I received my second Oh She Glows recipe review from my Christmas Cookbook giveaway! Thanks to Kate who blogs over at Mama Needs a Run for her willingness to try a new recipe 🙂
Enjoy the cookbook, and here’s to a healthy 2015!
Here are her photos and comments below!
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Morning Kelly!
I hope you are staying warm. I have already had enough of this cold winter weather. I could really go for spring!
Last night I made the first recipe (of many I know!) from the Oh She Glows Cookbook. I made the On the Mend Spiced Red Lentil-kale Soup. I love soups and stews and I would eat one every day for lunch and dinner if my husband would agree to it but he hates soup. Weird I know. He also was not a fan of my suggestion of eating a recipe a week out of this book and having a meatless meal once a week. I could not have married a more meat and potatoes kind of guy. He loves a gigantic meal every night (so the opposite of me) so anyway.
I found this recipe to be fast, simple and mighty tasty. My almost 4 year old ate his whole bowl and said I quote “Mama you made nice soup tonight” and my 8 year old ate 2 giant bowls. She and I both for that matter. We loved it. We were all super full, warm and satisfied. My husband worked late and out in the cold (12 degree) weather and was happy to have a nice warm bowl of soup to come home to. I will add he is a big guy and again requires meat so he made a couple sandwiches to go with it. Could he have been filled up if he ate normal amounts YES! It was a thumbs up from all of us though. I will say it says it serves 3 and it fed us 6 big bowls plus there are 4 in the fridge for leftovers so not sure how much a serving should have been.
Thank you for this book and the opportunity to step out of our usual menus! I can’t wait to try others. Next up is the sweet potato black bean enchiladas!
Regards,
Kate
Sent from Mama Needs a Run
This is not a recipe that caught my eye when I was perusing my Oh She Glows cookbook, but since Kate and her family liked it so much AND I had most of the ingredients in my pantry anyway AND I wanted to use up the leftover kale from “I Am Running This Rice” (AKA “Kale & Cilantro Mexican Rice”), I decided to try it last night.
At first, all I could smell was the chili powder and I thought, “Oh, great, it’s going to be like watered-down chili.” But then…. the first taste… YUM! So good, so filling and everyone who tried it loved it.
Thank you, Kate, for your great review of this delicious soup.