morning was quite painful and almost didn't happen. I forced myself out of bed though not exactly excited about tackling a full-body Pyramid workout. Sort of daunting at 5 am really. I did the warm up from Shock Cardio Cardio Core Circuit (cardio only premix) then hit the weights. It was a pyramid up only so I increased my starting weight. I topped it all off with the first 2 1/2 drills from the cardio workout. I ran short on time and was basically spent. Squats into Plie Squats Step Ups (seriously hate these especially at 5:30 am) Incline Chest Flyes into Chest Press Pullovers into DB Underhand Rows Step Ups (freaking again) Static Lunges Overhead DB Press into Lateral Raises Deadlifts Kickbacks into Overhead Extensions Hammer Curls into Alternating Curls Calf Raises I am so excited to report that my new cross-trainers and running shoes arrived today. Can't wait to test both of them out. I waited way way way too

Hitting the Gym and Lazy Means Creative Tex-Mex Creation

Sunday, Gym Day Why do vacations and min-vacations go by so quickly? Just doesn't seem quite right. Anyway, we left Branson around 9:30 am to head back home. It was a pretty uneventful drive back, which is usually a good thing. We got home and unpacked, then I headed up to the gym. I started with a 10-minute treadmill run to warm up before hitting the weights for back and light legs then abs. I went with a giant set for back then supersets for legs. GS - 4x8 Underhand barbell rows Pullovers Double-arm rows SS#1 Rear-leg elevated lunges (Bulgarian Split Squats) - 3x8 Calf raises - 3x20 SS#2 - 2x8 Walking lunges Plie squats with low-end pulse Single-leg deadlifts - 2x8 I did some ab exercises, stretched, and called it quits. Lazy = Crazy Dinner I may have made it to the gym and washed a few loads of laundry, but I never made it to the grocery store - lounging in the pool trumped grocery shopping. This meant getting creative with dinner. We had another package