Chorizo Rice Bean Soup & The Weekend

We had a very busy weekend.

A very spiritual weekend.

Johnie's son was baptized on Sunday.

We spent the whole entire day with him.

And we are very proud of him.

We started the day with lunch on the grill.

We found these great big thick pork loin chops 

at our local Kroger.

Johnie seasoned them all up,

grilled them slowly,

and kept them moist with BBQ sauce.

And we ended the day with ice cream at a
local ice cream shack.
Perfect day!


I'm stuck on soup.

One of my very favorite comfort foods.

This is some of the best soup I have ever had.

No LIE!!

The flavors are just awesome.

If you like a little spice in your life you will love this soup.

And when the snow is flying this winter.....

SSHHHHHHH!!!

You can read that very quietly if you want to.

This soup will for sure warm you up.

My kitchen smelled just like a Mexican restaurant while I was making it.

One of those aromas that keeps you going,

 "OOOOO, AHHHHH, MMMMM"

This recipe came through my Pages Feed on Facebook.

I am so glad I pinned it.

The inspiration came from the Web Site, Diethood.

I made a few changes, 

and like always if you want the original give Diethood a visit.

Yesterday Johnie worked a 13 hour shift.

So he was not here for dinner.

I packed his soup in his lunch today.

I can't wait to hear how he liked it.

Chorizo Rice Bean Soup

1 TBS butter

5 green onions, sliced, tops included

4 small cloves garlic

1 lb. ground chorizo

a little salt and pepper

1-15 oz. can diced tomatoes (mine were flavored with fennel)

1-15 oz. can great northern beans

1-15 oz. can black beans (drain and rinse both beans)

2 tsp. dried parsley

4 c. hot water

3 TBS beef soup base

1/2 c. uncooked rice

Melt butter in a dutch oven over medium heat. Add onion and garlic. Cook for 3 minutes. Turn heat up to med/high and add chorizo, salt and pepper, and parsley. Cook for 5-8 minutes.

When chorizo is browned add tomatoes and beans.

Add water and beef soup base. Bring to a boil stirring occasionally.

Add rice and turn down to a simmer. Cover and let simmer for 18-20 minutes.

See Ya'all Soon

Beef & Bean Rival Soup

 First off, let us say 

Happy National Lasagna Day!

I panicked when I found out it was National Lasagna Day.

Johnie is working a double and I was concentrating on

using the leftovers from yesterday's roast.

I heard about lasagna and almost stopped everything I was doing.

But my thoughts went to, 

"There is no way I have time to put lasagna together." 

So I headed to the freezer where we have a huge Schwan's stash.

The Schwan man saved the day.

But I celebrated alone.

The demands of a Corrections Officer are never ending.....

 So while Johnie is at work, I will share this wonderful recipe with you.

I took our leftover roast and potatoes and turned it into soup.

Since the weather here has been like fall I felt soup would be okay.

What I'm going to do is go straight to my notes.

Yes, I write down everything when I'm free-style cooking.

Place in pan:

4 c. leftover broth with chopped beef

I removed the potatoes so they wouldn't turn to mush.

They get added in later.

I added 4 more cups water to the broth

2 TBS beef soup base

I always soak too many beans. 

But that's okay. I will drain and freeze what I don't use.

1 1/2 c. soaked (overnight) great northern beans

A couple shakes of white pepper

Bring to a boil. Turn down to simmer. Cover and simmer until beans

are tender (45 minutes to an hour).

Add potatoes after beans are cooked.

 Now for the rivals:

1 c. flour

salt and pepper to taste (I like a lot of black pepper in mine)

3 large eggs

Mix until flour and egg come together.

 You don't want it too wet.

Bring the soup back to a boil and drop in small amounts

of rival mixture.

I just drop them in by using the fork I mixed them with.

I have known some people to use their fingers and pinch off the 

size they want.

But that can get kind of messy.

Let the rivals cook for a few minutes.

This is the ending result.

A small lite lunch for Angie, and yet hearty enough for Johnie when he 

eats his dinner. Which may be tomorrow......

See ya'all soon.....