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NJCher

(37,922 posts)
Thu Jun 20, 2024, 03:20 PM Jun 2024

What's for Dinner, Thurs., June 20, 2024

I've found a new interest during this hot weather: cold, pureed soups. They are so easy to make. It also suits the fact that I had dental work yesterday, and am not supposed to chew anything for a while. Fine with me.

Yesterday I made celeriac soup with a little cauliflower. It also had celery leaves. The best part is that I could use some of the leek broths I've made over the last week. I added coconut milk to round the soup out. It turned out to be a pale green and was absolutely delicious. I added sausage crumbles, per the recipe, and that added a salty note.

I had a big leek crop and while you can chop the white and light green part for freezing, most freezing guidelines don't recommend the greener part of the leek. They say it's ideal to make soup broth with this part of the leek, though, so that's what I did. I have 3 frozen gallon-size bags in the freezer and a few more to make. This is so much fun! I just love this part of gardening--creating healthy food from what I've grown.

Another advantage to leek broth is that you can cut out the chopped onion step. This makes putting together a pureed soup much easier.

Tonight I'm making Hungarian Mushroom Soup (recipe by Mollie Katzen). I've made this many times, and it's a good chilled soup.

BTW, for anyone interested, Mollie's Enchanted Broccoli Forest cookbook has around 20 recipes for cold/pureed soups. Included in that are cold fruit soups!

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What's for Dinner, Thurs., June 20, 2024 (Original Post) NJCher Jun 2024 OP
Pics of Homegrown Celery NJCher Jun 2024 #1
Looks perfect! AKwannabe Jun 2024 #3
Thanks for the pictures of the celeraic and celery Marthe48 Jun 2024 #5
Beautiful! Retrograde Jun 2024 #8
Happy Summer Solstice! AKwannabe Jun 2024 #2
I made a chicken burger Marthe48 Jun 2024 #4
Rotisserie chicken PJMcK Jun 2024 #6
Try cold fruit soups for dessert Retrograde Jun 2024 #7

Marthe48

(19,053 posts)
5. Thanks for the pictures of the celeraic and celery
Thu Jun 20, 2024, 04:39 PM
Jun 2024

Interesting to see homegrown

Hope your recovery from dental goes fast

Retrograde

(10,659 posts)
8. Beautiful!
Thu Jun 20, 2024, 10:35 PM
Jun 2024

celery doesn't do well in my climate, but I'm trying some Chinese cutting celery in a pot to see if I can get it to a point where it's usable.

AKwannabe

(6,363 posts)
2. Happy Summer Solstice!
Thu Jun 20, 2024, 04:01 PM
Jun 2024

Weather in the PNW isn’t as hot as some places so today is actually like a summer day! Woot!

Poolside with friends. Grilling chicken satay.
Made peanut sauce and a Napa cabbage slaw. Harvested the bigger leaves of the cabbage and those will be used for lettuce cups. Also have chowmein noodles to rehydrate

Drinks include Malibu Rum blended or over ice with pineapple juice, beer and Moscow Mules.

Marthe48

(19,053 posts)
4. I made a chicken burger
Thu Jun 20, 2024, 04:38 PM
Jun 2024

Topped with cheddar cheese, grilled onion, raw onion, chili sauce, mayo on a slightly toasted bun.

Some ice cream for dessert

Retrograde

(10,659 posts)
7. Try cold fruit soups for dessert
Thu Jun 20, 2024, 10:34 PM
Jun 2024

cook the fruits (overripe ones work well) with a stick of cinnamon and maybe some sugar and lemon, remove the pits and run the rest through a food mill, and mix with cream/milk/sour cream/yogurt - whichever you have on hand.

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