My Mom's Italian Wedding Soup recipe and a little dress!

Alright!! Since so many of you asked for my Mom's Italian Wedding Soup recipe, here it is:

Note: It terrifies me to share recipes on here. I don't have exact ingredients. You just kind of make it, and put it all together. Taste it! add more spices, taste again. Then, it's done!

General ingredients

Meatballs

1 lb fresh lean ground beef

chopped garlic ( I use the chopped garlic that you buy in little jars. I use a teaspoon.)

Bread crumbs

salt

pepper

Mix all the above ingredients and make little tiny meatballs. Once your meatballs are made, you want to cook them in a pan. You may want to add a bit of olive oil so that they don't stick. Cook all the meatballs until they are fully cooked.

Soup Base

1/2 cup Concentrated liquid beef broth

water

bag of baby spinach

oregano

basil

salt

pepper

dry onion flakes

noodles (orzo, ditali, other)

Use your big soup pot and fill it 3/4 full of water. Add you liquid beef broth. Bring to a slow boil. You want to finally chop your spinach into tiny pieces and add it to your broth. Also add the oregano, basil, salt, pepper, & dry onion flakes. Once your meatballs are fully cooked, add them to your soup base. Then you want to add about 3 or 4 hand fulls of your noodles of choice. I like to use orzo, but for my sons soup I used a bigger noodle like Ditali. Any small noodle will do. You let this cook on medium heat until your noodles are fully cooked. Check that it tastes the way you like it. And if it's just right, then serve.

This is a great soup for those cool days or when you are not feeling that well. It's not very heavy to eat and it also doesn't have much fat. If you don't like to put too much salt in your food, you can just omit it. There is already salt in the concentrated beef broth.

Well, let me know how it turns out, if you try it.

On another note, I made my daughter a little up cycled dress today. I used an old t-shirt and added some knit fabric that I had bought at a yard sale for 25 cents. I used this tutorial from Make it and love it.  She really likes it and didn't want to take it off when I was done. So, it's a winner. This is a very comfortable dress. The tutorial is for an adult size dress, but can be made any size I think. It only took me about 1 hour to make this. I hope you like it.

Hugs

Ariane



Homemade soup & My sister is celebrating her 100th post!!!!

Hi everyone!!

I hope you are all having a good day.

I worked day shifts the last two days.

I've just got one more to do tomorrow, then I'm off for four days.

Since it's Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, it will be nice to be off work.

I'll be able to spend some time with my little family.

Can't wait!!!

My second oldest is having a potluck lunch at school tomorrow to celebrate this holiday.

He asked me to make his favorite soup.

I know, you may be surprised that a 13 yrs old would want soup to bring.

But he really loves it.

It is "Italian Wedding Soup" made my Mom's way.

My Mom is the queen of homemade soups.

She could have a soup restaurant and make a ton of money.

I have never met someone who didn't love my Mom's home made soups.

So, since I have to work tomorrow morning, I made the soup this evening after I got home from work.

Aren't I a good Mom?

I got home from work, after working a 12 hour shift, went to the grocery store, bought fresh supplies and made him his favorite soup.

 I had to have a little bowl, just to test to make sure it was up to standards.

Mmmmmm......delicious!!!!

I also wanted to let you all know that my big sister Michele is celebrating her 100th post.

She is having a wonderful giveaway to celebrate.

She is also sharing some information about our family which I haven't shared before on my blog. So, if you want to find out a little bit more about me, you should go check out this post.

Now, I'm so proud of my sister. She has such a wonderful blog and she shares tutorials for almost all her projects. She is so creative and artistic. She works really hard on all her projects. It has been very exciting for me to see her blog flourish. I had been wanting her to start a blog for a long time and I'm so glad she did. So, go check out her blog and giveaway!!!

Well, It's bed time. I have to get up at 5:00 am. So, off to bed I go.

Hugs

Ariane