Some of my eats were a hit yesterday, others need some tweaking! I started out my leisurely Sunday morning with a classic Biz sammie – English muffin, 1/2 cup egg beaters, spinach and 2 ounces of leftover Easter sandwich. Surprisingly – no cheese was involved in this sammie! 😀
When we buy stuff off the $1 rack – we’ve learned that we have to move quick, otherwise it spoils too quickly. I decided to make a roasted pepper and potato soup with the peppers Tony brought home. I think the orange peppers are slightly sweeter than red and green? At least that’s how it tasted to me!
I lit my grill at 10:00 a.m. – I am sure my neighbors thought I was nuts starting the grill so early! I sprayed the peppers with Pam before putting them on the grill.
Once inside, I let them cool. Sliced in half, removed the membrane, seeds and stems:
I used this as my chicken broth – love this stuff!
I diced up an 8 ounce potato and used the last of a bag of shredded carrots – 3 ounces.
Roasted Pepper and Potato Soup Recipe (printer friendly version here)
Makes 4 servings/2 cups each: 184 calories, 4.3 fat, 26.7 carbs, 4.1 fiber and 11.4 protein
Ingredients
1 | teaspoon olive oil |
3 1/2 | ounces carrots |
3 | garlic cloves |
1 | teaspoon Italian seasoning |
6 | cups chicken broth |
1 1/5 | pounds red peppers |
8 | ounce potato |
1/2 | teaspoon crushed red pepper |
1 | pinch of salt |
1 | pinch of pepper |
Directions
- Grill peppers on gas or Weber grill until charred on all sides. Let cool. Cut in half and remove membrane, seeds and stem.
- Heat oil in heavy pot and add garlic and carrots and sauté for about 5 minutes. Add the broth, charred peppers, and potato. Bring to simmer over high heat. Decrease the heat to medium-low. Partially cover and simmer until potatoes are tender – about 30 minutes.
- Using a stick blender, puree soup. Add in Italian seasoning and crushed red pepper and add salt and pepper to taste. I garnished it with a spoon of Greek yogurt and chopped fresh cilantro. 😀
I love the flecks of char in the soup – to me, it makes the soup – and only 185 calories for two cups!!
Tony decided to come with me to Whole Foods – we decided to stop for lunch somewhere around WF. While Tony had Fuddrucker’s in mind, when we got there they were no longer in business. But about a block down we ended up here:
I’ve never been to a Famous Dave’s before, and while I had thoughts of pulled pork, Tony pointed this out to me and there was no other decision to be made:
And for my side I chose this – here is the miss: I didn’t see the word onions!
To say the burger was big is an understatement. It took all my control, but I cut it in half and only ate half – I brought the rest home, and just one half weighed in at 6 ounces, or 12 ounces for the whole burger! This was definitely a hit!
Then it was on to Whole Foods! For the record, I have to give the hubs some props – he hates this store – especially this one – it’s tiny, the aisles are very narrow, and being a Sunday it was packed. I did get some loot though!
Guess how much that stuff cost? $41! That’s why they call it Whole Paycheck! I totally scored with this cheese though – never even heard of it before!
Dinner was baby back ribs, using my new Famous Dave’s sauce – Georgia Mustard! The second ingredient is vinegar! 😀 Tony and Hannah had Robinson’s. Yes, you read that correctly, my daughter who doesn’t like meat actually likes ribs!
Another miss: my potato salad. I used Greek yogurt instead of mayo, and it was bland and boring – back to the drawing board on that one!
My plate – I ended up eating 4 ribs, potato salad and 1/2 cup baked beans:
Turns out our dog likes ribs too!
Another miss. I tried to make rye bread, but the recipe I used called for molasses and cocoa powder? Really? Having never made it, I gave it a shot. It tastes like pumpernickel!! While good, it wasn’t what I was going for. I am using a Cook’s Illustrated recipe that I made tonight and will bake tomorrow night – you’ll have to come back and see how it turns out!
Stats for Sunday:
- no exercise other than household chores
- 1374 calories, 146 carbs, 78 protein, 52 fat and 20 fiber
Hope you enjoyed your weekend! 😀 I am about to do some Yoga on exercise T.V.! 😀
Woolwich dairy! Good Canadian goat cheese. Yum!
And it’s hilarious your daughter doesn’t like ribs. I like meat, but HATE ribs. EW!
That soup looks and sounds fantastic. I LOVE roasted red pepper soup so I bet I’d love it.
I LOVE anything BBQ so um, ya….the rest of your day is awesome.
I have found using 1/2 mayo and 1/2 greek yogurt gives you the mayo taste you want but healthier. I use that with alot of my recipes that still need a bit of mayo in them.
Your dog looks just like mine! Great looking soup!!!
aw i hate recipe misses! The soup looks awesome – love that you fired up the grill at 10 a.m. LOL!
HOpe the idea above of mixing the greek yogurt with mayo helps out!!
Love me some ribs! That was what I had the first time I blew my calories back in February. So worth it 🙂
I love the roasted peppers. My neighbors think I’m crazy when I fire up the grill at 10 am too. When it comes to using Greek yogurt in salads, I recommend a 3 to 1 ration. 3 parts Greek yogurt to 1 part mayo. That way you get all the flavor of the mayo with the tang of the lighter Greek yogurt. Just a suggestion.
Good idea Cory – thanks! 😀
Your potato salad LOOKS good, anyway. Can you re-post the recipe when you are done tweaking it? I’d love to try it.
The soup looks great as well as the breakfast sandwich:)
Lady, you are mean! It’s 630p and I’m starving! Why did I have to end up here? The english muffin sandwich looks – amazing…and those pizzas down below: delicious. Wow. Can you come over and make me dinner? I promise I’ll clean up the mess? 🙂
Awesome loot!! My mom tried to make rye bread a few weeks ago and it bombed, too. It tasted like whole wheat. Weird. I wonder what the secret is?? 🙂
Jenn
Ed is so cute…he is right to want those ribs!
Whole Paycheck is right. Why can’t they offer more coupons and sales?! But they certainly have amazing products. I’ve never heard of goat mozzerella, yum!!
Love that pic of your sweet pooch! The soup sounds amazing.
Pumpernickel is rye bread.It’s just made with coarse ground rye rather than light rye.
Cocoa, coffee, and/or molasses are often used to make a dark rye. A light rye can be made without the addition of these ingredients.
I love that picture of your dog!!
BBQ yummy! I should get my hubby to a famous dave’s but we generally opt for wingdome, a local place that has a sauce so spicy that one bite I was still feeling it for oh 30 minutes or so! You should come do their 7 wing challenge, 7 of the wings in the 7 alarm sauce in 7 minutes, no beverages…. BRUTAL.
My new trick on potato salad is lowfat sour cream, bit more flavour than yogurt and less fat that mayo, sometimes I do mostly the sour cream and a Tbsp or even half a Tbsp of mayo, but all in all most people don’t miss the mayo, it’s creamy and tangy.
Thanks for the advice – I think I’ll try it with sour cream next time 😀
Great egg sandwich, one of my favourite things! Love how you show off your groceries, funny isn’t it, that food bloggers like to see pics of groceries? 🙂
I always love your breakfast sammie. I had a similar one yesterday.. But I had cheddar cheese on it!
That soup is beautiful. I love orange peppers. They have a great sweet flavor.
I love the picture of the dog with his eyes peeking over the bowl. Too cute!!! haha
You want a rye bread recipe?? I’ll email you my grandma’s when I get home. It’s by far the BEST rye I’ve ever had… you just have to promise to not blog the actual recipe 🙂 I don’t mind sharing it, but i dont think my mom would want it public!
Thanks Mara! 😀
I can’t see the Cook’s Illustrated bread coming out badly! They always seem to be right on 🙂
If you make the bisque and take out the leeks, use 4 celery ribs instead of 2. The veggies really help give the soup body!
I hate going to WF on Sundays. Our store is tiny (it’s in downtown Baltimore) and it’s a mob scene on Sundays!
The picture of your dog cracks me up! I have a pug and he does the same thing…except at a much lower altitude. 🙂
Can’t wait to hear what you thin about the goat mozzarella! Sounds tasty to me!
That smokey delicious soup sounds just perfect for lunch today!
yums you make me crave meat lol…bad bad biz! haha
I love the picture of your pup! too cute!!
yummy looking burger!
Sounds like you had a lovely and delicious weekend!
I love the picture with your dog eying up the table!
I love the soup Biz and nice that you can have 2 cups!!
Everytime you write about onions I crack up. I have a brother who refuses to eat anything with nuts because he says even if he can pick the nuts out, the food still has “nut odor.” I’ll bet your Cook’s bread comes out great, I’ll be looking forward to that.
That burger looks really good! And so does the soup 🙂
Have a great monday!