How Animals Eat Their Food
- At April 12, 2013
- By Roxanne Snopek
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I didn’t feel like posting a recipe today because eggs, spinach and goat cheese swirled together in a frying pan isn’t much of a recipe and that’s what I’m making tonight. (Spinach Eggs works with my Wheat Belly diet, on which I’m pleased to report a general shrinkage of my wheat belly. Toast would be awesome with these eggs. Toast would be awesome, period. But I’m all about the shrinkage right now so… no toast. :()
If you don’t think this is hilarious, well… too bad.
Rustic Potato-Leek Soup
- At March 22, 2013
- By Roxanne Snopek
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You might already know this, but I’m an extemporaneous cook. Recipes are guidelines. Creativity rules. Therefore, my instructions can be a bit… vague. But really, when it comes to soup, how wrong can you go??
This week, my youngest spawn is lying on the couch with tonsils the size and colour of rotten plums. When they’ve been sitting in the fridge drawer for, I don’t know, a couple of months. Between the pain, and the appetite-killing antibiotics, she’s not eating much. But soup works, so here’s what I did today.
Chop up an onion, a couple of leeks and a bunch of potatoes. Toss them into a pot, where you’ve got a couple of tablespoons of oil heating. Sweat everything until the onions are clear and limp. Add a box of chicken broth. Cook until potatoes are soft. Puree the whole thing with your hand-held mixer-thing. You can use a blender if you’re careful. I have a history of cleaning soup off the ceiling, hence the hand-held device. Add salt and pepper to taste. (I use sea salt. It just tastes better.) Last, add about a cup of cream, half-and-half or evaporated milk. I use evaporated milk, because of, you know, cholesterol. It would taste awesome with heavy cream though.
Garnish with flat-leafed parsley and/or fresh chives. I thought cheese would be a nice addition. My daughter liked it with Gruyere. I liked it with Asiago.
Super-easy soup, especially for the pathetic tonsillitis-afflicted spawn lying on my couch. Warm and smooth on the throat.
As soon as I figure out Windows 8, I’ll add photos.
Don’t hold your breath.
Interview and Kindle Giveaway!
- At March 11, 2013
- By Roxanne Snopek
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Hello friends! As many of you know, I’m deep in the midst of a multi-stop blog tour to celebrate the release of His Reluctant Rancher, the second in the Three River Ranch series. The tour-wide giveaway is a KINDLE – how cool is that? And you’ve got opportunities to enter at each blog stop. Some of the stops include reviews of the book; some are guest blog posts by me; some are interviews. The interviews are a lot of fun, and this one at Herding Cats & Burning Soup went particularly well. Good chemistry, I think! Sigh. How I love book bloggers…
Do take a look and let me know what you think. Don’t forget to enter to win! That’s my bribe. (And don’t feel that because you actually know me in, like, real life, that you shouldn’t enter. I’d LOVE to give my prize to someone I know in, like, real life. The “like” is a nod to my lovely daughter Pik, who cannot seem to utter a sentence without it. I mean, like, I like the word like too, but like, I don’t need to, like, use it in, like, every sentence.)
The rest of the tour is posted here, and goes something like this:
Official Blog Tour Stops
Wednesday, 2/27 – Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews
Friday, 3/1 – What I’m Reading
Monday, 3/4 – Romancing Rakes for the Love of Romance
Wednesday, 3/6 – Bookin’ It Reviews
Friday, 3/8 – Herding Cats & Burning Soup
Monday, 3/11 – RhiReading
Tuesday, 3/12 – The Book Cellar
Thursday, 3/14 – Urban Girl Reader
Friday, 3/15 – Janna Shay’s Fair Play
Monday, 3/18 – My Reading Room
Wednesday, 3/20 – Whispers at Moonlight
Friday, 3/22 – Ramblings From This Chick
And for anyone wishing to, like, clean up their language, here is a step-by-step program:
Don’t forget to hit “LIKE” after reading.