1/4 t chili and garlic smoked sea salt (or sea salt)
1 T olive oil
1 C cheese, grated
coleslaw
Instructions
Combine seasonings. Toss potatoes with 1/2 T olive oil and half of seasonings. Bake at 375F for 35 minutes.
Heat pan. Add olive oil. When hot, add onion, bell pepper, and remaining seasonings. Cook for 5 minutes, over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Add garlic, and beans, and cook for 2 minutes. Add soup and cook 3 minutes more, stirring often.
Divide the potatoes into two piles and top with bean mixture and then cheese. Bake 3-5 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
Cook pasta. Reserve 3/4 to 1 C pasta water, then drain and keep warm.
Heat pan, add butter and oil. Let it brown over medium heat. Add broccoli, salt, pepper, and cayenne, and cook over medium or medium-low heat for 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook 1 minute more.
Whisk pasta water with mustard, lemon juice, and maple syrup. Pour over broccoli and cook 1 minute. Remove from heat and let stand while you grate the parmesan cheese. Toss the pasta with the cheese.
Notes
You could change this up so easily to suit your tastes, and what’s in your pantry. Squash, cauliflower, fennel, carrots, onions, more garlic, less garlic… you get the picture. Use what you have and what you like!
I love cold nights warmed by steaming bowls of soup. It’s soup season and I fully intend to take advantage of it. Freshly made, reheated, at home, out with friends… it’s one of my all time favorite comfort foods.
Did you ever watch the Seinfeld episode where they aren’t allowed to buy soup anymore? I always get so frustrated when people have food to eat, on a show, and they can’t. I don’t know why it bothers me so much. But, it does. I think I would be devastated if I had to wait one year to come back for soup.
Do you like fennel? I didn’t think I did. But, I’ve discovered that I do. Especially in Mac and Cheese, roasted, and in soups.
Heat soup pot. Add olive oil. When oil is hot, add fish and cook, over med-low heat for 3 minutes. Add veggies, salt and pepper. Increase heat to medium, and cook covered, for 10 minutes.
Add vinegar, stir to deglaze the pan (scrape off any browned bits from the bottom).
Whisk together flour and 1/4 C water. Add to soup pot. Stir. Add hot water.
Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Cook 15-20 minutes, or until veggies are tender and fish is cooked.
Remove from heat and add milk, cream, and fennel pollen. Stir. Add lemon. Stir. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary.
Pre-heat oven to 350F. Slice chicken almost all the way through, lengthwise, creating a flap. Stuff with 2 pieces of gruyère and 1 piece of prosciutto. Close flap and spread the top with dijon, a sprinkle of salt, pepper, paprika, and flour.
Grease a 9×13 baking dish. Pour in water. Place chicken in pan, mustard side up.
Bake for 45 minutes. Sprinkle with parmesan and bake 15-20 minutes more (or until chicken reaches 175F).
Spread 1/4 T dijon over one side of each chicken thigh. Season it with salt and pepper. Sprinkle it with flour.
Heat skillet. Add olive oil. When hot, shake excess flour from chicken and place in pan, mustard side down.
Top each thigh with remaining mustard, salt, pepper, flour, and 1 T butter. Place lid on pan and cook over low heat for 8-10 minutes. Flip and cook 8-10 minutes more, or until chicken reaches 180F.