i've actually stuck to the meal plan recipes since i moved here pretty closely, and was eating a lot of pasta over the second half of the summer. i've remade a few meals i developed recipes for and supplemented the schedule items  (like adding chinese noodles to the tomato sandwiches or chicken to the kale caesar salads) but i haven't developed anything new in a while. when faced with a couple of new ingredients (like a bottle of sweet and sour sauce and a pile of frozen breaded chicken), i used the same basic recipe of

- fresh dill, garlic at bottom of bowl

- monterrey jack cheese

- item (tuna, rice, chicken balls, etc)

- bacon grease and bacon (sometimes)

- nutritional yeast, hemp seeds

- caesar, frank's

...but doing things like subbing caesar for sweet and sour sauce for the chicken balls, which i didn't have rice for.

the first new thing i'm going to do in a while is revisit the broccoli soup, which is tonight's meal. i have some chicken broth in the fridge and some broccoli stalks in the freezer (now in the fridge) to eat up. i also have kale stalks and lime and orange peels i've been putting aside for this. i also have a full container of broccoli that i let sit in the fridge a little too long.

it's going to be a little different this time, as i found the broccoli stalks to be a little harsh.

- first, chop up thawed or defrosted broccoli stalks and put them in a blender.

- add chopped up citrus peels

- add milk or soy milk (i'm using unflavoured, unsweetened soy milk)

- blend a little, to mix and chop, not to puree

- chop up broccoli florets

- chop up a bulb of garlic

- chop up 75 g of kale

- take a package of oxo cubes and let them sit in a bowl with water, stirring until they dissolve

- use a very big frying pan

- start with olive oil margarine

- i'm chopping up kale stalks instead of celery. fry them in the margarine for two minutes, covered.

- add the entire bulb of chopped garlic. another two minutes, covered.

- add the blended mix with a 1/2 box of vegetable or chicken broth (500 ml) and the bowl of dissolved oxo cubes

- add the chopped broccoli florets

 - let this come to a boil (uncovered)

- cook it covered on reduced heat for 15 minutes 

- cook for another fifteen minutes on increased heat, until it's boiling again

while it's cooking, put the following in a bowl:

- chopped fresh dill

- two avocados (chopped)

- fry up some amount of bacon

- also, grate some cheese (200 g monterrey jack, 200 g mozzarella, 200 g cheddar)

- chop up some bread (i'm going to use crusts of quinoa-flax and brown bread)

- put the contents of the pan in the bowl

- put the bacon with the grease and oil in the bowl

- add the following: 

- frank's

- pepper

- cayenne

- oregano

- cumin

- paprika

- dried dill

- add bread

- add cheese

- microwave or broil to melt cheese

add:

- nutritional yeast

- hemp seeds

- ceasar

- fresh broccoli florets

i'll have to see if that's a better recipe than last time.