Tuscan Soup

If you love Olive Garden's Zuppa Tuscana soup you will love this soup, so incredibly easy to prepare and full of flavor.

Prep Time: 10 min

Cook time: 20 min

Ingredients

1 pound Spicy Breakfast Sausage

6-8 whole Medium Potatoes

Water to cover the potatoes

6-8 cubes Chicken Bouillon I prefer the Wylers Chicken flavor with herbs and spices

¼ bunches Kale, Roughly Chopped (optional)

1 1/2 cups Heavy Cream

Salt And Pepper, to taste

Preparation

Crumble sausage into a large pot and heat over medium-high heat until cooked through.

Reduce heat to medium.

Slice potatoes into 1/4″ slices. Add warm water, bouillon cubes and potatoes to the pot and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes until potatoes are almost done.

Add Kale and Heavy Cream as well as the sausage and simmer for 5 more minutes.

If you prefer a slow cook method add all the ingredients except the kale to your slow cooker set on high for 4-6 hours. Add kale if desired about 5 minutes before serving. 

Enjoy!

Natural dyed eggs for Easter

This year we decided to try doing natural dyed eggs using food products to make colors for Easter eggs. This was quite an adventure, not all the things we tried worked as expected. Some of our tests were complete failures, others made amazing colors. Overall it was quite the learning process, and something would definitely do again.

Our sample dyes

Blueberry blue (this takes a lot of time to get this blue)

Earthy green/brown using red onion skins and white vinegar. (Again time was the key) 

Some of the best results (curry/turmeric, blueberries, and turmeric/blueberry mix)

We ran so many tests that we ran out of eggs. So time to test the oven method for making "hard boiled" eggs. (325-350 degrees for 30 minutes) 

Not sure what the sweating of the oven eggs is, or why it's happening. 

From TL to BR
Beets w/ baking soda, Red Cabbage w/ baking soda, orange puree, curry, raspberry, red onion, beets, beets w/ vinegar, beet greens, spinach w/ baking soda, spinach w/ vinegar, spinach, red cabbage w/ vinegar, red cabbage, red cabbage w/ tsp baking soda, red cabbage w/ tb baking soda, blackberries, ground red pepper (cayenne pepper), grape juice, yellow onion, turmeric, curry, blueberry, blueberry, mix of turmeric and blueberry