Chicken Vegetable Soup / Weekly Recap

Hi Everyone!

Wow, I can’t get over that it is Sunday already!  The weekend really flies by!  This Saturday I kept pretty busy, by baking, making Artichoke Jalapeno Dip, again (I’m so loving this dip), re-making White Chocolate Peppermint Mocha Cookies for you and of course my weekly trip to Trader Joe’s.  All in all I had a pretty busy weekend.

Today I have for a very filling, tasty, healthy good for the soul Chicken Vegetable Soup.  Normally on the weekend, I like to make big meals, but since it’s holiday season, I haven’t had the time to make nice dinners with all the baking and shopping I have been doing.  This morning, I smartened up and decided to bring out the Crockpot, so when dinner time came around I wouldn’t be too lazy to cook and dinner would be done for me!  You just have to love the Crockpot!!

The soup is really easy to throw together.  I placed two frozen boneless chicken breasts in a crockpot, added a can of diced tomatoes, celery, carrots, onion, garlic, edemame, corn, chicken broth and seasonings.  Basically you can add any vegetables you like.  I thought of adding potatoes and broccoli, but I decided against it.  Since I used low sodium chicken broth, I did need to add a little bit of salt to it at the end.  I love low sodium chicken broth but in some dishes, a little extra salt is needed.

The recipe makes a little over 6 cups of soup.  I made some homemade bread to go with it, which is so good.  I’m going to be sharing the recipe with you later this week!  I also made a little side salad.  It is a perfect meal for a chilly evening!  I have leftovers, so it will make for a nice lunch tomorrow!

This week, you asked me if I could make my White Chocolate Peppermint Mocha Cookies without butter.  I did that today and the outcome is ok.  Instead of using butter I used 1 cup of plain greek yogurt, but left the rest of the ingredients the same.  The cookies, turned out more like a chewy brownie.  I didn’t taste the espresso so much and it didn’t have the cookie texture that I was looking for.  However, if you like peppermint brownies and your looking for healthy alternative, I highly recommend subbing the butter for greek yogurt.  They taste good, but it’s not a cookie.  I took a picture of them, just after I put the white chocolate glaze on top.  Little Jenny took them before I could style them for you.  I’ll put the nutrition and recipe alternative on the White Chocolate Peppermint Mocha recipe page.

Here is this weeks weekly recap:

Monday:  Almost Sugarless Sugar Cookie – I was really surprised, but everyone loved these cookies, and I loved telling them they are sugarless!  No one believes me.  lol  I even made my Pepper Jelly on Saturday and used NuNaturals Presweet Tagatose in it and it worked out perfect!  I love that I can have sweet things without having sugar!!  I contacted Ron from NuNaturals to give him the two winners of the giveaway and he said he will wait for the other two.  I said other two, he said yah, you can pick four people to win the giveaway!  Woohoo!!  Guess what?  That means two more winners, and the winners are: