I'd Prefer Vegging in Front of the TV...

So last night I made some seafood jook for the kids-that's just leftover rice boiled into a soupy rice porridge. You know, add some caramelized onions, chicken broth and soy sauce and call it a day...I added some shrimp, scallops and some vegetables (in particular some of those frozen kinds of vegetables-along with a fresh zucchini, some leftover carrots and some bok choy).

It wasn't a ton of veggies, but when I work late, I can't really handle chopping too much so you get what you get! Darn straight!

So last night dinner seemed all fine and dandy to me, but significant other found it significantly defective (lame?) on the vegetable side. Yeah, kids need fresh veggies, and frozen corn and peas are on the remedial side...I know, I know...

So to get hubby off my back, I am hoping to make soup a nightly event. Soups are great for my family to get some veggies without necessarily tasting so...vegetable-like. So off I go to Trader Joe's to stock up on some organic free range chicken broth which makes a great and easy base for most of all my soups (get the regular kind if you can handle the sodium-the reduced salt is a little flat to me).

Boil a bunch of vegetables with some bay leaves, onions and some herbs. That should keep hubby and kids pleased...at least for a little while.