Monday, March 26, 2018

When you're sick...

When you're sick ... you want Debbie to make your meals.  Trust me on this!  At right is the soup she whipped up for me yesterday: a creamy chicken soup, not salty at all, stuffed with yummy roast chicken and vegetables.  Jealous, y'all should be...

She made this by modifying a cheesy sausage soup recipe she's used for years.  Substituted chicken for the sausage, and queso quesadilla cheese for the cheddar.   If you love to cook and you don't know about queso quesadilla, it's well worth learning about.  It's a very mild cheese, lower in salt than almost any other, with a soft texture and very meltable.  It adds a nice cheese note to just about anything.  Our grocery stores here all have a Mexican cheese section (because there are several really good Mexican cheeses!), and that's where we find it...

I've still got a fever this morning.  And it wasn't helped a bit by the inch of fresh snow that fell and stuck last night.  I've decided not to plow the driveway, as the layer is thin enough to drive over and I don't much like the idea of 90 minutes outside while I have a 100.5°F fever...