Do you want to know how to make those luscious items you read on menus? Shift into reverse and bring that menu home!
One of the only chain restaurants I frequent is Not Your Average Joe’s (and Chipotle Grill….). Today the four-year-old and I took my Mum out to lunch to thank her for taking ridiculously good care of our very spoiled kitten while we were on vacation. We let Owen pick the spot, and well, they have fries. But they also have upscale salads and fun specials, so we were game.
One of the specials was a sweet potato chorizo soup, which I ordered (along with the crab and granny smith apple lettuce cups in a lime vinaigrette). This soup was the perfect consistency — not too thick like baby food, but a pureed broth with chunks of green bell pepper and spicy chorizo sausage. I only wish I got to eat more of it, because Owen decided he liked it so much that our server brought him his own spoon and he mooched a goodly amount.
Anyway, this is not a tricky soup to make at home, an activity I see myself doing often in the near future. A sneaky way to get veggies into your kid, don’t you think?
This recipe for sweet potato and chorizo soup is simple and healthy, but is not quite what NYAJ’s was like. I know there was celery in the broth, and I’m reasonably sure there was no white potato. There was even a splash of cream, but you can leave that out. There were also no floating greens; just a bit of chopped parsley.
So maybe you’d want to try this recipe for sweet potato chorizo soup instead; it’s very close to what I tasted. You’ll want to leave out the curry powder, though, and add chopped green bell pepper.
I’m sure this recipe could be made 1000 different ways and still be delicious, so experiment with it and bring the Not Your Average Joe’s recipe home to your kids… they just might like it as much as my little guy.
Clacked by Debbie McDuffee
on Jul 21, 2009 @ 09:00 EST5EDT
