Have you ever watched The Pioneer Woman on Food Network? Oh my, does she make some fantastic looking food! If you're not familiar, you should definitely check out her website. Last week I made this Chicken Spaghetti Casserole (with some tweaks) which the whole family liked. There was another recipe I'd seen on her site that looked really good called Sausage, Potato, Kale soup. She likened it to one of the soups you find at Olive Garden so that piqued my interest.
Luckily, I went to the store this morning and made sure to get the ingredients for this. (By the way, my trip to the store is when I made the 'ice skating another week' decision because I was completely frozen just getting groceries into the car) Another random thought about my trip to the store - thank goodness for technology!! I was able to look up the recipe real quick to make sure I wasn't forgetting anything.
Ok back to the project.
If you know Luke, you might know that he doesn't like potatoes. So, I knew that making this recipe would be more my project than his. But he did help with some prep...I'll get to that in a minute.
First things first, I wanted to get a shot of the main ingredients before I lost all the light for the day.
I had Luke do the Kale. He needed to pull the leaves from the stem and then tear them into bite size pieces.
At one point he asked if he could try the kale (raw). I said, "Sure!" He gave this face...
I think it's safe to say he won't be asking for a side of kale any time soon.
As Luke was prepping the kale, I was slicing potatoes, chopping an onion, and browning the Italian turkey sausage. Once he finished with the kale, he did another super big helpful thing, and that was to keep his no-nap-havin little sister entertained while mommy was in the kitchen. Daddy and Luke had to work together to keep her busy!
In the end, the soup turned out pretty good. It was hearty, 1/2 healthy (turkey sausage, kale, and potatoes = good; using whole milk AND half & half as the cream base = not so good) and almost a 1 pot meal.
Luke did try the soup even though 1) he doesn't like potatoes and 2) he was hesitant about the kale....but he did NOT care for it. He ended up with PB&J (2/3 healthy with whole grain bread and protein from the PB!) Trevor had the soup and his verdict was that it was "good" but that the kale didn't really "fit". He thought it was a good new recipe to try though. As for me, I liked it. It wasn't my favorite soup but it was still good.
The soundtrack for this week was hearing my kiddos laughing and playing in the next room. :)
A few other new things worth mentioning from this week:
1)Prometheus: Sci-fi movie; Sarah and Trevor rated it "just ok"
2)Toddler bed for E: results yet to be determined. E climbed out of her crib stealth style at nap time today. She was fussing and not going down for her nap. It got quiet and I thought she was settling down. So you can imagine my SHOCK when she appeared in the doorway of our bedroom. We didn't even hear her get out of the crib. So, there was no other choice but to transition to the toddler bed. She never did nap today....we're praying that she sleeps through the night and doesn't notice that she's not in a crib.
So that's a wrap for week 2! I'll be back mid week for an onion chopping tutorial (in case there are any beginner cooks out there) and then we hope to get our ice skating in for week 3, as long as the weather cooperates!
~STELR
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