Every once in a while a blog name really catches your attention. Usually because you just know it tells you something important about the blogger. So when I was assigned It’s Yummy to my Tummy I knew right away my blogger had children. Isn’t it obvious? How many times have I heard my granddaughter say…
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“There’s a party in my tummy. So yummy….”
and I imagine Heather’s two cuties say it a lot too. Especially if they get to eat her treats.
Like the ones I chose to make for Secret Recipe Club. and as usual it wasn’t easy making a choice.
The day I started reading through Heather’s blog is was chilly outside so soup sounded perfect.
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Chicken and Gnocchi Soup
What a delicious way to warm up. Creamy, full of flavor with all the garlic, parsley, and thyme. And so colorful.
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1 cup cooked chicken, diced
4 tbsp butter
4 tbsp flour
1 quart half and half
14 ounces chicken broth
1/2 cup celery, finely diced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup carrots, finely shredded
1 cup onion, finely diced
1 cup spinach, chopped
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp parsley
1 lb gnocchi
salt and pepper, to taste
Saute the onion, garlic, and celery in the butter and olive oil, until onion becomes translucent. Add in your flour and make like a paste or a roux. Stirring constantly, cook the mixture for about a minute and then add in your half and half, seasonings, carrots, and chicken. Let mixture begin to simmer and thicken up.
In another pot, cook your gnocchi according to package directions or prepare your homemade gnocchi. Note, if preparing homemade gnocchi for this dish, I would do that before so you don’t have to worry about it at the same time as preparing your soup. As the soup mixture gets thicker, maybe a few minutes of simmering, add in your chicken broth, and let it reduce a few minutes again. Once the gnocchi is ready, add it to the simmering soup, along with your spinach.
Cook for a few additional minutes or until the spinach starts to wilt. Serve with a little parmesan cheese on top if you wish.
Afterward we needed a litle something sweet.
And this Peanut Butter Fudge was just perfect.
I have been making PB fudge for years. And I have used the same recipe for years. You know the one -with that Puffy White Stuff. Well I am here to tell you this is sooo much better and tons easier to make.
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5 ounces of unsalted butter
2/3 cup smooth peanut butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
2 1/4 cups powdered sugar
In a microwaveable bowl, place butter and peanut butter and cover with plastic wrap. Microwave on high for about 1 1/2- 2 minutes. Next stir mixture and microwave another 2 minutes, mixture will be hot and bubbly!
Add in vanilla and salt
Stir in powdered sugar until smooth. Note the mixture starts to get really thick here! So stir it with some muscle to incorporate the powdered sugar well.
Put the fudge into a 9 x 9 pan lined with parchment paper for easier removal. Allow to cool and store in the refrigerator until to cut into pieces and enjoy.
Microwave fudge!! This is way too dangerous a recipe to know about. Maybe I shouldn’t share it?
I don’t make biscuits very often (carbs!)(no self control!) but I decided to try Heather’s with the stew the other night. I needed something to soak up all the extra juices.
Fabio's Cheese Bomb Biscuits
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2 cups of sifted flour
2 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of salt
4 tbsp shortening
1 1/4 cups of half & half
1 1/2 Asiago cheese
Mix all the dry ingredients together, including the grated cheese. Next add in the shortening. After you incorporate the shortening, add in the half & half.
Ordinarily one would drop 1/4 cup of dough onto a greased cookie sheet, but I decided to use a muffin pan which gave me a nice thick biscuit.
Bake at 400 for 15 minutes.
Heather used Romano or Parmesan cheese. I used the Asiago instead. And you will need more than 1 1/2 cups if you want a stronger cheesy taste. They were perfect with the stew.
If you want to find out what else was coming out of the SRC Member's kitchens you need to check out the postings below. I know you will find some great food.
And just in case you aren't familiar with Secret Recipe Club it is a great group of bloggers who are assigned a blog. We then make something from their blog and all of us post, or reveal, on the same day. Nobody knows who got who until the reveal. Tons of fun.
November 18, 2013 at 8:57 AM
Thanks for picking some of my family’s favorite dishes… funny thing is, the chicken and gnocchi soup is my favorite, while the peanut butter fudge is my husband’s secret guilty treat, and my kids love biscuits with like every meal if I would let them! Excellent picks and glad you enjoyed reading about our little adventures. -Heather from It’s Yummy to My Tummy
November 18, 2013 at 9:18 AM
What a great dish. Love the idea of gnocchi over rice or noodles! Brilliant!
November 18, 2013 at 10:47 AM
Whoa, that soup look soup-er comforting! 😉 Oh, and that peanut butter fudge has my name all over it!
November 18, 2013 at 3:53 PM
That’s a stick to your ribs kind of soup, right up my alley! Three recipes, wow that’s amazing.
November 18, 2013 at 5:21 PM
this looks delicious!!!xo
November 18, 2013 at 7:47 PM
Love the gnocchi soup for the recent cold weather. Sounds good
November 18, 2013 at 7:48 PM
Fabulous you found so many wonderful dishes. The soup looks terrific, and that fudge would be dangerous in our home too, good for gifts, and I am not a fan of that fluff chemcially stuff.
Denise from Eat, Laugh, Love
November 18, 2013 at 10:17 PM
Looks and sounds incredibly tasty! Glad to be part of SRC group C with you!
November 19, 2013 at 8:27 PM
Oooh I have 2 packages of gnocchi sitting in the pantry just waiting to be used. Adding this to my weekly meal plan. Great pick!