So I am reading Bethenny Frankel
's NY Times Bestsellers, simultaniously, entitled Naturally Thin: Unleash Your Skinnygirl and Free Yourself fron a Lifetime of Dieting
, and The Skinnygirl Dish, Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life , in hopes of creating a better healthier me, and moma for my babies! I have to give it to her, so far the whole process makes sense, eat in smaller portions and don't feed yourself the crap you wouldn't even want to feed your kids, there are tons of other great one-liners and the "rules" are easy to follow, most importantly, Bethenny maintains that this is not a diet, but rather a healthy and natural lifestyle. In the books there are lists of foods that Bethenny eats herself and some convienent options for the times when, let's face it we don't have it in us to do bath time, clean the house, finish laundry and still have "quality" time with our man! Tonight was one of those nights, in fact it was even one of those nights where the kids ate dinner at a reasonable 6pm., were bathed in p.j.'s and tucked into bed, in my daughter's case wearing a Disney Princess Snuggie 
because I hadn't gotten the chance to wash her actual comforter that she soaked through last night, despite wearing pull-ups
, I digress! Around 9:30, my fiance comes home from a pharmacy run for me, the kids are in bed and I realize we have yet to have dinner ourselves. Hmmm obvioulsy not going to cook anything at this hour, but denying my need for something to nosh on will inevitably lead to gorging and binging (never purging, if you have this problem please seek professional help, it is a serious health and mental issue! take care of yourself you are worth it) on anything that looks good and easy, hmmmm. Suddenly, I remember my last visit to the grocery store. I followed Bethenny's rules and got something easy and nutritious sans chemicals and crap. "Babe, do you want split pea soup?"
"uhhhhh," looking up from Modern Warfare (which I loathe, but we can discuss later) "yeah sure!" sounding super excited at the prospect of food he didn't have to slaughter and prepare his self, it was like a whole, I-forgot-to-feed-my-puppy moment.
So I open this can of organic split pea soup, a little stoked about this healthy alternative to inhaling brownies, PLOP into the pot and its this gelatenous thing standing straight up, very phallic like on my stove top!!!! What is this, am I supposed to add water? No. JUST HEAT AND SERVE. Ok, don't knock it till you try it right? Ewe, flavorless green mush!!!!
My grandfather has this incredible knack for "Doctoring" things to make them taste better, however his version usually consists of bacon grease, salt or any other array of unhealthy options, so in the opposite direction of where I am trying to go, but living with him since I was nine has probably contributed to why I'm here, ugghhh why does unhealthy taste so darned good?
Quick thinking, split pea soup usually has ham in it, no ham, turkey bacon, score! It kind of snowballed from there, I don't know how much extra fat or calories I added to this meal but I tried to use common sense and recapture the taste of real soup!
First, seasoned the soup with salt and pepper, still not great.
Second, added a pinch of Adoboe, a little better.
Next, turkey bacon was cooked but not crisy, added a spoonful of chopped garlic and about half a cup of dry, white cooking wine with a splash of lemon.
Then, let the liquid reduce.
Finally, added liquid to soup thing mixed together and....YES! was sooo good! Fiance had no clue what just went on in the kitchen and it only took about 10 minutes to prepare, so although the organic soup wasn't so great I think I'll keep it around, along with all its accessories just in case I'm having one of those days!
