Easy Quick Turnip Green Soup

 So I am the turnip green lover in our house. I absolutely love this soup but have been wanting to create a quicker version that makes a smaller amount. I think I've done this, it's not quite as good but close enough for me. A great recipe for those who live alone or that single turnip green lover!

Ingredients:

1 TBS minced onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
1  sm piece of hog jowl

1 cup frozen corn kernels
1 cup frozen black-eyed peas
2 TBS Chicken granules

2 cups water
1 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
1 27 ounce can of Turnip Greens
1 tablespoon vinegar pepper sauce, plus more for serving
Salt, if needed

Instructions:

Add all ingredients and bring to a slow boil.

Reduce heat, cover and simmer approximately 40 minutes on medium heat or until peas are well done.

Be sure to taste before adding pepper sauce and some canned turnips have it already in them, you don't want to make it too spicy.
Serve with additional pepper sauce if desired.

Now all you need is some hot cornbread!

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New Improved Taco Soup

What do you do on a cold icy day? Make soup, and that's just what I did.

This recipe will make 10 servings for some families. I will not promise ten because we ate big bowls and didn't get ten out of it.

New Improved Taco Soup

Ingredients:
1 lb. ground venison or beef
1 sm sweet onion
2 - 14.5 oz cans Petite Diced Tomatoes
1 - 10 oz. Original Rotel Tomatoes
1 - 4.5 oz. can Green Chilies Mild
1 - 15 oz. can Red Kidney Beans
1 - 15 oz. can Black Beans
2 - TBLS Ranch Dressing Mix
1 1/2 TBLS Taco Seasoning

Directions:
Brown ground meat and onion in a large pot until meat is cooked well and onion is transparent.

Mix all other ingredients and cook for one hour or all day.

We like ours over Tortilla chips and topped with shredded cheese and sour cream.

YUM!!

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Easy Taco Soup

Easy Taco Soup

Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef
1 medium onion, diced
1 package taco seasoning or your favorite homemade taco seasoning
3/4 cup water
1 15-0z can red beans
1 15-oz can corn
1 4-oz can diced green chiles
1 can (28 oz) stewed tomatoes
1 cup shredded cheese (to garnish)

Sour cream (to garnish)
tortilla chips or corn chips

Dash of Tabasco to taste, optional

Directions:
In a large stock pot, brown the ground beef until crumbly. Add onion and cook until translucent. Add taco seasoning and water. Stir until meat is evenly coated.  Add in beans, corn, and chiles. Mix well and allow to simmer for 5 minutes.  Do not drain the cans first.  Add tomatoes and simmer for up to 20 minutes to combine flavors.  If you like your soup spicy, add a dash of Tabasco and use Hot green chiles.  Serve with grated cheese, sour cream and tortilla chips.  Makes 8-10, 1-cup servings.

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Stewp

Have you ever heard of stewp? Have you ever eaten it?

Recently I wanted vegetable beef soup and Honey wanted stew. Since Honey's sugar has been high I've been cooking less with potatoes because it seems to shoot his sugar sky high. So I set out to make a thinker soup, stew type dish.

This is great for the cooler weather headed this way!

Here's how I made it. Add liquids etc as needed. I eyeballed everything so I'm not sure exactly how much I used.

Stewp

Ingredients:
2 TBS Chicken bullion granules
2 cups water
2 LBS Beef Steak (I use a cheap grade of steak for this)
1 can mild Rotel Tomatoes
2 ounces Tomato Paste
1-16 oz bag mixed vegetables
1-8 oz bag butter beans
1 pkg brown gravy mix

Cut up steak in bite size pieces while partially frozen, it's easier this way. Add water and bullion granules to a stock pat, add meat as you cut it up. Add Tomatoes to this and cook on med for 30 minutes. Add vegetables and tomato paste cook until done. Add gravy mix and cook until liquid is almost absorbed. Watch your water level you may have to add water at times.

We loved it and I hope you will too!

By the way Honey's sugar is under control and he appears to be doing great!

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My Famous Vegetable Beef Soup

Yay it's soup weather! Being from the south we don't have soup until the fall during the summer we're too hot and in the spring we are tired of it but in the fall and winter I make a lot of soup. So it's been really rainy here and in the 60's and Honey and I both were wanting soup.

I've made this recipe numerous times and everyone loves it. Honestly I would love to tell you that it requires a lot of work but I would be lying and my Momma taught me not to lie so I have to be honest it is easy. The hardest part of it is cutting up your meat and vegetables, if you want to use fresh ones, and then waiting on it to get done.

I usually use frozen vegetables because I like to use things that I have in my freezer. I use a cheaper grade of steak or stew meat and then I let it cook for hours.

My Famous Vegetable Beef Soup

2 TBS of olive or canola oil
1 pound beef
1 TBS Ham or Chicken broth granules
1 cup water
1 - 15 oz. cam tomato sauce
1 - 15 oz. can diced tomatoes or you can use a can of tomato with peppers
1 can diced carrots
1 - 16 oz. bag frozen butter beans
1 - 16 oz. bag whole kernel corn
1 lg potato
salt and pepper to taste

Heat oil in a dutch oven. Cut up beef into bite size pieces and add to hot oil, cook until brown. Add broth granules and water heat until boiling. Cook on med heat for about 1 hour. Add other ingredients and cook until all vegetables are done. 

I serve with hot cornbread, remember I'm a southern girl.

You can adjust vegetables according to what you prefer.

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Superbowl Sunday with recipes

I have been waiting some time now for the perfect day to make Red Beans and Rice. Recently I was in the cooking mood so I made them for our supper and took them to Ben and Ashia's so that Ben could enjoy them with us. Ashia doesn't eat any type of bean so she made herself a pizza instead. It was the perfect food for a cold rainy night. I also made corn bread, not from my favorite recipe but from a mix I had on hand. It was good but we still like mine a lot better. 

Red Beans and Rice

2 cups dried red beans
4 pieces of bacon, fried and crumbled, save grease
1 pkg. of your favorite sausage, fry and set aside
1 tbls. chicken stock granules
salt and pepper to taste
5 cups water


Prepare you beans for cooking. Fry bacon and sausage and set aside. Drain beans when ready to cook and add chicken stock, water, bacon and bacon grease. I cook mine for hours until they are very done and thick.


For Superbowl Sunday we went to Ben and Ashia's and watched the game with friends. Ben was in DC but made it home by the end and in time to eat, the most important thing right? 


I took a great sausage dip. Well, it is usually great but this time I used a different type of sausage than I normally do and I did not like it. Oh well, here is the recipe just be sure to use a sausage you really like, believe me it matters. :(




Sausage Dip
 
Ingredients:
2 lbs. ground sausage
1 8-oz. pkg cream cheese
1 16-oz. carton sour cream
1 10-oz. can Ro-tel tomatoes
4 cups shredded Mexican-blend cheese 

Instructions:
Brown sausage; drain. Stir in cream cheese, sour cream, Ro-tel and cheese. Put all in crock and cook until is melted and well blended. Keep hot and serve with Frito Scoops.

I also made chocolate cupcakes of course all was gluten free but they were really good. I love Pamela's mixes for a quick fix, you can buy them at any Kroger and they good.


Here are some photos from our game night.

 

 Austin was shown more attention than the game.

  

 But, she didn't mind!

 

What a great little helper.

 

Needless tweeting.....

  

 Something to do when you are bored.

We had a fun time and I was happy with the outcome although NOT everyone was! :(

A Helpful Hint From My House to Yours

Allergies, headaches and surgery

As I've mentioned before I'm getting ready for a procedure on my stomach valve this next Monday so I am off all aspirin products. I have had a head ache for three days now, it may be lack of caffeine so I've have been drinking coffee. I really think it is something in the air. On our trip to Indiana I did great and had no headaches. I swear to you the minute we drove back into the deep south Steve and I both had a headache. What is it about MS that is so different? I hate the idea of leaving this Magnolia state but sure wish my head would feel better.

As for my stomach now that the procedure is scheduled and my part of it is already paid I feel better, go figure! I guess I need to go and let them check me out anyway and the only way they can do this is a scope down my throat I've never had this procedure done that it wasn't closed or had a pea size opening. I mentioned not going to Steve and his reply was, "Grace, you have been sick for a month now and you have two good days and want to cancel the procedure umm no"!


My Family

Steve has been in the Delta and is home now and I'm so glad I hate staying by myself. I have had Sydney here, Ben and Ashia's dog, but she just wants to sleep. The minute Steve walked through the door she was full of energy and seemed to be full all night long.


When Sydney sleeps she gets cold and stays right under me but if I wrap her up she'll sleep for hours. Notice her paw over her nose.


I don't know if you read Ashia's blog (find the link in the right hand margin) but she is very pregnant. She goes back to the doctor on Monday. We still don't know the sex of our Indiana baby but we should know in two weeks, I can't stand the suspense! Both Ashia and Mary are doing very well.


Helpful Hint From My House to Yours

While at Mary's last week my girls and I made gluten-free brownies from a mix I had taken with me. I had made these brownies before and they seemed a little dry but not this time. While Alyana mixed them I added a large tablespoon of sour cream (I use Daisy all natural) to the mixture and they were great. George, my son-in-law, didn't realize they were gluten-free. I use sour cream or mayonnaise (Hellmann's) in a lot of baking gluten-free with mixes it always makes the item moist.



Something new I tried while at Mary's, if I eat at night the food just sets there and I can't sleep so I was looking for something I could drink at night. I bought this at Kroger and it was really good, it would have been better if I'd put a few potatoes in it. The neat thing is that they have soups such as this in many different flavors. UMMM