Lettuce Soup

Prep Time: 10 minutes                         Cook Time: 25-35 minutes                 Add to MyFitnessPal

My partner and I moved to the woods to start our farm four years ago and had no idea what we were doing. We both love salads and decided to plant two 20 ft rows of mixed lettuce thinking, "This will be great!" We'd read that with cloches, row covers, and proper care, we could grow lettuce all year long; did out the math to figure out how much lettuce we'd need for roughly 3 months and went to sow. What we didn't realize was that if we planted all our lettuce at the same time, they would all reach maturity at about the same time. After weeks of careful cultivation, we had 3 months of greens, no idea of how to preserve it, and no where near the stomach capacity to eat it all. And thus, lettuce soup was born.

It sounds icky, but WOW it's good! I've been on full food for over 2 months and I still make this all the time, it's amazing!

Initially wary of cooking my lettuce, this is now my very favorite use of lettuce throughout the year!

Pho

Prep Time: 10-15 minutes                Cook Time: 5-15 minutes               Add to MyFitnessPal

I grew up eating southeastern asian cuisine. Despite mom's affinity for McD's, I learned to eat with chopsticks long before I could handle a fork and spoon. And of all the foods I ate, none tastes like home quite like a steaming bowl of pho. But those stinking rice noodles have WAY too many carbs for my diet, and the broth seemed impossible to make (or so I thought.) I spent three years trying to perfect pho but could never make it like Ngdom used to when I was a little. Not, anyway, until now.

Poor photography, VERY good eating

Pho Broth

Prep Time: 25 minutes                                Cook Time 2-24 hours          Add to MyFitnessPal

 

Oh pho, how I love thee. I grew up eating southeastern asian cuisine. Despite mom's affinity for McD's, I learned to eat with chopsticks long before I could handle a fork and spoon. And of all the foods I ate, none tastes like home quite like a steaming bowl of pho. But those stinking rice noodles have WAY too many carbs for my diet, and the broth seemed impossible to make (or so I thought.) I spent three years trying to perfect pho but could never make it like Ngdom used to when I was a little. Oh, and it's a protein BOMB! YUM YUM YUM!

Protein, salt, collagen, perfection