hi everyone!
back safe and sound…thank g-d!
had a lovely vacation which i will discuss live on air tomorrow!
yesterday i made provencal vegetable soup…
it was easy to make and turned out surprisingly delicious.
three things to mention:
1. i used the onion goggles alexis got me and omg i didn’t cry while chopping!!!! amazing.
2. i used the palm peeler that listener danielle gave us…and it is awesome!
3. i didn’t use the saffron in the recipe- got nervous i wouldn’t like it and by the time alexis emailed me back to tell me saffron was ok it was too late to add.
this soup is a vegetable soup but it’s made with chicken stock…i would’ve have substituted vegetable stock but i didn’t have any in the house and keith had already returned from picking up the other ingredients.
ingredients:
i chopped up the leeks you see above but here’s how they look before chopping…(i lifted this photo from whole foods’ website) the green leaves are actually much longer…but only the white/light green parts of the leek are usable.
then i sauteed the onions till translucent.
now all the veggies sauteeing together.
added the chicken stock/broth.
after 30 minutes of all the veggetables getting cooking i added the haricots verts (green beans)
and spaghetti…then cooked for another 15 minutes and voila!
then i made the pistou… which is garlic, tomato paste, basil, olive oil and parmesan cheese- it’s a pesto without nuts!
finished pistou which gets added to the soup and a spoonful on top too!
i had some extra potatoes so i roasted them with a little olive oil and garlic salt…yummy!
so excited to watch snl today on dvr! i couldn’t stay up to watch it live last night…did you see? was it good?
and tonight…OSCARS!
i am wondering if michael clayton will win…my brother brian (he’s so great) is in it…he plays the plumber/poker player seen/heard at the beginning of the movie and then at the end…i thought he was terrific!
xxx
jennifer
aim:whateverradio
HI Jennifer!
Welcome back! I was getting caught up on Martha’s on my DVR and Martha told where “Charles and the family” were on vacation. It was on the Emeril announcement show. How nice! Hope you used a ton of sunscreen or you will here it tomorrow from Alexis.
Hey Jennifer! Can’t wait until 5:00 tomorrow… you and Alexis have been missed!
I bet the soup was yuumy!
Hear ya later…
Cheers!
welcome home jennifer. mised you. we are driving to florida this week (afraid to fly) and i’m so excited to be able to listen to you no matter where we are!!! satelitte radio is the best. and thankfully my husband enjoys you two/too!!!!
you’re becoming quite the cook. i was thinking about getting the palm peeler, now i will. enjoy the oscars!
So do you feel you need another week to recoup from your vacation. Even my week in Australia caused major disruption in my sleep and getting back into my regular schedule. I look forward to hearing the show on Monday. Also I got watch Michael Clayton on the plane and noticed your brother. I thought I heard you mention his appreance on the show so I was lookign for him. I love you family and I imagin how much fun you have together. Brian and Bunny should definitely call into the show more often. Your cooking looks fantastic keep up the cooking blogs. ALeixs has also influenced my cooking too and it is a good thing.
Look at you go girl!!! The onions look so fancy!!! Seriously miss thang – go back and look at your first blogs about baking and soup making then compare them to THIS!!!! GREAT JOB!!!! Look how far you’ve come!!!
I wish your brother and Michael Clayton the best!!! (Oh and that George Clooney character too!!!)
I can’t wait for your return on the air!!! You’ve been missed!!!
Glad you’re back and the soup looks sooo good. Just wondering why you spelled God ‘g-d’? Is that a Jewish thing?
Yeah is that a Jewish thing?? Seriously, I wonder.
Really glad you had a great vacation. Once again I just want to thank you and Alexis for all the joy and laughter you have brought to my Mom over the past 4 months while I have been living with her after her MI and surgery. I’m moving back to my house with my husband, Jeff. I know it was a long time to spent with your mom but we are the only two left, basically in our small(now) of 5 as their was once 15 of us. After next Saturday she’ll be laughing with her dog Charo. Of course we’ll talk while we listen but it will not be the same without my mom and I together laughing and her saying “I can’t believe they do those kind of things, in an airplane how could you do it.” And I could go on. Thanks for making her recovery so much more pleasant and bringing her so much laughter. Amy
ok, what am i missing. every time you write about your brother brian you always put in parentheses that he is so great….i don’t get to listen to the show so is this an inside joke?
Yes I’ve noticed that too with the “g_d” and think it’s a Jewish thing.
YUMMO!
can’t wait for 5:00! so glad you’re back! 🙂
Amy, with all due respect, you should use the email function for messages like this. These are personal comments in nature, and while nice, I believe should be emails. Comments here are supposed to be for the blog. No offense, hon.Good luck to you, mom and Charo.
hi deborah!
i call my brother brian, my brother brian “he’s so great” because on the show i am always saying how terrific he is…not really an inside joke!
try listening..if you like the blogs my sense is you’ll like the show.
xox
who died and made you email etiquette queen.
I am wondering why you and Alexis have nothing to blog about besides food. I cannot possibly be alone in the “I Could Not Care Less What You Baked/Cooked Today” Club….could I??
And is it just me or did Jennifer only start doing this recently while Alexis has been doing it since Blog Day 1?
hi hmmm…
i will be putting up a vacation blog and exercise blog this week… it’s not just food that i post but when i cook i think people want to see… i have only recently started cooking/baking which is why i didn’t blog about it from blog 1.
xox
Jenny – I , for one, love your cooking pictures. I appreciate how you take the time to display all your ingredients and then show us the finished product. I get inspired by them and, in turn, cook more healthy for my own family. Good job! Glad your back to work.
Jennifer you are too cute!
Damn it, dude… GET YOUR OWN SCREEN NAME! Jenny knows who I really am and I don’t want her confusing me with you. p.s. Oh, I forgot to tell you, you’re a jackass.
just saw “Michael Clayton” and loved it! Thought Tom Wilkinson deserved a little statue – in addition to Tilda Swinton – they do corporate meltdown very good! I used to work in WB Bus Affairs – and your brother’s name sounds very familiar!
I agree with you, Hooligan. Tom Wilkinson’s performance in ‘Michael Clayton’ was excellent… I’m usually very unforgiving of characters who have mental illnesses because their conditions are often over-dramatized and exhaggerated. But in this case, Wilkinson’s symptoms were dead-on. I think his character also might have had some schizoaffective disorders because of his total break with reality?
SNL was very funny…Tina Fey did an awesome job. The birth control commercial was dead on! Did you watch it yet and what did you think?
DUDE – I am SO sorry for having MUCH better things to do than take the time to notice what screen names people use. In fact, I don’t think it would be possible for me to care any less.
Here’s the thing… There are a lot of people impersonating other people on these blogs. It’s confusing, tackey and downright upsetting. The worst part? Those shitty people only use a psudenym to write shitty things. THIS IS NOT THE PURPOSE OF A PSUDENYM! The purpose of a psudenym is for privacy; privacy among the blog READERS but not the blog AUTHORS. If you don’t have the time to tell Jenny who you really are (because you have something ‘better’ to do) then use your own fucking name!
Didn’t you’ll love the Tina Fey bit about Hillary? and the Oprah rip?
What is tackey? Is that a new way of saying tacky?
Also – how can you be upset with people not “having the time to tell Jenny who you really are” when you are mad at me for using your stupid screen name?
I love not being as angry as you! 🙂
fla is fun lived there 25years before the move to frozen land talk about hot dont know if I could stand it now after moving to frozen land anyway welcome back NYC its ok grew up in chi town area its ok to BUT Seattle is THE BEST love you guys K
Is it me? Or, is it really difficult to comprehend cook kaveman’s comments?? I think you have good comments, but, the grammar is a little scrambled. The pistou looks good, Please post pics of you wearing the onion goggles!!!!
Tackey, tackey, tackey – it’s like klassy with a ‘k’… I love not being as unoriginal as you! 🙂