Super Simple Egg Drop Soup

When I need a quick meal, this is it. This is both my “I am sick” and my “I am lazy” food.

Ingredients:
2 cups chicken broth
1/4 tbsp ginger
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp chives
1/2 tbsp corn starch
1 egg, scrambled (not cooked)

Directions:
Bring chicken stock to a boil (I use “Better Than Boulion”)
Add ginger and salt
Remove 1/4 cup of liquid, put in a small dish
Add corn starch to small dish (we call this a slurry)
Mix well
Return mixed slurry to boiling mixture
Allow to boil for 3 mins
Stir vigorously
Remove from heat
As soup calms down from stirring, add egg
Add chives
Cool, enjoy!

How To Brie And When To Bake It

So I bought Brie cheese and wanted a baked Brie dish. Recently went to a wedding where they gave apple butter as a gift to guests. Thus, apple butter baked Brie. This appetizer takes a long time, and requires some kitchen tools.

Ingredients:

Brie cheese, 6 oz.

Apple Butter  (or any sweet jam)

1 egg, whisked profusely

Frozen puff pastry

OR:

   1 1/4 cup flour

   1/4 tsp salt

   13 Tbsp frozen butter (1 stick plus 5 tbsp);(aka way too much butter...)

   4 tbsp water (6 at 5000 ft+ elevation. What, I’m from Denver.)

Directions:

Buy frozen puff pastry, let defrost for 30 mins

Preheat oven to 375 degrees

OR:

   Freeze a metal bowl (or not, dough just needs to stay cool)

   Sift flour and salt into frozen bowl (unnecessary, just don’t let flour be too clumpy)

   Add dry ingredients to stand mixer (if applicable)

   Grate frozen butter into flour (use a micro plane or cheese grater, or some serious chopping skills)

   Combine dry ingredients and butter using a stand mixer (or elbow grease and a dough cutter, or your very clean hands)

   Allow mixture to form a clumpy ball of dough.

   Refrigerate for 30 mins

   Using a floured rolling pin and clean surface, form dough into a rectangle
   Fold dough into a letter, 1/3 top, 1/3 bottom. (PS a letter is the physical version of an email)

   Refrigerate for 30 minutes

   Remove dough and roll out the other direction (think 90 degrees and rising)
   Letter fold again

   Refrigerate for 30 mins

   Do it again

   Do it one last time

   Done. Puff pastry done.

   Preheat oven, 375 degrees

Remove rind from Brie (the white crust)

Place Brie on dough and spread apple butter (or something else) on top of cheese

Fold dough over the top

Cover top of dough with egg wash

Bake 60 mins

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Hey All, I’m back. I will be posting randomly, and providing recipes.

If you are like me, you’re tired of the “experience” of online recipes. You probably want to cook and not hear about who’s picky child loved or hated what, or how someone’s recent visit to Madagascar inspired them to use new spices. Now, I appreciate life experiences and understand how they influence how we cook and what we make.

BUT - I am here for food. Plus, I have an iPad now. So, from here on out, I’m posting delicious and occasionally healthy recipes to my blog. Pics or it didn’t happen.

I hope this helps food lovers and those who think they can’t cook alike.