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Apple Crisp 🍎🍏🍎

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Ingredients:

5-6 apples peeled and sliced (I used honey crisp and gala) 🍎

2 tblsp granulated sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

juice 1/2 lemon 🍋

Mix everything together in a bowl then pour into a buttered casserole dish

In a separate bowl mix:

1 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup all purpose flour

3/4 cup old fashioned oats

1/2 tsp salt

Then cut 1 stick of cold unsalted butter into cubes and add to bowl of the dry ingredients. Use fork or pastry cutter to cut cold butter into the mixture until incorporated.

Sprinkle topping over apples. Top with 1/3 cup of chopped pecans.

Bake for 25/30 minutes until bubbly.

Serve with vanilla ice cream and drizzled sea salt caramel sauce 🍨

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Chicken Soup

First step is making the stock. It could not be simpler!!

Take one whole organic chicken and put it in a large pot. Then ➕

🔆 2 teaspoons of salt

🔆 1 teaspoon of ground pepper

🔆 2 bay leaves

🔆 1 yellow onion cut into quarters

🔆 2 celery stalks with the leaves

🔆 2 carrots cut into large chunks

Fill pot with water and bring to a boil. Turn heat down to medium low and simmer for one hour until chicken is falling apart. Let chicken sit in broth for 1/2 hour once done.

Remove chicken pieces to separate bowl and strain broth with fine mesh sieve.

This broth can be used for so many recipes!!! Any type of soup you can think up, rissotto, rice pilaf, stuffing, sauces or just on its own to sip. This can also be made in an instant pot if u r short on time in about 20 minutes or in your crock pot on low for 4 hours 🤗

Depending on the size of your chicken there is enough meat for two meals, I typically use 2/3 for this chicken soup recipe and 1/3 for a quick next day meal like:

🌿chicken salad

🌿chicken nachos

🌿chicken tacos

🌿 shredded chicken rice bowl

To make chicken soup:

Small dice of:

🔆 1 yellow onion

🔆 2 stalks celery with leaves

🔆 2 carrots

Heat a heavy bottom pan (I use my dutch oven) over medium high heat. Add 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter and one tablespoon of EVOO. Add your diced veggies and season with a good pinch of salt. Sauté until softened, about 5/7 minutes.

Then ➕

🔆 1 heaping tblsp better than bouillon

🔆 1 tsp garlic powder

🔆 1 tsp onion powder

Stir to combine and let cook one minute

Add your homemade stock and bring to a simmer. Simmer for 10 minutes then turn off heat. Add your chicken back in with some fresh chopped parsley and stir to heat thru.

Serve with your favorite pasta, noodle or rice! I always cook separately then spoon soup over the top. This ensures noodles/rice don’t over cook and soak up all your stock. My go-to is ditalini. Top with freshly grated parmesan. I usually serve with some type of bread for dipping. Lately my kiddos are obsessed with kings hawaiian rolls so this week I split them in half and buttered them to make them extra yummy 🤤

I hope you enjoy this delicious treat!!

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Classic Red Sauce

🍅 Pastate (recipe to follow)

🍅 Two large jars tomatoes (fresh from garden will take your sauce to another level!! In a pinch I use glass jarred tomatoes and WF 365 organic tomatoes. I like to use one tomato purée and one tomato chopped)

🍅 one can tomato paste

🍅dried herbs (parsley+ oregano)

🍅Salt to taste ( I give one good pinch into the pastate and another small one before I set sauce to simmer.

Pastate

🧅 one medium onion

🌱one stalk of celery with leaves

🥕one orange carrot

🧄 two cloves garlic

🤏 Salt

drizzle of EVOO (1/4 cup)

Roughly cut all ingredients and put into food processor. Turn on and drizzle in olive oil. Turn off and scrape sides down with rubber spatula. Turn back on and process for 30 more seconds

Turn heat on heavy bottom pot to medium. Once pan is hot add your pastate mixture and turn heat down to med-low.

Sweat your pastate for about 5-7 minutes. The goal here is to steam mixture, not brown.

Add one can tomato paste and 1/2 teaspoon of sugar.

cook down for 2/3 minutes

Add your canned tomatoes slosh jars with water to add extra liquid about 3/4 cup.

Add dried parsley and dried oregano. Stir everything together and taste for seasoning.

Bring mixture to a simmer.Put lid on then turn down heat to low. Cook 20/25 minutes

You can use an emulsion blender to achieve a thinner sauce.

Serve with

-pasta

-meatballs

-chicken cutlets

-eggplant parm

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Looking for a great carb free option the whole family will love? This recipe can be altered to be dairy free if u omit the butter and vegetarian if you substitute meat for tofu. (If you take this route you must add lots of seasoning bc tofu is a blank canvas. Think S+P, garlic powder, onion powder,turmeric,and coriander one of my favorite spice blends 🥰 )

This meal is one pot and perfect for a quick weeknight dinner.

Spaghetti squash with creamed leeks n greens

Roast 1 spaghetti squash whole in oven @ 400 until soft (depending on size 20-40 min)

After it cools cut in 1/2 and scoop out “spaghetti”

While it’s roasting make sauce:

Choice of ground: beef, pork, turkey or chicken

🟪Brown over medium high heat n remove from pan

🟦Slice a leek and add to pan with one tblsp butter. Season with salt and sauté until softened.

🟩Add 2 cloves minced garlic and a 5oz. container of fresh spinach, cook 1 min

🟨Add one can of full fat coconut milk

🟧Add back in cooked meat

🟪Simmer sauce for about 5 minutes and test for seasoning (I typically add a lil more salt, pepper, and garlic powder here.

🟦Pour over spaghetti squash n top with fresh chopped herbs I like parsley and cilantro. Chive is also nice here. 🪴

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Lately I’ve been experimenting with non alcoholic beverage recipes. I love to put them in a wine glass and your guests would love this too!! This is lemonade topped with lemon seltzer and it’s divine 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋

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Today’s lunch was a mosh of leftovers!

-bed of mixed greens

-handful of spinach

-bunch of cilantro (torn w/hands)

-leftover salmon quinoa cake

-olives

-marinated beets

-2 baby gerkins sliced

-1 floret raw broccoli roughly chop

-1 shredded carrot

I topped my greens w/ a drizzle of EVOO and S+P with a drizzle of fresh Orange juice.

I topped my salmon cake w simple dressing of mayo (1 tblsp.) ketchup (2 tsp.) Dashes of: S+P, garlic powder, onion powder and about a tsp. of pickle juice.

This Italian mineral water goes perfectly ♥️ I fell in love with mineral water when I lived in Italy and you will too!!

If u don’t have leftover salmon cakes :) you could use many different protein alternatives:

-Chicken

-Shrimp

-Hard boiled egg

-a couple slices of deli meat

-tofu

Happy eating ☺️☺️☺️

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When everyone in my house starts sniffling I whip up a batch of these hot toddies!

2 cups water 💦

2 tablespoons honey 🍯

Juice of one lemon 🍋

Heat all ingredients in sauce pan over medium heat till just simmering.

I pour a shot of fireball into the adult glasses then top with mixture.

All glasses get cinnamon stick

I try and use the least processed ingredients I can find. This honey takes it to another level!

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Getting ready to make a batch of creamy vegetable soup 🥣 my kids come back for seconds and it’s super easy to make. Check me out at #nemodernmama on tumblr for the recipe 🥰 https://www.instagram.com/p/B7rFgqiJ4wP7oD-jQ-TwSh8bFfdCquvkIgUwiA0/?igshid=gxtciif7ahbs