If you didn't grow up keeping kosher, do you remember Campbell's Bean with Bacon soup?
I just hacked a perfect copy!
3 cans of beans in tomato sauce. If you're Israeli you know exactly what I'm talking about.
1 can of milk
1/4 cup of heavy cream
1 tablespoon of hickory smoked salt flavoring.
A handful of parve "bacon bits"
Add all the first 5 ingredients together in a pot, and blend with a stick blender until fairly smooth, with just a bit of texture left. Stir in bacon bits.
Heat on medium flame, and stir often. If you want to keep it hot for a long period of time, put the pot on top of another pot of hot water. This soup is thick, and will burn on the bottom if you take your eye off of it for even a minute.
I swear, this tastes exactly like what I remember from being a child. Comfort food at it's finest. I've often considered writing a cookbook of "fake treif" recipes to satisfy the cravings of converts and BTs.
I made "fake beef stroganoff" once that was so convincing, poor DH was worried to death that I'd accidentally used real sour cream. He must have asked me a dozen times if it was OK, and didn't calm down until I showed him the carton of Tofutti. I had to dig it out of the trash as proof before he would touch his dinner.
Then there was the time I made parve ranch dip for roasted chicken wings...
I know you FFB folks probably think this is really weird. Just think of it as "food from the Old Country." Our pre-kosher lives were in many ways a very different country.
(Sunday was leftovers); Monday was fried tilapia, couscous, and chickpea/tomato/cucumber salad plus tuna for those who wanted; Tuesday was schwarma chicken wraps (multigrain or whole wheat) with iceberg salad mix, cucumbers, tomatoes, pickles, pepper rings, fried onion, and a little bit of waffle fries; Wednesday was cream of mushroom soup with rice and baked ziti or plain noodles; today was stew (meat, potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, celery, onion -- tomato sauce based) or leftover chicken lo mein from a supper I made for someone
I woke up with a headache this morning that's still here...
Dh went out with friends and kids had basically whatever they wanted.
A teaspoon of natural peanut butter (they call it a "lick") 3 scrambled eggs and 3 slices of cheese shared between two kids. And an apple.... they had plenty of food during the day. Bread, chick peas, different cheeses. Fruit and veggies.
