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Easy Fried Rice

7/1/2016

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My kids' favorite lunch - fried rice - sauté celery and meat (ham, spam, or bacon) in avocado oil on medium high in a nonstick pan. Stir in cold, cooked rice, sesame oil, tamari, oyster sauce. Stir constantly. Add green onions and scrambled eggs. Optional: add carrots with celery or instead of, add frozen peas. #friedrice #leftovers #chinesecooking #homemade #quickmeals #healthycooking #easycooking #recipe #lunch #dinner #kidfood #instarecipe

A photo posted by Marla Swoffer (@marlaswoffer) on Jun 29, 2016 at 8:25pm PDT

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Turkey Spinach Artichoke Chowder

1/8/2016

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How I concocted last weekend’s Turkey Spinach Artichoke Chowder - definitely a rough draft (speaking as a writer), but it was delicious (husband raved) and I will be making a final version the next time I have turkey gravy (may be a while):

I wasn’t paying attention to amounts (I rarely do), but the base of this soup was leftover 
turkey gravy (from Christmas dinner) and chicken broth.  

I made the meatballs out of ground turkey, frozen chopped spinach (defrosted in the microwave), parmesan (the canned stuff, I admit it), garlic powder, onion powder, salt, pepper, and - here’s the weird part - cream cheese. Next time I would soften the cream cheese and thoroughly mix it with the seasonings before adding it to the meat, but this time I got away with putting it in the mixture in random chunks (I tried to distribute evenly) and letting them melt into the soup.
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So basically, I brought the base (gravy/broth) to a boil, added in roasted red potatoes I had frozen (you could use fresh, but just cook longer), reboiled, lowered to simmering, and added the meatballs (making them as I went - plop, plop, plop).

Then I added some quartered (or maybe it was halved) canned 
artichoke hearts (that I had frozen, but I don’t think that matters).

After ten minutes or so, I thickened it by adding 
potato starch and sour cream (next time I will dissolve the potato starch into the sour cream - or a cupful of soup - to avoid glops).

Cooked for another five minutes and it was done. 

Yum!

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