Joys Life Diet Soup Creole Food

JOY'S LIFE DIET SOUP ITALIAN

Steps:

• In a large stock pot coated with non-stick cooking spray, sauté the garlic, onion, celery, and mushrooms over medium heat for 10 minutes, or until tender.
• Add the stock, remaining vegetables, canned tomatoes, and bay leaves. If you have chosen one of the dry seasoning blends (Creole or Italian) add it now. Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.
• Add the vinegar and cook an additional 2 minutes. If you have chosen the fresh Garden Herbs seasoning blend, add it now. Remove bay leaves before serving or freezing.

JOY'S LASAGNA

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F and position the oven rack in the middle.
• To make the meat sauce, heat the olive oil in a large saucepan. Add the onion and cook over medium-low heat until translucent (about 5 minutes). Add the garlic and stir for one more minute. Then add the sausage and cook over medium-low heat. Breaking it up with a wooden spoon, for 10 to 15 minutes, or until fully cooked and no longer pink. Add the crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste, oregano, basil, sea salt, and freshly ground black pepper. Simmer uncovered over medium-low heat for 20 minutes.
• Soak lasagna noodles in hot tap water.
• While the sauce is simmering, make the cheese filling In a large bowl, combine the ricotta, 1 cup of Parmesan, the beaten egg, chopped parsley, sea salt, and freshly ground black pepper. Set aside.
• Ladle one third of the meat sauce into a 9"x 12"x 2" casserole or baking pan. Spread the sauce over the bottom of the dish. Then add approximately half the pasta (in one layer, cover the sauce with the noodles), half the sliced mozzarella, half the cheese mixture, and one third of the sauce. Add another single layer of noodles, mozzarella, ricotta, and the remaining sauce Sprinkle with the remaining ½ cup of Parmesan.
• Bake uncovered for 35 minutes, or until the sauce is bubbling.

CHICKEN DIET SOUP

Steps:

• Put all the soup ingredients into a large 8-10 quart pot of water and bring to a boil.
• Turn the heat down to medium-low and simmer for an hour our so until the chicken is tender and falling off the bone.
• Remove the chicken and let it cool so you can handle it to remove the bones.
• Shred the chicken and return to the pot.
• Bring to a boil again, and then turn down on a very low simmer.
• The longer it simmers, the tastier it becomes.
• Just ladle some of the soup into a bowl, add a few scoops of rice and top with garnishes to taste.
• This is just a basic recipe and has room for many tasty variables.
• Sometimes I garnish with cumin, or toasted mustard seed and a sprinkle of curry powder--whatever I'm craving.
• Basically, the soup is very low in fat and if you use the brown and wild rice, it is low in gluten.
• Eat it exclusively for a day or two and you will notice a flatter belly and feel healthy and energized.
• I keep a pot going on the back of the stove all the time so my family always has a nice healthy snack or quick meal on hand.

JOY'S LIFE DIET SOUP CREOLE

Steps:

• In a large stock pot coated with non-stick cooking spray, sauté the garlic, onion, celery, and mushrooms over medium heat for 10 minutes, or until tender.
• Add the stock, remaining vegetables, canned tomatoes, and bay leaves. If you have chosen one of the dry seasoning blends (Creole or Italian) add it now. Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer over low heat for 20 minutes.
• Add the vinegar and cook an additional 2 minutes. If you have chosen the fresh Garden Herbs seasoning blend, add it now. Remove bay leaves before serving or freezing.

STUFFED FLOUNDER CREOLE

Steps:

• Melt 1/2 cup butter and sauté onions, celery, shallots and garlic until tender but not brown.
• Sprinkle with flour. Cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes, until mixture browns.
• Gradually stir in white wine and milk. Cook, stirring over low heat until mixture is smooth and thickened.
• Fold in shrimp, crabmeat and soft breadcrumbs.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Have flounder split without separating the halves.
• Remove the backbone. Spread half of each fish with stuffing. Reshape fish and spread it liberally with butter.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Lay the fish side by side in a buttered heatproof serving dish and brown the bottom over direct heat.
• Put the dish under broiler heat to brown the top.
• Serve hot; garnish with lemon wedges and parsley.