Showing posts with label carrot soup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carrot soup. Show all posts

Thursday, October 27, 2011

epic salad or taco bell?

My boyfriend has weekly lunches at work and usually they go get fast food. As a retaliation to the Taco Bell he was going to have that day I made an epic salad. See? Green can be tasty!

This salad had:

- baby spinach
- sliced red pepper
- sliced avocado (yum!)
- almonds
- Olive Oil Parmesan Pesto Dressing

On the side I had rice crackers and some leftover carrot soup.

Take that Taco Bell!

Emilie

Saturday, October 22, 2011

saturday is for cooking

Saturday is a magical day. I had a HUGE to do list and I'm pretty sure I got 75% of it done which is pretty good!

I caught up on some shows while having breakfast.

Big hole bagel with cherry jam.

After a rather intense cycling class at the gym I was famished for some lunch. I "whipped" up a carrot, sweet potato and dill soup with some grated butter biscuits.


The biscuits are a very easy recipe that works on the premise of using very cold or frozen butter. Grate it with a cheese grater instead of having to use a pastry cuter. It works like a charm and gives a very fluffy result.


I used a cookie cutter to make the biscuits. The hearts where my favorite. A perfect crispy bite in the smooth soup.


I was pretty close to just posting this picture; I'm so proud of it. It might be the prettiest picture I've ever taken (according to me at least). Yeah, it's a bowl of soup. But isn't it the prettiest bowl of soup you've ever seen?

This day was not complete without a sweet treat. I made some "healthy" chocolate chip cookies from the cook book I made the black bean brownies from.


The recipe said the dough would be crumbly, but that was an understatement. I couldn't even get them to hold together. After playing with them for a while I eventually just added some applesauce and a bit more oil. I also accidentally dumped a cup of large chocolate chips into the bowl instead of 1/2 a cup of mini chocolate chips. Oops!

Did you make anything wonderful today?

Emilie