Wow, I didn't realize how long this blog has been up and running. Eight years ago, I was sitting at home in Tennessee on bed rest after my hysterectomy. I was bored, antsy and trying very hard to keep my butt firmly planted in my living room chair. I found something about blogging and checked out blogger.com... at that time it was blogspot.com.
I have been posting on and off for 8 years ever since then. Wow. I can hardly believe it. EIGHT YEARS! My blog is EIGHT YEARS OLD!
I just had to share that with all of you :)
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Melting Pot Cabbage Soup
My friend, Nikky, showed me how to make an incredible cabbage soup. I love it because you can switch it up easily to make a different soup each time. Here is the basis to it and then the recipe that I made.
Melting Pot Cabbage Soup
Start by chopping about a pound or two of meat into "stew" sized chunks. Ground meat works well too. Cook in a skillet with a bit of broth, water or cooking wine until cooked through.
Add chopped veggies to the cooking meat. I like to add onions and garlic. We've also added squash, eggplant, carrots, broccoli, celery or any other vegetables you like. Saute until almost tender.
Add two cans of cream of something soup or about 4 cups of spaghetti sauce. We've also added tomato sauce instead.
In a stock pot chop a head of cabbage into bite size pieces. I like to mix red and green cabbage but either one is okay. Add broth or water to it, just enough to cover the cabbage, and cook until tender.
Add the meat mixture to the cabbage mix and stir thoroughly. Add any seasoning you want. I like to add a bit of basil, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and Italian seasoning. About two tablespoons for each seasoning is good for me.
When it is done simmering, you can add cheese, sour cream or cream cheese to add to it, or just eat it as it is.
One pot lasts us a couple days. I portion out the Melting Pot Cabbage Soup into ziplock containers so I can take some for lunch.
Here is the recipe I used to make it:
In the skillet
Chicken, 1-1/2 pounds cubed.
1 large red onion, diced (I would have done more but I couldn't open my eyes)
1 bag peas and carrots
1 jar Prego brand spaghetti sauce mushroom flavor
About 1/2 cup of Marsala cooking wine.
In the stock pot
1/2 head of green cabbage
1/2 head of red cabbage
Mushroom broth, 1 box, Imagine brand
Enough water to fill the pot enough to cover the cabbage.
Then I added more cabbage until it heaped over the top of the pot.
I cooked it down some and then added
1/4 cup basil (The cap fell off while I was shaking it)
1 TBSP each: pepper, garlic powder and onion powder
2 TBSP Italian seasoning... I think... I might have added tarragon. I can't remember.
I added the meat skillet mix to the stock pot slowly, stirring it in with every couple of ladle scoops. Once mixed, I let it sit and simmer for an hour or so (I was busy). Then portioned it out in my ziplock containers for work (3 containers, 1 for each day) and we ate the rest over 2 days.
If you try a variety of this dish that you like, let me know! I am always looking for new ideas.
If you try this recipe, leave a comment and let me know what you think!
For more recipes, click here.
Melting Pot Cabbage Soup
Start by chopping about a pound or two of meat into "stew" sized chunks. Ground meat works well too. Cook in a skillet with a bit of broth, water or cooking wine until cooked through.
Add chopped veggies to the cooking meat. I like to add onions and garlic. We've also added squash, eggplant, carrots, broccoli, celery or any other vegetables you like. Saute until almost tender.
Add two cans of cream of something soup or about 4 cups of spaghetti sauce. We've also added tomato sauce instead.
In a stock pot chop a head of cabbage into bite size pieces. I like to mix red and green cabbage but either one is okay. Add broth or water to it, just enough to cover the cabbage, and cook until tender.
Add the meat mixture to the cabbage mix and stir thoroughly. Add any seasoning you want. I like to add a bit of basil, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and Italian seasoning. About two tablespoons for each seasoning is good for me.
When it is done simmering, you can add cheese, sour cream or cream cheese to add to it, or just eat it as it is.
One pot lasts us a couple days. I portion out the Melting Pot Cabbage Soup into ziplock containers so I can take some for lunch.
Here is the recipe I used to make it:
In the skillet
Chicken, 1-1/2 pounds cubed.
1 large red onion, diced (I would have done more but I couldn't open my eyes)
1 bag peas and carrots
1 jar Prego brand spaghetti sauce mushroom flavor
About 1/2 cup of Marsala cooking wine.
In the stock pot
1/2 head of green cabbage
1/2 head of red cabbage
Mushroom broth, 1 box, Imagine brand
Enough water to fill the pot enough to cover the cabbage.
Then I added more cabbage until it heaped over the top of the pot.
I cooked it down some and then added
1/4 cup basil (The cap fell off while I was shaking it)
1 TBSP each: pepper, garlic powder and onion powder
2 TBSP Italian seasoning... I think... I might have added tarragon. I can't remember.
I added the meat skillet mix to the stock pot slowly, stirring it in with every couple of ladle scoops. Once mixed, I let it sit and simmer for an hour or so (I was busy). Then portioned it out in my ziplock containers for work (3 containers, 1 for each day) and we ate the rest over 2 days.
If you try a variety of this dish that you like, let me know! I am always looking for new ideas.
If you try this recipe, leave a comment and let me know what you think!
For more recipes, click here.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Rumors... Living Vicariously Through Lies.
My workplace is full of rumors. It is like living in a Junior High School only more vicious. I do not need to watch soap operas; the rumors at work are hilarious and entertaining enough. The batch this week has been very interesting to listen to and made me think about when I lived in Tennessee and had a bunch of rumors spread about me. I, apparently, have a very interesting life that I didn’t know about.
According to the rumors there, I am a witch and I cast spells on my residents to make them sleep. If I did, my residents would be asleep all night not up wandering the halls. I also held séances out back behind the nursing home under a full moon and I was searching for virgins. Trust me, if I was searching for virgins, I wouldn’t be looking for them at that place. Some of the rumors were true. Moreover, I sure the hell wouldn’t be holding séances under a full moon! Everyone would be able to see you… it would be under a new moon where it would be dark and harder to see. Common sense, people. Seriously.
The ones here are not as outlandish but they are still hilarious. Did you know I am rich? Me either. However, according to the source, I am rich because of my writing and I do not really need to work. I wish that were true. However, my writing is just a hobby and does not pay much and I am anything but rich. Right now, I have $32 in the bank. If that makes me rich, cool. It is not going very far though.
Then there is the one where I have a lesbian lover. Here name is Nikky. We are secret lesbian lovers. Jealous yet? Don’t be. Nikky is my best friend and like a sister to me. We spend a lot of time together but we are NOT lesbian lovers. I guess it does not help that we go everywhere together and I happen to have open-mouth-insert-foot moments a lot, like the time she did laundry at my house and left some of her clothes behind. We were outside on break one day and I said all enthusiastically, “Hey! You left your thongs at my house!” Oh, I could have died of embarrassment when I realized how that sounded.
This last week we went on a road trip to Washington and stayed in a hotel two nights. Our boss forgot to take her off the schedule. I got a call at 5:30 in the morning from one of our friends saying, “Wake up Nikky! She has to call in. Cindy put her on the schedule.” I hopped out of bed and handed her the phone. When we got back into town, our friend was telling Nikky that they were all sitting outside trying to figure out how to get a hold of Nikky since she wasn’t answering her phone (she turned it down). Ang said “Call Dotchi, have her roll over and smack Nikky in the face.” Thanks guys. Thanks. Love you too.
The rumors that came out this week did not involve Nikky and me this time. Apparently, everyone at work is sleeping with everyone else in various places throughout the town. One guy and his wife went to marriage counseling over it. Another was found making out with someone else at the bar. This is the same person that slept with a gang that came through town and spray painted their logo all over town. It is all confusing to follow but entertaining to hear, especially when you know the truth about some of them.
Where do people come up with this shit? Seriously? Do people sit around at night drinking and concocting stories about fellow coworkers? Where do you do this? I want a stiff drink. I am a writer; I can help create some interesting rumors. However, I will warn you, someone is going to abducted and anally probed.
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