Lasagna Spinach Soup

So this soup is SO dang yummy I have made it twice this week! I found it on the website that I sited before Kitchen Parade. But I specifically found this recipe on her Veggie Venture blog. With her recipe she has it listed as 3 weight watcher points. I LOVED the broth and Spinach so much I altered it a bit and the way I have the recipe listed here is only 2 Weight Watcher points.

Ingredients

1/4-1/3 pound ground Turkey orhamburger (I prefer it with less, but she used 1 lb. I also used the 95% lean hamburger)

1 large chopped Onion
2 Tbsp minced Garlic
2 tsp basil
2 tsp Oregano
1 tsp anise seed
Salt & Pepper to Taste

15 oz can diced tomatoes
15 oz canned tomato sauce

(Today I actually just used 2 Heaping Tbsp of an italian seasoning mix since i wasn't about to spend the $7 for that tiny bottle of anise! NOt to mention that was much easier!)


6 Cups chicken Broth (I used Boullion)
3 OZ Lasagna (About 3 long strips)
Lots of Fresh Spinach! (about 12 ounces?)


In a large Pan or POt cook your hamburger until done. Add all seasonings and the onion. Cook thoroughly. Add the tomatoes, Sauce and Broth and bring to boil. Pretty much at this point you can add the lasagna, but just remember the longer it's in there the soggier it gets so if you aren't serving for awhile I would wait to add it. But...let's say we are ready to serve soon! Add the noodles and cook medium for about 15-20 minutes. Just before serving add the spinach for 1-2 miutes then serve. Today I just dished up my soup without the spinach, then added my own HUGE handful on the top, stirred then let sit in my bowl for a few minutes.


The original recipe suggests chopping the spinach, but I LOVE it so much It doesn't matter to me! Changes I also made from the original:

2 cups more broth, 1 oz more pasta, and lots more spinach. HEr recipe is also for 8 1 cup servings at 3 points each. Today I split mine into 6 servings (obviously more than 1 cup becuase I used more broth) and it was only 2 points per serving. You could certainly go for 8 servings and it would only be about 1 point as my 2 point figureation was actually rounded up!

Enjoy and sorry I blab so much!

Contest Giveaway

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the Kitchen Parade has all kinds of recipes and tips and suggestions and I SUGGEST you go there! But don't forget to peek over here too.

Oregano Chicken

We made this the other night, kinda just whipped it up as I went along, but it turned out yummy so I wanted to share.



Ingredients:

1 TBSP Canola Oil
1 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp Oregan
3 chicken Breast cut into small pieces
1 Carrot
1 Celery stick
3-4 Brocoli Pieces
3-4 Cauliflower Pieces

Brush the oil in skillet, sprinkle garlic and oregano on bottom, then add chicken. Cook thoroughly. Finely chop all veggies and add to chicken until cooked. That's it! EAt!

Kinda like a stirfry, but the tiny veggies were super yummy, I cooked mine till they were a bit crispy, but having it smaller seemed to make them easier for my kids to eat. We had Salad that more fresh veggies with Ranch dip with it, but you could even add this over some pasta tossed with a little oil and more garlic and oregano. Very healthy and VERY tasty.

Pig Cake

I just had my sons 2nd birthday and we had a farm birthday party. I made a pig cake and again, I'm not posting an actual recipe but more just some ideas of what I did.

1. Chocolate Cake with STrawberry Icing. Totally yummy flavors together! NEver did it before, loved it and would probably make really yummy cake balls! Also I didn't put any oil in the mix, added a Sugar Free Choco pudding mix to it. Came out of the pan great, tasted great....thus you DO NOT need oil! Yay for less fat and calories
2. For the nose I was out of cake batter and wanted something wide and remember seeing often on CAke boss them use rice crispy treat. I didn't have rice crispies but I did have Chex, so I mixed some marshmallows, butter and crushed chex, and it was perfect!
3. I used pre-made fondant for the ears and just cut out the shapes by hand, no cutters. Although the stuff tastes awful it worked good. It's even a year old and I just had to put it in a little baggie with a few drops of water, warmed up in the micro for 15 seconds and it was really easy to work with.
4. Smoothing the frosting. Someone once mentioned using a blow dryer...didn't work as well. Tried it on the cupcakes, but went back to my old method for the cake. After the cake with frosting sitting in the freezer for about 15 minutes you use a tiny bit of water on your fingers to smooth out. I use warm water, but I don't know that it matters. Then you could use the dryer after to help make it shiny again, but I forgot to do that before I put the dryer away.

Other things....I used chocolate chips for the eyes, black sugar sprinkles for the nostrils and more fondant for the border. On the cupcakes I just made animal picks from my cricut. If I had some black licorice string I would have done a little smile at the bottom.

A plethera or things! Or at least 3

OKay, so I have a few things to add on here, but since I just posted them on my blog I'll just attach a link here that you can follow to there!

Christmas Cookies



Cookie Cutter Sandwhiches



Cake Balls

Restaurant taste, in your own kitchen!

Okay, so I haven't tried this yet, but it just looks so dang yummy! But I thought I would share it!
Here is the blog where I found it!

Cake Pops

So I'm not going to post this recipe, but I'm going to give you the link, because why should I re-type it when all you have to do is click! But I'm attaching two links, one to my blog so you can see our fun pictures of making these cake pops, but then to the original bakerella website where you can find the recipe just waiting to be used! Honestly these are so fun, easy and yummy you will have to some time in your life try them!

Here's a picture of my final cake pops for my music class



and a much better picture of the ones she made on bakerella!