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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Lights, Camera Action!
The other day when the boys asked to borrow the flip camera, I had no idea something this cute would result. They had told me simply that they wanted to video tape their stuffed animals. Check out this adorable (I may be biased) video they created for the “Kentucky Animal Shelter.” You’ll have to watch it the whole thing if you want to catch some of the B-man’s comedy efforts!
Mouthwatering Monday – Slow Cooker Potato Soup
Happy Monday everyone!
So with the crazy work week and all the chaos in the kitchen this weekend (see this blog post), I wasn’t able to whip up anything “mouthwatering” last week. I mentioned this on Twitter last night and my friend Carla generously offered to let me share her slow cooker potato soup recipe (adapted from two different recipes). She’d tweeted about it earlier in the week and I’d drooled over her Twitpic. This is one recipe you can bet I’ll be making soon!
INGREDIENTS
- 8 cups peeled, diced potatoes
- 1 small onion, finely diced
- 6 ounces bacon, cooked, drained, crumbled
- 8 ounces low fat cream cheese
- 3 cans fat-free chicken broth
- 1 can 98% fat free cream of chicken soup
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
DIRECTIONS
In a 4-quart or larger slow cooker, combine potatoes, onion and bacon. In large mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, chicken broth, cream of chicken soup and pepper, stirring until blended. Add soup mixture to slow cooker and stir to blend. Cover. Cook on low heat for 10 hours or high heat for 5 hours. Before serving, mash some of the potatoes to thicken the soup. Serve with a dollop of fat-free sour cream and chopped green onions or chives. Makes 8 servings.
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION (1 serving = 1/8 of recipe)
- Calories: 261
- Fat: 8g
- Carbohydrates: 32g
- Sodium: 1001mg
- Cholesterol: 22mg
- Fiber: 3g (leave skin on potatoes for an extra gram of fiber)
- Calories from fat: 30%
This post is part of Mouthwatering Monday. Click on the link and check out more great recipes!
Tackling the Pantry: Auditioning for A&E’s Hoarders
This weekend the husband and I decided to take on what we thought was a ‘little’ project, painting our pantry closet. Unfortunately, what we thought would take 2-3 hours, ended up taking 3 coats of paint, 6 rolls of shelf-liner, about half our sanity and 2 full days.
These are photos of what our kitchen looked like all weekend. It was so overwhelming. If you know me, you know that I cannot handle having stuff out all over the place. It was so hard to do anything and cooking was pretty much out of the question. I think if the producers from Hoarders would have seen it they just might have been calling…..
UPDATE: My friend Andi asked to see pictures of the newly organized and no-longer overwhelming pantry. Props to my husband Marty for doing 98% of the painting. I had it easy – was in charge of the organizing.
