Wo Wanton and Turkey Burgers

Cost: $12

Prep: 20 minutes

I know these dishes don't go, but the plan was for turkey burgers. Matt was going to make us an appy of wanton soup, as we needed to use up some wantons that his father had made and were in our freezer. When I went in the kitchen to see what he was doing, he wasn't making an appy but a full pot of soup, so we just ate it as the side dish instead.

The soup was awesome. Light and crisp, full of veggies. Charlie like it too, and has taken to asking for soup constantly.

For the turkey burgers, which we grilled, I made a light coleslaw to go on the burger buns. It was a nice change, as these burger tend to be dry.

Mmmmmeh Soup

Cost: Around $7

Prep time: 30 minutes

I followed a recipe today! Yay!

I used the "Fix-It and Forget-It" book again. The recipe was for Curried Pork Soup. I "substituted", ie made crap up, that I didn't have in the cupboard, which may or may not have been a good idea.

Yesterday I measured the spices into a tupperware bowl, soaked the beans, cut up the meat, cut up the veggies, and measured out the water. This morning, at 7AM, I combined it all in the crock.

The house smelled delicious.

The soup looked delicious.

The soup tasted...meh.

You can see in the pictures that you are supposed to stir in spinach just before serving. That was tasty. BUT the pork was SO dry. The beans were way too hard. The soup was just generally too spicy.

I didn't have paprika, and I used some sort of mixed spices which made this WAY too spicy for me. Matt liked it though, but he can handle more spice.

That being said, even Charlie liked it. He had his pureed, and it was thick enough that he had his own bowl and spoon and could manage to feed himself (although, my God, what a mess!). My favorite part, however, were the crescent rolls (last of the Christmas stock).