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Simply Bean Soup

March 16, 2011 By Julie 25 Comments

When I was a child I hated beans.  No wait, let me rephrase that.  Not just hated, despised.  On nights when beans were served, my mom would make my brother and me sit at the table until we finished every last bean on our plates and sometimes we’d sit there for hours.  We didn’t have a dog to help in our demise and the cat was as turned off by the whole ordeal as we were so she was no assistance in the bean disposal department.  My brother eventually developed this ingenious idea to declare an “emergency bathroom break” immediately after taking a huge bite of said round nuggets and would magically come back with a cleansed palate. I still owe my brother one for his shrewd method of bean extraction.

I’m not sure what happened between childhood and today, but at some point in time, unbeknownst to me, my palate adapted, ate a bean, and declared it good.  Now I suddenly find myself cooking with beans on a weekly basis and dare I say, enjoying it.  Fortunately two of my three kiddos enjoy the beans with me.  One, Nicholas, does not.  Life experience has taught me that forcing a bean despiser hater to eat beans does absolutely nothing for expanding the palate and only causes said child to have a sore bum from spending too much time seated at the table with no dog for assistance.  So, for now, I allow Nicholas to bypass the beans in the hopes that one day, he too will declare beans good.

And so, this soup is in honor of beans.  Plain and simple.  There aren’t many bells and whistles in the recipe.  Just what it takes to highlight my gratitude for a sometimes under acknowledged, non-meat, healthy as all get out, protein source that with time and appreciation, I have truly come to enjoy.

Grab your bowl and let’s cook up some Simply Bean Soup.

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Food, Soup Tagged With: 30 minute meal, basil, beans, butter, food, garlic, onion, pepper, recipe, Rosemary, salt, sherry, stock, thyme, white wine

Greek Inspired Slow Cooker Chicken

March 7, 2011 By Julie 60 Comments

As my kids get older, the amount of time I have to cook dinner seems to be less and less.  Ok, who am I kidding.  It doesn’t seem to be less.  It actually is less.  A whole lot less.  Between Spanish classes, Y-Guides and Faith formation, our afternoons are filled with the kids and me shuttling around in the car, racing to make the next destination on time.  Dinner is a far thought in the back of my mind.

I remember the days when I had all afternoon to think about and prepare a tasty meal.  I would plan and orchestrate without interruption and the result was usually a masterpiece fit for a king (or at least a family of five).  Today I’m lucky if I walk in the door at 5pm and have even had the foresight to pull out a package of meat for that night’s meal.   Enter in my trusty slow cooker.

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Filed Under: Chicken, Food, Main Course, Slow Cooker Tagged With: balsamic vinegar, broth, chicken, Dill, food, garlic, Greek, Lemon, Olive Oil, pepper, recipe, Rosemary, salt, white wine


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