Green Bean Soup

Green Bean Soup

My mom makes a delicious green bean soup.  She uses linguica which of course is yummy but I am trying to cook as vegetarian as my family will tolerate:)  I adapted this recipe from one of my favorite food blogs "Closet Cooking". A testament to how yummy it was...Colin devoured his bowl and Ali had seconds!

(makes 4-6 servings)

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon Bacon (or Garlic) Grapeseed Oil
1 onion (chopped)
1 carrot (chopped)
2 stalks celery (chopped)
6 cups chicken stock (or 6 C Water + 4TBSP Wildtree Chicken or Vegetable Bouillon)
1 # linguica (sliced-optional)
1 (19 ounce) can white beans (drained and rinsed)
2-3 Medium red potatoes, diced
1 TSP Hearty Spaghetti Blend
1 TBSP Garlic Galore
1  bay leaf
1 (19 ounce) can white beans (drained and rinsed)
pepper to taste
1 pound green beans (cleaned, trimmed and cut)

Directions:
1. Heat the oil in a large sauce pan.
2. Add the onions, carrot and celery and saute until tender, about 10-15 minutes.
3. Add the stock, linguica, green beans, potatoes, Spaghetti Blend, Garlic Galore, and bay leaf and simmer, covered on low heat for an 45-60 min. until vegetables are tender.
4. Empty can of beans and some of the broth into a blender (or use an immersion blender) to blend some of the beans to give a nice and creamy texture to the soup. Return to pot.
5. Add the remaining can of beans and simmer long enough to heat them.

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June Freezer Meal Workshop

My, how time flies...can't believe I haven't posted anything since April

June Freezer Meal Workshop

Friday, June 24th at 6:30 (just let me know if you need to come a little later)

Menu: (thanks to Jen Warr for her many fabulous recipes!!!)

Smoked Mozzarella and Broccoli Calzones

Greek Turkey Burgers

Salmon & Couscous Skillet Supper

Un-shished Kabobs

Smoky Ribs

Italian Marinated Chicken

Grilled Pineapple Shrimp Salad

Bag of Chicken Lemon Love

Cactus Pete's Baked BBQ Chicken

Garden Veggie Sauce and Spaghetti Squash

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April News

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Incredible opportunity this month!!!
Anyone who purchases $50 worth of products is eligible to receive one of the following catalog items at 50% off:

~ Large 64 oz. Grapeseed Oil – Natural, Roasted Garlic, or Butter

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April's Host Special
Host a Wildtree Tasting and you could earn the NEW Sunny Citrus Bar Mix AND Lemon GSO in addition to your grocery shopping spree as a thank you from Wildtree.

Freezer Meal Workshop

Freezer Meal Workshops will be back on Sunday, May 15th at 10am or 2:30 pm. Sign up ASAP to save your spot.

Some of the meals we are making include:

Pesto Fettuccini with Chicken

Pacific Skirt Steak

Hawaiian Chicken

Smoked Mozzarella & Broccoli Calzone

Jambalaya

Bolognese Sauce

Arroz Con Pollo Verde

Meatloaf

   Greek Style Skillet Supper

And more…

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Sunny Citrus Bar Mix

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Garden Vegetable Blend

This blend is chock full of vegetables and herbs, and it’s so versatile! You can use it to make a hearty pasta sauce, mild salsa, gazpacho, and even a veggie cream cheese spread.

Cactus Pete’s Agave BBQ Sauce

This is the barbecue sauce we have all been waiting for! It features agave nectar, a natural sweetener that is derived from a cactus.

Smoky Chipotle Hot Sauce

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Sweet & Savory Pineapple Sauce

This tropical sauce is the perfect accompaniment to grilled seafood and chicken. It’s also great as a salad dressing, stir-fry sauce, and as a base for a fruity salsa.

Watermelon Lime Frozen Drink Mix

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A Food Manifesto for the Future

February 1, 2011, 10:28 pm

A Food Manifesto for the Future

By MARK BITTMAN

Mark Bittman on food and all things related.

For decades, Americans believed that we had the world’s healthiest and safest diet. We worried little about this diet’s effect on the environment or on the lives of the animals (or even the workers) it relies upon. Nor did we worry about its ability to endure — that is, its sustainability.
That didn’t mean all was well. And we’ve come to recognize that our diet is unhealthful and unsafe. Many food production workers labor in difficult, even deplorable, conditions, and animals are produced as if they were widgets. It would be hard to devise a more wasteful, damaging, unsustainable system.
Here are some ideas — frequently discussed, but sadly not yet implemented — that would make the growing, preparation and consumption of food healthier, saner, more productive, less damaging and more enduring. In no particular order:

• End government subsidies to processed food. We grow more corn for livestock and cars than for humans, and it’s subsidized by more than $3 billion annually; most of it is processed beyond recognition. The story is similar for other crops, including soy: 98 percent of soybean meal becomes livestock feed, while most soybean oil is used in processed foods. Meanwhile, the marketers of the junk food made from these crops receive tax write-offs for the costs of promoting their wares. Total agricultural subsidies in 2009 were around $16 billion, which would pay for a great many of the ideas that follow.
  

• Begin subsidies to those who produce and sell actual food for direct consumption. Small farmers and their employees need to make living wages. Markets — from super- to farmers’ — should be supported when they open in so-called food deserts and when they focus on real food rather than junk food. And, of course, we should immediately increase subsidies for school lunches so we can feed our youth more real food.
  

• Break up the U.S. Department of Agriculture and empower the Food and Drug Administration. Currently, the U.S.D.A. counts among its missions both expanding markets for agricultural products (like corn and soy!) and providing nutrition education. These goals are at odds with each other; you can’t sell garbage while telling people not to eat it, and we need an agency devoted to encouraging sane eating. Meanwhile, the F.D.A. must be given expanded powers to ensure the safety of our food supply. (Food-related deaths are far more common than those resulting from terrorism, yet the F.D.A.’s budget is about one-fifteenth that of Homeland Security.)
  

• Outlaw concentrated animal feeding operations and encourage the development of sustainable animal husbandry. The concentrated system degrades the environment, directly and indirectly, while torturing animals and producing tainted meat, poultry, eggs, and, more recently, fish. Sustainable methods of producing meat for consumption exist. At the same time, we must educate and encourage Americans to eat differently. It’s difficult to find a principled nutrition and health expert who doesn’t believe that a largely plant-based diet is the way to promote health and attack chronic diseases, which are now bigger killers, worldwide, than communicable ones. Furthermore, plant-based diets ease environmental stress, including global warming.
  

• Encourage and subsidize home cooking. (Someday soon, I’ll write about my idea for a new Civilian Cooking Corps.) When people cook their own food, they make better choices. When families eat together, they’re more stable. We should provide food education for children (a new form of home ec, anyone?), cooking classes for anyone who wants them and even cooking assistance for those unable to cook for themselves.
  

• Tax the marketing and sale of unhealthful foods. Another budget booster. This isn’t nanny-state paternalism but an accepted role of government: public health. If you support seat-belt, tobacco and alcohol laws, sewer systems and traffic lights, you should support legislation curbing the relentless marketing of soda and other foods that are hazardous to our health — including the sacred cheeseburger and fries.
  

• Reduce waste and encourage recycling. The environmental stress incurred by unabsorbed fertilizer cannot be overestimated, and has caused, for example, a 6,000-square-mile dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico that is probably more damaging than the BP oil spill. And some estimates indicate that we waste half the food that’s grown. A careful look at ways to reduce waste and promote recycling is in order.
  

• Mandate truth in labeling. Nearly everything labeled “healthy” or “natural” is not. It’s probably too much to ask that “vitamin water” be called “sugar water with vitamins,” but that’s precisely what real truth in labeling would mean.
  

• Reinvest in research geared toward leading a global movement in sustainable agriculture, combining technology and tradition to create a new and meaningful Green Revolution.
  

I’ll expand on these issues (and more) in the future, but the essential message is this: food and everything surrounding it is a crucial matter of personal and public health, of national and global security. At stake is not only the health of humans but that of the earth.
This column appeared in print on February 2, 2011. It will appear in Opinionator regularly.

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Taco Soup

Taco Soup 1# cooked extra lean ground beef 1 TBSP Taco Seasoning 1 TBSP Guacamole Blend 1 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes ½ Cup chopped onion 3 C of chicken stock 1 15oz. can of black beans (drained and rinsed) 1 C of frozen corn Instructions: Brown ground beef.  Drain fat.  Add remaining ingredients to dutch oven or large sauce pan.  Add black beans, and corn.  Simmer on med. heat for 20-25 minutes. Suggested side dish:  Wildtree’s Texas Cornbread  (2 bags to a box)

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Created by L.Delaney  March 2011