Hello fellow foodies and food lovers, I am back I know it has been awhile but with life and some health issues I got out of the routine of making food happy and exciting..........! I started just doing what was easy and simple, I stopped allowing myself to get inspired in the stores and farmers markets. Though I have been able to remain healthy and lose weight and keep it off I stopped looking forward to food. Be it breakfast lunch or dinner. It was because of that lack of passion my cravings for the things sweets and snacks I had been keeping at bay came knocking on my door and tempting me. Being human sometimes the temptation was to strong and I would give in and after not so much feeling guilty but would say to myself I know better! So after A. being remind by my husband about my blog I also decide coming back to you guys would help make food exciting again. I know there is not many of you that fallow this blog, but really it is not about who reads it really it is an outlet for me to share and explore my love for food and finding the passion for it again.
Reading the title of this post may be a bit confusing of how and why a common cold may spark me to uncover my passion for food, but I think it is the perfect time. Few days ago I woke up with a cold in the middle of summer crazy but true and though I never really have time for a cold I am less then a week from surgery and need this cold gone and gone now!! So sitting at home drinking water and tea craving soup but not having the energy I could hear those cravings getting louder and louder and my mind went right to take out and WONTON soup. Wontons are pretty much filled pasta in a over sodium broth that after getting to I realized first off this is really not all that good and not really what I was after. Sure it was hot and soothing on my throat but there was nothing healthy and replenishing in that wonton soup for my body to recover from this cold and get me ready for surgery. So the next day I reached out to my friends via Face Book pealing for help and my sister said garlic soup. Going back to the other day of craving and wanting soup at the same time giving into a craving and getting soup that one did not taste good and two did nothing for me I knew making soup was my best option and garlic soup seemed simple enough. So I asked my sister how do you make garlic soup half expecting a long lengthy process that I did not have the ingredients for nor the energy. But she replied by saying just thin slice lots of garlic and stock boil until garlic is cooked! Simple yes but a little to simple. Not to simple in that I had all this energy to be in the kitchen pepping chopping and cooking for really for the 20 minuets, but to simple in the fact that this was doing to jobs. Helping to fight a cold and be enough and filling to be a meal. So i started to think not only of what I had on hand but what I wanted this soup to do for me. "I was putting this soup to work" I wanted it to be filling and i wanted nourishment for my body. so I came up with a kale, carrot and white bean garlic soup!
What you will need:
3 medium carrots peeled and chopped
1/2 an onion chopped
1 teaspoon fresh thyme
8 cloves of garlic sliced thin
1 can white beans rinsed
1 head of kale steams removed and chopped
1 tablespoon of olive oil
salt and pepper to taste
Tip because carrots and onions can take a bit longer to cook you will want to cook the together with the olive oil for about 5 min on medium high heat to give them a head start! Then just add everything else to pot abut simmer 15-20 minutes until garlic is cooked.
The final product healthy filling and nourishing for the body with no guilt. So remember always be excited about your food and if you find yourself no longer excited about what your eating we can change that and we can do it together. until next time.