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Bacon and Brie Flatbread

January 27, 2012 By Julie 19 Comments

You honestly don’t realize how much you depend on the internet until it’s no longer there.  I spent the majority of my day on the phone yesterday doing battle with technical support for one issue after another.  You think it’s fixed and then blammo.  Out it goes again.  I finished up the marathon with my third friendly voice telling me that I’d have to wait until the next afternoon for a certified technician to come out to my house and assess the damage.  Bugger.

So what’s an internet addicted blogger to do?  I cleaned the bathrooms, swept and mopped the kitchen, made German chocolate cake cookies (A.mazing little specimens), finished the second Hunger Games novel and read my way through the February issue of Southern Living; all before the boys made their way home from school.

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Food, Main Course, Pork Tagged With: Bacon, brie, flatbread, pizza, starter, thyme

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


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