Cauliflower Vegetable Chowder

Another yummy soup recipe your family will be sure to enjoy!


Cauliflower Vegetable Chowder

• 1 tbsp  butter
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 cauliflower, chopped
• 1 cup broccoli, chopped
• 2 carrot, chopped
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 2 cups milk
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar

Melt butter in large saucepan. Cook and stir onion over medium-high heat until tender. Add cauliflower, broccoli, carrot and chicken broth. Bring to boil.

Reduce heat, cover and simmer 10 minutes or until vegetables are tender.

Whisk milk into flour until smoothly combined; add to saucepan. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture boils and thickens.

Remove pan from heat; add 1 cup of shredded Cheddar cheese and stir until cheese is melted.

Sprinkle the rest of cheese and serve.

If you like chowder recipes please be sure to check out my potato chowder!

Carrots!

Your little ones hungry for a snack?  Offer them a peeled carrot.  These two had fun pretending to be rabbits and snowmen.  I remember when my son was small like these two.  He would sneak carrots from the fridge to snack on.  I always pretended not to see him do it. 

Carrot Ribbon Salad

What do you do if you run out of lettuce and feel like a salad?  Peel carrots into some yummy carrot ribbons!

I just had to share my lunch with you today!  A super easy and quick salad you can whip up for one with the ingredients you have on hand!

2 carrots, peeled into ribbons.
Toppings, I used a no salt, nut, seed, fruit mix.
(have some fun with this and add what you like and let me know!)
Dressing, I used very little of a poppy seed dressing.

Put it all into your fave bowl and enjoy!

For some reason I just love carrot ribbons!  I think they taste way better then chopped carrots! I often put carrot ribbons on top of garden salads to fancy them up!

Carrot Salad

This is an old family favorite recipe!  So easy to make and tasty too!  I usually make a big batch for a dinner side dish, and the leftovers are perfect for kids school lunches! 

 Ingredients

• 2 or 3 grated carrots
• chopped pineapple, about a cup
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• lemon juice
• handful of raisins

Directions

Mix all the ingredients together and refrigerate!  Enjoy! 

 

Carrot Bread

I am still on my quest to make a yummy carrot bread!  So I just bought a fresh bag of carrots,  I figure out if I have all the ingredients, when I realize my son has cooked up all my eggs!  But surely you can substitute eggs with something else?  So I google and find that yes you can!  There were so many to choose from...so I chose the easiest one, milk :)

So while I wait for the bread to bake I will tell you what I did.

Ingredients
1 1/2 Cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 cup Walnuts
1/2 cup Raisins

I mixed all of the above together in a big mixing bowl, and in a big measuring cup I mixed the below ingredients.
 
1 cup of carrots shredded - I shredded 2 carrots and it was a bit more over a cup...oh well :)
1/2 cup of apple sauce
150 ml milk
3/4 cup Agave Syrup (or you can use 1cup of sugar)

Pour in to dry ingredient and mix well.  I decided at this point to throw in some unsweetened shredded coconut...let say 1/4 cup just for fun...
As you know I do not have a loaf pan so I poured the batter into a greased casserole dish...threw it in a 350 preheated oven...and now I am waiting  :)

So checked it about 20min in, and realized that I forgot to sprinkle the sunflower seeds on!  So sprinkled them on.  But it didn't work they all are just loose on top :(  oh well.  I baked it for 40-45 mins.

It turned out a bit heavy, but it is so very yummy!  I think next time I may try using yeast to make it more like bread. I would describe this recipe as a not very sweet carrot cake.  But all in all....the kids love it so I would say it was successful!