Dumplings! (link/replacement)

Ohh, did these work out well! They did not fall apart at all in the soup if cooked as instructed. REPLACE soy milk, with coconut milk or almond milk. Leave the chives OUT.

Wonderful Stew Dumplings Recipe

l'chaim!
~Miriam

Sugar Pumpkin or Butternut Squash Soup

This recipe is based losely on a number of recipes I researched and tried out. I found the simplest approach to my version be best. The soup is already complex tasting if you pick ripe in season vegetables (local is even better).

2 sugar pumpkins or 2 large butternut squash

3 C chicken stock
1 C full fat coconut milk (canned)
1/2 t. ground nutmeg (fresh grind will be better)
1 t. ground sage
2-3 teaspoons salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Cut pumpkins/butternut squash in half and scoop out seeds. Spray a large glass baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Place pumpkins/butternut squash, flesh side down on the baking dish and roast until soft to the touch or when poked with a fork through the skin, about 45 minutes. Remove pumpkins/butternut squash from oven and let them cool down. Once they are cool enough to handle scrape flesh from skins into a food processor. Discard the skins.

Add chicken stock to the pumpkin and puree. Pour soup into a large saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Stir in full fat coconut milk, nutmeg, sage and salt. Mix well and remove from heat. Garnish with parsley.

Serve with Big Buttermilk Biscuits and a lettuce and tomato salad with a simple oil/vinegar dressing.

Cheers!
~Miriam

Best Chicken Soup for Colds/Flu EVER (Link/adjustments)

Best Chicken Soup for Colds and Flu Recipe

Adjusting this amazing hot and spicey soup for low sulfur is super easy.

Simply do NOT add:

• the onions
• the cumin
• the cilantro, or
• the scallions
  

Otherwise, you can use this recipe with great abandon and add mushrooms, zucchini, potatoes, extra jalapeños or whatever, and (as we do) replace the white pasta with just-cooked brown rice to give it more nutritional punch.

I swear by this soup, it is truly medicine, especially if you're using free-range meat and organic veggies and grains.

And it's fine and dandy right through a round. It's fast turning into one of my comfort foods!

Cheers!
~Miriam