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Healthful Pear Sandwich

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Hello everyone! It feels like I have not blogged in 2 months! It has only been one week but gosh what a wild time it has been around here! With all the late nights and overtime I have been doing I really need to ease up on the comfort food and hit the healthy stuff as hard as I can!  You are going to love this Sandwich! Not only is it light, low fat, healthy, it is so delish! I could seriously eat this for lunch every day! How often is Cinnamon Raisin Bread combined in a healthy sandwich? Not that often.  This little guy right here?  Oh he delivers all right!

The fresh light colors just scream Spring! I know that you are all so glad to have winter behind us and venture out into the beautiful outdoors! I love the vibrant green of the pear against the crisp white of the cream cheese.  Don’t you just want to dive into this right now?  Well feel free this is super easy, super good, and super healthy!

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Healthful Pear Sandwich

Healthful Pear Sandwich

Ingredients

  • 1-2 fresh ripe pears sliced and cored
  • 1 tbs Fat Free or Low Fat Cream Cheese
  • 1 medium sized pinch of Alpha Sprouts
  • 2 Slices Cinnamon Raisin Bread Toasted

Instructions

  • Toast your bread
  • spread on the cream cheese
  • add the sprouts {push into the cream cheese so they stay on better}
  • layer on the pears
  • top with the other slice of bread
  • Enjoy!
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Dressed Up Mac and Cheese Soup

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You know that day when everything seems to have been working against you.  That you swear the Cosmos must be laughing down at you while it wreaks havoc in your life.  Every car in front of you is an idiot, every line you get in is the slowest, your bank account is way lower than you thought it was, the store has every size available but yours, you can’t find your favorite socks and your are wearing the ones that keep bunching up at the toes driving you insane, that day. That is the kind of day I was having.  I just wanted to go back to bed and pretend that it never happened.  Not even a do-over, just a never have happened.   Seeing as the day that this post goes live it will be Black Friday and I am in Retail I bet I will be having that kind of day again……  On days like this you really need good old fashioned comfort food! Seriously stick to your insides and make you all warm and happy inside comfort food!  Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy, Mac and Cheese and Chicken Noodle Soup all fit the bill.  This dish takes Mac and Cheese to a whole new level!  When I say that this is Dressed Up, I am not fooling around.  This is heavy duty comfort food with intense get the job done flavors.  So when the day is all shot and you need that warmth and stick to your ribs comfort, dish up a bowl of this:

After a bowl of this you won’t even remember the color of that stupid car, what it was you were waiting in line for, you don’t even like that item that they don’t have your size in, if you had more money in your account you would just spend it, kick off the shoes and go barefoot it’s better that way anyway.   So whip up a batch and serve it to the whole family and I guarantee you won’t have a grumpy grouse for 2 or 3 days!

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Dressed Up Mac and Cheese Soup

Dressed Up Mac and Cheese Soup

This is a thick and heart warming Soup. Really it is has more of a Stew Quality. I found this in a Light & Delish Magazine

Ingredients

  • 1 pound ground beef
  • 1 cup onion dices
  • 1 tbs chili powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • salt and pepper
  • 2 1/2 cups milk
  • 1 14 oz can chicken broth
  • 1 can condensed Cheddar Cheese Soup
  • 1 1/2 cups elbow pasta
  • 1 1/2 c Cheddar Cheese
  • (I added a touch of yellow food coloring to help boost the color for the photos)

Instructions

  • brown and drain the ground beef (I always salt and pepper my meat while it is cooking for a layering of flavors)
  • In a stock pot saute the onions in 2 tbs olive oils for approx 5 min add the beef in
  • add the chili powder and the cumin
  • pour in the milk and add the Cheddar Cheese Soup
  • mix in the pasta and bring to a boil stirring frequently
  • reduce to a simmer and cover with a lid
  • cook approx 5-7 min until pasta is tender but not done
  • mix in the Cheddar Cheese and cook approx 5 min more till all is melted and combined and the pasta is cooked.
  • Garnish with the greens of scallions or chives. A dollop of salsa would be good also
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Tortellini Tomato Bisque and a Giveaway!

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I don’t know where to begin for today’s post! There are so many exciting things happening at The P and P Kitchen this week! I have a.d.d. of story telling.  I got a new camera lens, I have hit one year (on and off), I bought a smaller size in jeans, and oh yes oh yes I have a GIVEAWAY to celebrate it all!!!  Ok let me take a breath here and tell you all the fun things going on in a logical organised manner. (inhaling…. holding… and exhaling)

There now I am focused.  Let’s start with the new camera lens.  As my faithful followers will remember this summer I posted how I was frustrated and struggling with my photographs.  My dear husband finally got tired of my cursing and lamenting over how much “I hate this stupid camera! It is too hard to use and it never does what I want!” (that is an exact quote) He bought me a really nice close up lens and the guy at the photo store was very kind and patient with me and showed me some tricks.  The goal: each post going forward will look better and better!  I have been blogging one full Calendar year now!!! I know I have had to take time off a few times over the past year, but I fully intend for that to never happen again! (Everyone keep their fingers crossed that the pain NEVER returns!)  The only good thing about being sick this year has been that I have lost a lot of weight!  So I am in 3 sizes smaller than when I first moved to Kansas City!!!  Now that I am feeling better I am getting my appetite back and I need to watch it! (kinda hard to do when you are blogging!) So for all these great milestones in my life I wanted to celebrate with you and offer you a chance to win The Plaid and Paisley’s Kitchen very first Giveaway!

I love this cookbook! I think we all dream of diving around in a cool food truck and cooking and baking for the world.  Kir Jensen is living that dream and she has complied some of her best recipe’s here for us all to share! One Lucky winner will have this cookbook in their kitchen very soon!!  All you have to do is leave me a comment and like The Plaid and Paisley Kitchen on facebook!  You can get more entries by following me on twitter and tweeting and sharing on facebook about the giveaway!  I hope you all get as many entries as possible!
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Ok so now on to the recipe! Whoa I bet you thought I’d never get to it! Told you a.d.d of story telling today!  This is a take on my BFF’s from Nashville mom’s tomato soup! I make the Sweitzer Tomato Soup ALL the time!  For today’s post I changed it up a bit.  It usually has fresh basil leaves, but I was going for a bit of an Italian spin on it.


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Tortellini Tomato Bisque and a Giveaway!

Tortellini Tomato Bisque and a Giveaway!

Mrs. Sweitzer, Thank you for the base of this great recipe! My husband loves this soup!!

Ingredients

  • 1 family sized can of condensed tomato soup
  • milk
  • 1 pint half and half (the real recipe calls for heavy cream)
  • 1 stick of butter
  • 1 14oz can of diced tomatoes
  • salt, pepper and dried oregano to taste (I go heavy on the pepper)
  • 1 10oz package of tortellini

Instructions

  • Cook tortellini according to package directions and drain
  • in a stock pot add the soup, pour as much milk as will fit in the empty can
  • pour in the cream and toss in the stick of butter and can of diced tomatoes
  • turn up the heat and let the butter melt and the soup combine with the liquids
  • add in the seasonings and then the tortellini.
  • Let simmer anywhere from 5 min to 30 min
  • Serve and enjoy!
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Grown Up Grilled Cheese

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So we have talked about Cheap night on here before, how you don’t really feel like cooking but you know that you have to feed your family and you don’t have a ton of groceries in the house at the moment.  If you don’t feel like cooking you surely don’t feel like going to the store and battling out that fight! Our go to “Cheap Night” is a take on the Grilled Cheese Sandwich of some sort.  My Grilled Cheese Pie was  big hit with all of you and with my family, but I have already done that.  As as I am sure all you foodies feel the same pressure to constantly come up with something new every night.  We have to post and wow each other and somehow impress those guys up at Food Gawker to take out Photo’s! Well guess what? That ain’t happening with this Picture!!!!  Don’t let my less than stellar photo fool you, this sandwich really has some sophisticated flavors going on inside of there!

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Grown Up Grilled Cheese

Grown Up Grilled Cheese

Be sure to de seed and drain your tomatoes or you will have a soggy sandwich

Ingredients

  • really good crusty bread french bread, not a bagette style but a round loaf style
  • butter
  • olive oil
  • fresh mozzerella
  • roma tomatoes
  • bacon
  • salt and pepper

Instructions

  • fry and drain your bacon
  • slice your tomatoes and deseed lay out on paper towels to drain salt and pepper to taste
  • slice the mozzerella and drizzel a small amount of olive oil on top
  • butter the bread as you would a regular grilled cheese and layer the ingredents on the sandwiches and cook over medium high heat till each side is golden brown
  • enjoy your grilled cheese sandwhich with grown up flavors!
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