Originally this was going to be one big long recipe post, but I decided that was nuts. Just too much to read in one sitting, and not good for printing if you do that sort of thing. So I broke the post into several, by category.
Soups/Chilis
Butternut squash soup
I'm so surprised and happy that my kids will eat this! The recipe comes from Whole Foods. I only changed it a tiny bit - no celery, veggie broth, and my thyme is dried. Both kids enjoy it, and Aaron prefers it to the crockpot version I make which incorporates apples.
Split pea soup
What a great way to get my kids to eat green food! Aaron makes this delightful concoction, no recipe as is his cooking style. Ingredients: 1 lb. bag of split peas, a bunch of diced carrots (maybe equiv. to 2-3?), some diced onion (probably 1 onion?), veggie bouillon with about 6 cups of water, a few potatoes chopped. Put it all in the crockpot and let it cook on low all day. Mash ingredients sometime before serving.
Ellie particularly likes seeing the bits of carrots. Caleb likes knowing that he'll be "strong like moose" when he eats this.
Turkey chili
Ever since we all returned to eating like omnivores, Aaron insisted on revisiting our chili "recipe." In the past, we (read: mostly Aaron) made a mighty fine vegetarian chili with 4-5 types of beans and texturized veggie protein (read: soy product often used as ground meat substitute). Since Aaron typically makes this dish, I don't have a real recipe. I can give you a rough idea though, at least of the proportions.
In the morning, put the following in your slow-cooker/Crock Pot:
- 4 cans (~16 oz. each) of different beans, at least some of these should be kidney beans. We also like adding black beans, black-eyed peas, and pinto beans. It depends on what we have around.
- At least 1 large onion, chopped.
- Corn (Caleb's addition to our chili)
- Chopped bell peppers. If you have a Trader Joe's, you can buy the frozen "Melange a Trois" which has red, yellow and green peppers. OK, so it's not as good as fresh peppers from the garden, but you do what you can in a New England winter.
- Garlic (but wait on other spices until later)
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