Monthly Archives: January 2025

Kielbasa with Cannellini and Greens

International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day is coming up and I’ll be posting and linking to recipes from now until then. Here’s the fifth.

IEATAPETA (March 15) Recipe 5

This is one of the recipes in my arsenal for a quick dinner.

Kielbasa with Cannellini and Greens

Kielbasa or Smoked Sausage
1 15-ounce can of cannellini beans
1 medium onion diced
1 15-ounce can petite diced tomatoes
1 bag fresh baby spinach or 1 bag frozen cut-leaf spinach

Cut the sausage into bias-cut rounds 1/4″-1/2″ thick or dice into 1/2″ cubes. Cook over medium heat, rendering out the fat and browning the meat. Add the onion and cook until translucent. Add the beans, (rinsed or not), the tomatoes (with juices), and the spinach. Cook until the fresh spinach is wilted or the frozen spinach is completely defrosted and cooked through.

Serve over rice.



Easy Spaghetti Dinner

International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day is coming up and I’ll be posting and linking to recipes from now until then. Here’s the third.

IEATAPETA (March 15) Recipe 3

Today we’d been shopping and I needed something that was really easy and fast to put together so we picked up a jar of spaghetti sauce (tomato and basil), a pound of ground beef (pork or sausage would do as well), and a loaf of garlic bread. I already had some bucatini noodles at home. Because of the garlic bread, I cut down on the amount of pasta.

Brown the meat while you’re preheating the oven to heat the garlic bread and cooking the pasta. Add the jarred pasta sauce to the browned meat, add the drained pasta to the sauce, mix it up, serve with the garlic bread and enjoy!

Pork Chops With Apples

International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day is coming up and I’ll be posting and linking to recipes from now until then. Here’s the second.

IEATAPETA (March 15) Recipe 2

Pork Chops With Apples

Photo from Taste of Home

This recipe is from Taste of Home. The pork chops are browned, cooked on each side until the center reads 145ºF. Then the thinly sliced apples are cooked in butter, brown sugar, cinammon, and nutmeg making a delicious sauce to serve on top or on the side.

Dad’s Hamburger Soup


International Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day is coming up and I’ll be posting and linking to recipes from now until then. Here’s the first.

IEATAPETA (March 15) Recipe 1

This soup is easy to make with what’s on-hand in the freezer and pantry and comes together fairly quickly.

Dad’s Hamburger Soup

One bag of frozen mixed vegetables
One can of diced tomatoes with juices
One or two cans of whichever type of beans you like, cannellini, navy, pinto, red, black, etc.
One medium onion, diced
Two to three cloves of garlic, minced
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
salt
pepper

One one-liter box of beef broth or stock

One to two pounds of ground beef.

Mix the ground beef with about 1/2 a cup of the broth. **see note
Cook the onion in olive oil in a large pot until translucent, then add the garlic.
Add the beef and brown it, breaking up any clumps. Season with salt and pepper. Add Worcestershire sauce.

Add the rest of the broth, the frozen vegetables, and the cans of tomatoes and beans. You can rinse the beans or dump them in with the aguafaba.

Macaroni or other small pasta noodles (or rice) could also be added to bulk up the soup if you want to just add more broth or stock.

Feel free to season with any other seasonings you like. It’s even better the next day!

**note
Adding liquid (water or stock or broth) to the ground meat allows it to be smaller clumps when you brown it so it’s not in big chunks. I’ll use water, but if it’s a soup where I’m already using stock or broth, I’ll use that instead.

2025

I don’t have resolutions for 2025.

I’ve decided to have intentions.

I intend to do more drawing and painting in 2025.
I intend to do more writing in 2025.
I intend to do more crafting in 2025.
I intend to do more baking in 2025.
I intend to be happy in what I’m doing in 2025.

I can work up to doing more. I can back off if it gets too much.
I can try to document what I’m doing as well.

Those are my intentions as of now for 2025.

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