My life with a Meat Man and Meat Kids

I love to make my own, well, ANYTHING! It's easy, may not always be cheaper but is defiantly always better for you. In this scary world of GMO's and toxic processed food, I am really trying hard to make homemade. We even have chickens that lay eggs for the fam lol. I am a mom of two girls ages 4 and 2 and they are very active. I also work too, so these meals are packed with nutrition and fast and inexpensive to do. Hope this blog helps some mama's (and papas) out there trying to feed our selves with healthy food on a budget and fast! Oh and why Veggie Woman Vs. Meat Man? Because I am a mom, and I am always trying to get my husband (who is more difficult than my kids) to eat more Veggies by making them more tastey or sneaking them into the foods I make te he. Enjoy!



Monday, May 16, 2011

White Bean Veggie Chili


1 can Great Northern Beans (not drained)
1 can Garbonzo beans drained
1 can of diced or stewed tomatos (if stewed chop them up)
1/4 cup of white wine if you have it if not no worries
I small can of green chilies
1 small apple, secret ingredient
2-4 large carrots chopped (depending on how many carrots you like in your stew)
1 small onion chopped
1 handful of fresh oregano and or basil
handful of garlic
fresh herbs, I chose oregano, you could use both oregano and basil or one or the other
2 cans vegetable stock


Get out a saute pan, then slap in some olive oil, saute the chopped carrots, onion and garlic together,  then in anouther pot (large enough for the chili), pour in garbonzo beans and great northern beans, stewed or diced tomatoes and green chiliies and wine if you have it. Then after the carrots and onion and garlic are soft after about 10 min, stir them into the pot of beans and stewed tomatos, then add in the fresh chopped herbs if you have them on hand, if not just add dried. Then pour in some white wine and your veggie stock.  Let simmer on low for anouther half hour. The longer it simmers on low the better the flavors are. You really want it to be semi thick so if it's still thin then you know you need to simmer a bit longer, but if you like it that way by all means eat it lol. Just remember to put the apple in about a half hour before you are going to take it off the stove.

The apple in the secret ingredient allows this dish to be a bit sweet and tastes a little like potato when boiled in this chili.

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