Wisconsin Cheese Soup

This is oh so good and easy. A great comfort food for the Fall.

½ c finely chopped onion
4 t butter
4 t flour
1 ½ t cornstarch
4 c chicken stock
4 c milk
1 c cooked carrots
1 c cooked celery
1/8 t paprika
1/2 pound shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 pound velveeta cheese


Saute onions, carrots and celery in butter until tender. Add flour and cornstarch blending well. Add chicken stock and milk gradually, stirring constantly. When boiling add paprika and cheeses. Cook over low heat until cheese is melted. Add extra rue and salt if necessary.

Ginger Garlic Chicken

I am currently trying not to eat sugar, dairy or white rice, bread etc, so meals are little bit harder lately, so I made this up and the chicken I have been nibbling at while the rice cooks is delish!

chicken breasts
ginger root
garlic
braggs amino

finely smashed up a small bit of the ginger, added to braggs & minced garlic dumped over chicken.  fired up the bbq, sliced up some ginger to put on top of the chicken as it cooked and basted the chicken often with remaining juices!  YUM  I also took some ginger pieces & half of the water as braggs and stuck them in with the brown rice as it cooked.

Clam spaghetti

Don't let the title scare you away like my husband did. This is easy and yummy.

1 pkg. spaghetti, fettucinne or linguine noodles
A few cloves of garlic
1/4 C. olive oil
2 cans clams, not drained
1-2 Tbsp. parsley
lemons, cut into wedges
parmesan cheese

Get the noodles cooking. Everything else comes together really quickly.

Heat olive oil in skillet. Add garlic and brown. Add clams, with their juice and parsley. Heat through and let simmer while noodles finish cooking.

Drain noodles and toss with clam sauce. Garnish with lemon juice and parmesan cheese. Both toppings are important to the flavor of this dish.

Lettuce Wraps

we took 2 chicken breasts (diced), some squash (diced), garlic, 1/4 onion, some bean sprouts, some stir fry sauce, stir fry it up.  Put a some of rice on a leaf of Ice berg lettuce & top with stir fry, definitely the hardest part is getting the leaves off in one piece. You could use water chestnuts, or celery instead of squash, we used peter pan scalloped squash.

We had these at China Isle and my girls LOVED them, great easy meal!