Cabbage soup and sweet and sour coleslaw

I had a head of cabbage in the fridge for a couple of days thinking of what I should do with it. I got some inspiration at the farmers market in some beautiful leeks I found, I made cabbage soup with half of it and made sweet and sour coleslaw with the other half.

Cabbage soup

1/2 head of cabbage
2 leaks white and green parts cleaned well and sliced
10 cloves of garlic crushed
1 turnip diced
half head of cauliflower diced
handful of cut green beans
2 carrots sliced (optional higher carb but for daughter)
3-4 tablespoons butter
5 cups of water
3 large bouillon cubes
black pepper to taste

Saute leeks, turnip, cauliflower, green beans, carrots and garlic in butter till slightly softened, not brown, then add cabbage and saute a bit more. Add water and bouillon cubes, simmer for 20 minutes. That's it! Now on to the coleslaw.

Sweet and sour coleslaw

Half a head of cabbage shredded
half a bell pepper diced
half a red pepper diced
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 tablespoons of mayo
2 tablespoons truvia
2 tablespoons light olive oil
1 teaspoon of dry mustard
1-2 teaspoons of celery seeds

Mix and chill.

 

Breakfast biscuit sandwich

Since I made those wonderful biscuits a couple of days ago I have been thinking to make a breakfast biscuit sandwich. I layered on a sliced biscuit a couple slices of bacon, an egg with shredded cheese, and a tiny blob of sugar free blackberry jam.

A perfect Sunday breakfast!

Authentic salsa

Everyone knows I love kitchen gadgets. My Hubby gave me a Mexican "food processor" a molcajete. He's demonstrating how to make the most wonderful authentic salsa. First I broiled everything until it was charred removing the skins. He used 3 tomatoes, about 6 chilies, 2 cloves  garlic, and some really good coarse salt.

Start with the chilies and coarse salt gently pulverize them together.

Then add the garlic cloves and tomatoes.

Mmm this salsa was so good!

Really good biscuits

I found this recipe here

I followed the recipe perfectly as written except I halved it. I must say these are so delicious. The ones on the left are plain and the ones on the right I brushed with butter they don't look much different. I portioned them with a large spring loaded scoop and flattened them a bit. I got exactly 6. Next time I make them I will sweeten them a bit more because that's the way I like them.

They were divine with my new jar of sugar free blackberry jam. They would be equally good with some sugar free honey.

Chopped salad lettuce wraps

We decided to have a meatless dinner tonight. I was feeling like a nice salad so this is what we made.

I got 2 lovely heads of butter lettuce, I didn't even want to tear it up so we left the leaves whole and put the chopped salad and dressing on and then wrapped them up.

Chopped salad lettuce wraps

head of butter lettuce separate the leaves
2 tomatoes diced
2 jalapenos diced
1 red pepper chopped
english cucumber sliced
daikon radish noodles
green onion chopped
red cabbage chopped
radishes sliced
broccoli florets
shelled edamame
toasted pinenuts
cracked black pepper
blue cheese dressing

simply put the chopped salad on the lettuce leaves, top with toasted pinenuts, blue cheese dressing, and cracked black pepper roll up and eat.

If you wanted to add some meat I think it would be good with some sliced steak, shredded chicken, or shrimp. We just wanted something light, we had some of our leftover jalapeno soy chicken wings earlier in the day.

Jalapeno soy wings

 Jalapeno soy wings

3 pounds chicken wings
3 large jalapenos (mine were from the garden)
1 inch fresh peeled ginger (also from the garden)
6 green onions chopped
1/2 cup soy sauce I used wheat free
1/4 cup rice wine vinegar
3 tablespoons of toasted sesame oil
1/4 cup sesame seeds

Add jalapenos, ginger, soy sauce, green onions, vinegar, and sesame oil in a food processor and process till smooth, marinate wings 2 hours to overnight in a freezer bag (the longer the better) drain, bake on a sheet pan in a hot 450 oven for about 30 minutes I like mine well browned, sprinkle the sesame seeds on top and bake a few more minutes. They are very mild, double the jalapenos if you want them more spicy. I served it with edamame.

Hot chicken salad

Hot chicken salad

I didn't measure just eyeballed it, it's very yummy!

leftover shredded or cubed chicken
finely diced celery, red pepper, and onion to taste
sprinkling of slivered almonds or sunflower seeds
about a cup of mayo
about a cup shredded sharp cheddar
a little mustard
herbamare or salt and pepper to taste
tarragon or any herb you want

mix everything, saving half nuts or seeds, and half of cheese for the top turn into a greased casserole dish bake at 375 for 25 to 30 minutes