Sausage macaroni

Couldn't really decide on a good name for this.  I had some fresh corn put up in the freezer.  Some ranch dip.  Some leftover sausage links.

• cooked up some macaroni
• boiled 2 ears of corn, cut it off the cob
• crumbled up the sausage
• mixed it all together with the dip and a knorr cilantro cube
• added a little salt, pepper, and california style garlic salt

Not bad...

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Sprouts

grow your own sprouts in your kitchen cabinet :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouting

http://www.isga-sprouts.org/

lots of information out there about how to do this but here are my simple instructions:

using a pint size wide mouth jar and a lid similar to the one shown in the above wikipedia article but without the thing that allows the jar to continue draining on its side...

I use a tablespoon of the seeds - (I'm using a mixed blend of seeds I bought at a health food store).  Dump those in the jar and add water to cover.  Allow to soak overnight, sitting on the counter.  The next day drain off the water and dry off the jar and set it in the kitchen cabinet.  Every day take the jar out of the cabinet, fill with water, swirl it around and drain the water again.  Dry off the jar and place it back in the cabinet.  When sprouts are fully sprouted (~4-5 days) move them to the fridge (in a baggie, or tupperware like container - whatever), clean your jar and start some more lol.

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Turkey Stuffing Meatloaf Muffins

Okay I googled for a recipe for these - found a lot of them.  Printed out one to go by from recipezaar.  But it seemed kind of plain.

Here is that recipe as is/was:

Meatloaf Muffins with Stove Top Stuffing

1 (6 ounce) box Stove Top stuffing mix (any flavor is fine)
2 eggs
1 cup water
2 lbs ground beef or turkey

Mix all ingredients.
Spray muffin tins with Pam
Fill muffin tins to top
Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes

My Changes

Intentional

1. I used only 1 lb of ground turkey, my Stove Top mix was turkey as well.
2. I heated my cup of water and dropped a chicken bouillon cube and a cilantro bouillon cube into it.
3. I chopped up a fresh clove of garlic and about 1/4 cup of onion and green pepper and added that.
4. I also added salt, pepper, garlic salt, basil, and oregano

Unintentional
I had planned to use an amount of 'better than eggs' product equal to one egg, not two as the recipe called for, but I forgot to add any at all - it was quite good and didn't fall apart...so I was rather happy with my mistake.

The results :)

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Broccoli soup

chop up a nice head of broccoli in a pot of water with a chopped onion, cook until tender, mash with a potato masher

add a chicken bouillon cube, salt, pepper, California style garlic salt, butter, and cubed velveeta to taste


if you'd like it a bit thicker you can melt some butter in a smaller pan - add flour, cook that up a bit, mix a little water with that and add it to your soup pot as a thickener, & you could always add a dash of milk if desired

I use to throw this in a blender or use one of those all purpose mixers to pretty much puree it, but that's a step I usually omit these days to save myself some dishes, some water, and some precious time lol

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Purple Artichokes with garlic mayo

Boil artichokes in large pot of water with some butter (I used smart choice blend) some California style garlic salt and a squeeze of lemon juice if you have it, until tender, it can take up to an hour for several large artichokes, remove from pot with large tongs and drain upside down on paper towels.

Chop fresh garlic into some mayo (I used smart choice mayo too), stir that up and put back in the fridge until you are ready for it.

Remove the paper towels, turn the artichokes over and mash down on them to make them 'bloom'

Enjoy your snack :)
If you've never eaten an artichoke, what you do is pull off a leaf, dip the bottom of the leaf into your dip and scrape the soft inner part of the leaf off with your bottom teeth and toss the rest of the leaf...
when you get down to the heart - remember to remove the fluffy choke part - it usually pulls off quite nicely - then slice up the heart and fight over it lol.

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Stuffed summer squash

Start with a cooked pot of rice, some cooked sausage, and whatever else you think would be good in a pot of dirty rice.  Crumble some sausage into the rice, add some chopped onion, chopped green pepper is good, shredded cheese of your choice, spices to taste, salt, pepper, California blend garlic salt, steakhouse grind, Mrs. dash etc - Not necessarily all of those but whatever turns you on at the time.  Mix the rice thoroughly.

(oh god don't look at the side of my stove - yes I am ashamed, but I use the time I could be cleaning the side of the stove to read to my son, or take walks with him... really!  Of course now I'll have to clean it lol)

Take your pick of zucchini or yellow summer squash - big enough specimens to stuff of course... slice lengthwise and scoop out the seeds (feed those to the chickens if you have some lol) stuff the squash with your dirty rice mixture


and top with slices of bacon

Bake at 350 degrees until bacon is crisp and squash is tender.  Cut larger squash such as these in sections to serve.

Enjoy!

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