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Vegetable Soup for a Cold Weekend

January 15, 2024

Fit and Strong, Recipes, Veggie Challenge

Vegetable soup for a cold weekend seems like a natural for me. It's been very cold here in Northeast Ohio this weekend. So making various soups has been my go to response for eating. Here are some snapshots and recipes. Super Quick Salsa Soup Ingredients: 1 jar of mild or medium salsa 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder1/2 teaspoon cilantro2 cans black beans (rinse)1 bag of frozen vegetables (thawed)1 can corn undrained3 cups chicken broth 2 cups shredded cooked chicken Instructions: Dump everything into a pot. Bring just to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for about 10 minutes. Top with shredded cheese, if you like. This is an easy way to get lots of vegetables and especially good if you have "put up" a lot of homemade salsa in the fall. The beans and chicken...

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My Roasting Eggplant in the Air Fryer Experiment

March 10, 2022

Fit and Strong, Food and Drink, Recipes, Veggie Challenge

If you Google how to roast eggplant in the air fryer, you will discover a lot of recipes. Trust me on that. I found lots of different recipes for roasting eggplant, even when I limited my search to using the Air Fryer. I asked in the Becoming Elli Facebook Group (join us there if you haven’t already!) if anyone had any good ideas on what to do with eggplant. People made many suggestions so I have ways to prepare eggplant for a while. I also checked for other eggplant recipes in this site and found one recipe that Chris posted. It sounds good too so I may add that to my list of ways to prepare eggplant. Roasted eggplant was one of the more popular suggestions so...

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Spicing Up My Bland Vegetable Soup

November 11, 2021

Fit and Strong, Food and Drink, Recipes, Veggie Challenge

I made a pot of vegetable soup the other day using my Instant Pot. My son and daughter-in-law were coming to visit and I wanted to have soup since it was one of the first cooler days of fall. I was rushed and just sort of threw the soup together. It wasn't bad but it was rather bland. It definitely needed some spicing up. Here's how I made the soup. I used: Onions Carrots Celery Cabbage Potatoes Chicken Can of diced tomatoes Chicken broth Because I was rushed, I didn't sauté any of the vegetables before adding the other ingredients. I decided it didn't really matter. The Instant Pot was full, almost overly so. I cooked the soup and served it up right away when my guests...

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Green Goodness Salad Dressing

April 1, 2021

Fit and Strong, Food and Drink, Recipes, Veggie Challenge

You're going to like this Green Goodness Salad Dressing. I recently reviewed the Wild About Greens cookbook by Nava Atlas and thought I would try to make something out of the cookbook. I chose to make the Green Goodness Salad Dressing. As you can see in the photograph, this dressing is a gorgeous green color. It's just lovely. Green Goodness Salad Dressing 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil 2 good handfuls of baby spinach leaves 1/2 cup peeled seeded and chopped cucumber 1/2 cup firmly packed fresh parsley Two tablespoons lemon juice Two tablespoons white or red wine vinegar One tablespoon chopped fresh dill or one teaspoon dried dill Freshly ground pepper to taste Place all ingredients in the container of a food processor. Process until all that remains of the parsley is tiny flakes. refrigerate the unused...

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Frittata with Pepper Stir Fry Veggie Challenge

Frittata with Pepper Stir Fry Isn’t Cheating on the Challenge

February 27, 2021

Food and Drink, Veggie Challenge

In one of the recent podcasts I was thinking about my Frittata with Pepper Stir Fry breakfast when I said that I was cheating on the 2021 Veggie Challenge. We are all trying to add vegetables to our meals. The challenge for me is to eat more vegetables in my diet. The way I've been cheating is buying frozen vegetable packs and using them instead of cleaning, cutting and preparing fresh veggies. Jill replied that she doesn't think it is cheating, so I've decided to share this "recipe" with all of you. It's very easy and delicious too. Some people cook the eggs in an oven ready pan so they can bake the veggies into the frittata, but I take the easy stove top way instead. Pop...

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Chicken Cucumber Olive Salad

February 13, 2021

Fit and Strong, Recipes, Veggie Challenge

I am loving my new creation of cucumber chicken salad! What is your favorite way to make Chicken Salad? I have found that I really like having chicken salad made with cucumbers, olives, a little celery and onions.. and just a bit of cheese. Sometimes I'll put in Parmesan cheese, other times feta cheese. I've also made this type of cucumber chicken salad by adding a lot of broccoli slaw, but I end up really dicing the broccoli slaw a lot so that it doesn't have a large ribbon of broccoli. I think it fits better with the bite size pieces. Spices I like are dill and parsley with a little bit of regular salt and pepper as well. This time I just used lemon juice and vinegar...

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Creamy Vegetable Soup in the Instant Pot

January 7, 2021

Fit and Strong, Food and Drink, Recipes, Veggie Challenge

I came up with my version of creamy vegetable soup in the Instant Pot. I was out of town unexpectedly recently and left with a refrigerator full of vegetables. When I got back, I realized that I needed to use some of the produce quickly or I was going to have to throw it out. It was more than I could eat in one sitting so I tried to come up with a creative solution. We've shared a variety of vegetable recipes on this site. Chris shared a recipe for vegetable soup. I didn't have enough variety of veggies to make her recipe so had to come up with something different. Creamy Vegetable Soup in the Instant Pot Here’s the recipe I created. I used the Instant Pot for...

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Walking More and Increasing Veggies during the Quarantine

April 20, 2020

Fit and Strong

I've been working on increasing my daily steps and so I've been walking a bit more. Here are a couple of photos from yesterday's walk. The weather here is still mid 40's so walking with a face mask is not a problem. I wear a bandana type face mask and then my neck gaiter from skiing over top of that. I've also been trying to eat more vegetables. Being in quarantine with the days seeming to be the same over and over has caused me to not eat as well as I should. I enjoy eating what my husband cooks, but he definitely cooks for taste and not for calories...

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Veggie Blender Dressing – Tricking Myself into Eating More Vegetables

March 7, 2020

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This veggie blender dressing makes a big difference. Getting lots of vegetables can be more difficult in the winter months. Yesterday I got an idea on how to increase the amount of vegetables I eat. So often I make the same veggies, my Brussel sprouts, cauliflower or my easy no panic potluck salad. I thought, what if I use vegetables as the base of my salad dressing? This is my first attempt. It wasn't bad, but I'm looking forward to making some modifications. Recipe for Veggie Blender Dressing: 1 large Green Pepper 1 Yellow Squash 1 large carrot Each of these veggies were rough chopped and placed into the blender (Vita-Mix) Then I added some liquid: extra virgin olive oil, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice. I blended the mixture on the smoothie setting and...

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Cabbage Soup is Lunch of Choice

March 5, 2020

Food and Drink, Recipes, Veggie Challenge

I am having cabbage soup for lunch today. I made a large batch of soup a few weeks ago and put some containers of it in the freezer to save for later. Today is a cold, snowy day here in Ohio and I’m working from home. I was daydreaming about what I was going to eat for lunch and decided to get a container of soup out of the freezer. Customizing the Soup The best thing about this soup is that I can add to it. When I made this soup originally, I added some cooked chicken and beans to the soup. Today I decided to use up the chopped butternut squash that was in my refrigerator so I chopped it into smaller pieces, coated it with some...

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Vegetable Soup for a Cold Weekend

My Roasting Eggplant in the Air Fryer Experiment

Spicing Up My Bland Vegetable Soup

Green Goodness Salad Dressing

Frittata with Pepper Stir Fry Isn’t Cheating on the Challenge

Chicken Cucumber Olive Salad

Creamy Vegetable Soup in the Instant Pot

Walking More and Increasing Veggies during the Quarantine

Veggie Blender Dressing – Tricking Myself into Eating More Vegetables

Cabbage Soup is Lunch of Choice

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