Quick Meals Planner: Soup's On
Bread - Honey Moist Cornbread | Winter Squash Soup
Bread - Honey Moist Cornbread
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 6 |
Category: | Gluten Free |
Meal: | Soup's On (Quick Meals Planner) |
1 | cup | gluten-free flour |
1 | cup | corn meal, yellow |
1 | tsp | xanthan gum |
0.33 | cup | sugar, granulated |
1 | Tb | baking powder |
0.33 | tsp | salt, kosher |
8 | oz | cream, whipping |
0.25 | cup | oil, vegetable |
3 | large | egg |
0.25 | cup | honey |
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Heat oven to 400 degrees
Stir all dry ingredients then add the remaining ingredients
Pour onto a greased 9-inch pan
Bake for 20-25 minutes. ( for best results use a cast iron frying pan. Place in oven 10 minutes prior to baking, add 1 Tb of butter to pan then add the batter)
My wife has a sweet tooth; she recommends doubling the honey if you are making the cornbread for breakfast.
Winter Squash Soup
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 6 |
Category: | Soups |
Meal: | Soup's On (Quick Meals Planner) |
4 | lb | squash, acorn |
2 | Tb | oil, olive |
2 | Tb | butter, salted |
1 | medium | onions, chopped |
48 | oz | chicken broth |
1 | Tb | cloves, ground |
1 | Tb | ginger, ground |
1 | Tb | pepper, fresh ground |
3 | Tb | cilantro, chopped |
8 | oz | pears, canned in lite syrup |
8 | oz | cream, half and half |
1 | pinch | salt to taste |
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Peel and seed the squash. Cut into 1 inch cubes. Heat butter and olive oil in a pan. Sauté squash until tender; add onion. Cook for 3 minutes more until onion is tender. Add broth, cilantro, pears with juice, spices and simmer for 20 minutes. Place 3 ladles at a time in a blender and blend until smooth. (Caution: don’t fill blender more than half full as soup will rapidly expand) Repeat until all is blended. Return to pan and add half and half. Add salt to taste.
Optional: serve with a Tb of sour cream in center.