Major Knitter's Boot Camp

Clean Out The Refrigerator Egg Frittata

Basically, I pull out any veggies that I can chop and saute and then add some fried eggs.  I season with my favorite Trader Joe’s seasoning “Everything But the Bagel”.

1 cup baby kale
1 bell pepper, diced
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
¼ cup green onions, diced
½ cup red cabbage, diced
1-2 teaspoons olive oil
2 eggs
Trader Joe’s seasoning “Everything But the Bagel” – to taste
¼ avocado (optional)
½ roasted sweet potato, sliced (optional)

In a skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat and add the green onions, peppers, kale, red cabbage, and mushrooms.  Cover and saute until everything is tender.  Make a hole in the vegetable mixture for each egg.  Cook eggs covered over medium heat until desired level is achieved. 

I served with ¼ avocado and ½ cup leftover roasted sweet potato slices. 

Enjoy!

 

 

Chicken and Wild Rice Soup

Ingredients:

• 12 cups homemade chicken broth
• Approximately 1 cup diced chicken (either from the chicken carcass when making the soup, or saute 1-2 diced chicken breasts)
• 2 large carrots, sliced
• 1 large parsnip, sliced
• 1 cup mushrooms, sliced
• 1 stalk celery, sliced
• 1 yellow onion, diced
• 1/2 cup wild rice
• salt & pepper to taste
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 teaspoon Herbs de Provence
• 1-2 tablespoons olive oil

Directions:

In a large stock pan, heat chicken broth. Add carrots, parsnips, bay leaves, salt, pepper, and herbs de Provence. Cook over medium heat.

In a skillet, add the olive oil, onions, celery and saute over medium heat until translucent.  Add the mushrooms.  Cover and continue to saute for about 5 minutes.

If you’re using raw diced chicken breasts, add to the onion mixture at this time and saute until cooked through.  Once cooked, add entire chicken/onion mixture to the soup stock.  Continue to cook over medium heat.

Add the wild rice.  Cook for approximately 30 minutes until rice is cooked thoroughly. 

Enjoy!

 

Valentine's Day Gift

I finished this pair of cashmere socks for BF for Valentines Day.

US Size 5 needles
2.5 skeins of Zageo 6-ply cashmere
CO 44 stitches
K2, P2 ribbing - top down socks. 

I’ve got two more pairs on the needles because next week is our wedding anniversary x2. We got married by the JP on Feb 20 and celebrated with our family and friends on Feb 23. So he gets 5 pairs of socks each year - Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Anniversary 1, Anniversary 2 and birthday. It makes it easy as he’s impossible to shop for.

Hope you all had a very nice Valentine’s Day.