Snow day MEAT soups

I have a confession to make here before I go on. Ready? Breathe….. After 20 years…..I am no longer a vegetarian. It started with a homemade grilled hamburger from local beef when I was pregnant and anemic. It was so good I ate another. Then we bought a pig from our farmer, after it was processed. And then I had an old (as in that chapter was a long time ago for me) Holistic Mom Network friend post about a bull they were processing and asked if anyone wanted to go in on it. SO I dove in head first. I’ll only eat meat at home, when I know where it came from. But I felt like we needed more diversity in our diet. Beans and cheese were not cutting it since I didn’t eat any processed vegetarian foods. With this busy life, I was hungry and tired and bored of food.

Now then….on our first snow day of the season our stove was hot with chicken noodle soup and chili. I even made broth! I told you jumped right in – Paleo, Western A Price style!

The Instant Pot is amazing. I’ve never loved a crockpot because I can’t plan dinner at 9:00 AM. The Instant Pot is an electric pressure cooker that is like a microwave crock pot without the fear that I’m going to blow up the kitchen. Vegetarians… close your eyes.

Then came the broth, and soup.

The chili was leftover from two nights ago. From the 1/8 of a cow that is frozen in our basement. The pig is gone. The chicken is from our food co-op where they only (mostly) sell meat from local farmers. None of it’s cheep. But we eat it sparingly which is how I now believe meat should be consumed. I’m still adamantly against all commercial meat farming.

And of course there were cookies. Devoured by a gaggle of eight girls who came in from the cold all at one time.There I said it. We now eat meat. And it’s taking me nine months to tell you.