Just in time for the solstice, here comes the winter weather!
It’s a good thing I was well-prepared with a pot of chik’n posole tonight. This is one of my favorite cold-weather meals – in fact, it’s one of my favorite year-round meals if we’re getting right down to brass tacks – and I knew it would soothe our souls and please our palates tonight.
Because it’s a holiday week, I’m feeling especially festive, so I brought out the good old Le Creuset French oven to cook the soup in. First I added a package of Gardein chik’n strips to the pot, then a can of Rotel (well, Safeway’s version of Rotel – it was cheaper!), then a can of hominy, then a generous amount of dried minced onion and garlic powder, then a carton of veggie broth, and then topped everything off with a heaping helping of ground black pepper. I brought the posole to a boil, then turned the temperature down to Low and let it simmer for the better part of half an hour.
As it simmered, I heated up two breadsticks for LeeLee and me to enjoy during the meal. As soon as the breadsticks were ready (I baked them for the last 10 minutes of the posole’s cooking time), we sat down to eat, ladling the golden-red broth into snowman-emblazoned bowls.
I have to admit, we each enjoyed three full bowls full (in fairness, these bowls are shallow). Rarely does the chik’n posole last for leftovers, and it certainly didn’t tonight! We mowed it down to the bottom of the pot – if we could’ve used a straw to suck up the last molecules, we likely would have!
So another successful evening of soup on another cold winter’s night! If this is what winter has in store, I’m all for it.
:)