At Home My Way

This week I had a powerful craving for tomato soup!  Mmmm... I love the stuff. Being the eccentric little cooker that I am, I - OF COURSE -wanted to try my hand at homemade!  Surely my ingredients would be simpler and better for me than these (which are found on canned tomato soup)! INGREDIENTS TOMATO PUREE (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, WHEAT FLOUR, WATER, SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, FLAVORING, CITRIC ACID, LOWER SODIUM NATURAL SEA SALT, ASCORBIC ACID (VITAMIN C), MONOPOTASSIUM PHOSPHATE. I searched around and found several variations of "copycat" tomato soup recipes.  Most called for canned tomatoes, some called for tomato paste, some even called for chicken broth.  My favorite canned soup had no chicken broth in it!  So, I kept looking. I ran across a recipe found on a blog that is new to me but which I LOVE called "Produce on Parade".  Lots of good recipes!  And vegan recipes at that!  I'm always on the lookout f...

Easy Mexican Pizza     New Year's Day always makes me want to re-evaluate my life.  Get control, get organized, save money.  In order to do that I really need to stick with a menu plan and make a better effort at using the abundance of food that I already have in my pantry and freezer.     We had a nice little amount of snow around New Year's, enough that after my small (and pretty uneventful) surgery on Friday, that I didn't want to drive anywhere to get lunch.  But I didn't have anything ready that I could just grab or to make a sandwich with.  I was going to have to be a little creative. I decided that I was going to revamp my arsenal of cheap and quick things to eat in order to avoid unnecessary trips to the store or out for fast food.  This is first of many "Quick on the Table" ideas that I hope to be posting this year.   I've read on several blogs about quick tortilla pizzas but...