Spicy Soy Chorizo Summer Soup

Ingredients
1 15.5 ounce can  light kidney beans - rinsed
1 15.5 ounce can dark read kidney beans rinsed
1 large sweet potato- diced
1 medium sized onion - diced
2 stalks celery - diced
1 small jar mild salsa
1 14.5 ouncescan  stewed tomatoes
1/2 of a 12 ounce Trader Joe soy chorizo package(you can use regular pork chorizo)

Toppings
shredded cheddar cheese
shredded cilantro
plain yogurt

Directions
Put all ingredients into a pot.  Cover with water.  Cook until the vegetables are tender.
Serve with tortilla chips, cheese, plain yogurt or sour cream.
I like to add brown rice to my chili.  You could add noodles too!

Perfect Brown and Wild Rice

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups brown rice

1/4 cup wild rice

2 T. olive oil

1/8 tsp. sea salt

4 cups water

Directions

Combine all ingredients in a pot.

Bring to a boil.

Set on simmer and cook for 35 minutes.

Turn heat off and fluff with a fork.

Tim's Perfect Salmon

I can't believe that this recipe is so easy!  Tim always does the grilling.  I decided to try it this time!

Ingredients

Salmon

Fox Point Seasoning or your favorite fish seasoning.  

Cajun Seasoning of your choice

Directions

Heat up your grill.  If you don't know how, have someone teach you.

After your grill is heated up so that any remaining for is burnt off, scrape it clean.

Turn the grill down to low.

Sprinkle your favorite seasonings on the fish.

Put fish on grill for 8 1/2 minutes.  Close lid.

Turn fish over and cook for another 1 1/2 minutes.  

Take fish off of grill and serve.

Cauliflower Mashed "Potatoes"

 This is a great, low-carb alternative to mashed potatoes.

Ingredients

1 head cauliflower cut up into pieces
1/8  tsp garlic salt

¼ tsp pepper
1/8 parmesan cheese
½ tsp sea salt

Directions

Steam cauliflower until tender. Put the cauliflower into a blender or mash by hand. Add garlic salt, salt and pepper and then blend until smooth. Sprinkle with dried parsley or garnish with fresh parsley.  Serve. 

My Kind of Muesli

 

     If you look up muesli on the internet or in a cookbook you will find out that you soak it overnight in milk.  This doesn't really appeal to me but the ingredients do. Years ago a friend of mine turned me on to muesli and she just poured almond milk over it, added fresh fruit and ate it up!  I like to eat it with cold rice milk in the summer.  Sometimes I also use kefir which is like a yogurt smoothie already made. I've also used plain yogurt when I'm feeling like I need a thicker breakfast and then it's more like a parfait!  My husband likes to add water to his, put it in the microwave for 2 minutes and then add the rice milk and sliced bananas.  There are so many variations.  Come up with your own favorite way!  I like to premix mine so it's handy and then I don't have to go through the hassle of making it everyday. This recipe makes a big tub of it!  I like to mix it in a paper bag and then fill up the big container and put the rest back in the oatmeal container for when I run out.

Basic ingredients

1 container old fashioned oats

2 cups raisins (Any dried fruit will do. How about using more than one?  Cranberries, apricots, dates, etc.)

1/2 cup ground flax seed

2 cups chopped walnuts (Any kind of nuts will do, you can even mix them up!  Try almonds or pecans.)

rice milk or almond milk or regular milk

fresh fruit

Directions

Pour all ingredients in a large bag or tub.

Shake until all ingredients are evenly mixed.  

Pour into large tub with a lid.

When it's time to eat just scoop out the amount that you want.

Eat hot or cold.

Add water, milk, almond milk, rice milk, kefir, yogurt, etc.

Add strawberries, bananas, blueberries, raspberrries, etc.

Super** Muffins with Rhubarb

Ingredients:

·         1 1/2 cups brown rice flour(you can use any flour)

·         1 cup vanilla soy protein powder**

·         1 tsp baking soda

·         1/2 cup Splenda (you can use regular sugar)

·         1/4 cup canola oil

·         1 cup plain non-fat yogurt(you can use any kind of yogurt, even flavored!)

·         1 egg

·         2 T. ground flaxseed

·         ½ cup chopped walnuts(optional)

·         2 cups rhubarb, chopped into small pieces

·         Rice milk, as needed(you can use regular milk)

**This is why they are Super Muffins...Soy protein works as a flour replacement here, meaning the recipe will work just as well with 2 1/2 cups of flour.

Directions:

Mix flour, protein powder, and soda together in a large bowl. In a smaller bowl, mix together sugar, stevia, oil, yogurt, vanilla, and egg. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Slowly add milk until you have a thick batter, then stir in rhubarb. Spray muffin tin generously with no stick spray.  Bake for 30 minutes in a 350F oven.

Yields 12 good sized muffins.