Also I cooked tonight.

[in_the_blue]

Chopped up a sweet onion and sauteed it a little with a ton of garlic (yes, this is my measurement) in oil and red wine along with parsley, oregano, nutmeg, salt, pepper, smoked paprika, and a little thyme. Also chopped: carrots, celery, yukon gold potatoes, shiitake mushrooms, some leftover pasta (and baby bok choy), put them in with cream of tomato soup base and a little bit of veggie stock. Let it cook for a half hour, then added soy chicken and let it simmer until we felt like eating.

It was tasty. If you try it, let me know.

Comments

[silveraspen]

That sounds really good.

I am in the very slow process of acquiring more vegetarian recipes to try, as I really want to reduce or even eliminate my meat consumption. Baby steps.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

This was actually really easy. The most time-consuming part was chopping everything. If I had a food processor it would've been much faster, but I'm a little old-fashioned that way.

I give it 4 out of 5 stars, for those who appreciate ratings.

[shireheart.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmmmmm

hungry now.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

We have leftovers. Come on over.

[jules1278.livejournal.com]

YUMMO. <3

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

♥

[jothra]

Bok choy is so effing delicious. I've never tried it in soup before, though. How was it?

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I could've left it out and not missed anything. Or used regular instead of baby bok choy, it pretty much cooked down to not much. I've used adult bok choy in more Asian-style soups and it's delicious. In this, not so much, but I wanted something green in it. Maybe collards or kale next time. They'd cook down enough to soften and add some mmm-nutritious dark greens to it.

[batyatoon]

Ooh that sounds tasty. :D

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

I used LOTS of carrots and celery and potatoes. I always feel cheated when there's not enough of those key ingredients in my stew.

Probably, it would've been equally as tasty with a mushroom gravy base. Next time I think I'll do that. The cream of tomato was a little sweet, and I had to compensate for that with more salt than I might otherwise use.

[batyatoon]

I'm not supposed to have white potatoes much these days, but it might work well with a combination of sweet potatoes and turnips instead.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's one of those whatever's-in-your-fridge recipes. You could also always sub out the potatoes for large-cut zucchini, or cook with portobello mushrooms chopped large too if you like their texture.

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

That sounds really good! What kind of soy chicken do you like? I can only get the Morningstar breaded kind here, and I *do* cook with it, but the breading dissolves, of course.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Morningstar also makes an unbreaded chik patty; I can find that one sometimes. Also, the Quorn Naked Chik'n Cutlets are pretty good, the mycoprotein has a little bit of a different texture. I've used both of those but I like to use these guys (http://www.lightlife.com/product_detail.jsp?p=smartstripschickn) in my cooking. They're not as salty as the Morningstar ones, so if I'm going to re-cook I prefer them. That said, I really like the Morningstar breaded chik patties chopped up in salads and sometimes I'll add them as an afterthought to soups. Most of the flavor is in the breading and they know it.

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

Oh, man! They have that brand in my grocery store (I have the bacon in my fridge right now) but I've never seen it in "chicken" flavor before. I'll have to ask the manager if they can order it.

The local sandwich place uses the Morningstar patties to make vegetarian chicken parmaesan (how do you spell that? every way I try, the spell check says is wrong) sandwiches - yummo!

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Parmesan (you're welcome).

If they can get one Lightlife product, I'm sure they can get the others too! Good luck.

[genarti]

Mmm, that sounds tasty. I don't think I've ever tried putting fake meat in a soup that wasn't chili. I'll have to try that sometime!

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do it all the time! Add a little protein to the veggie stuff, keeps us all healthier. I hope you like it when you do try it.