I worked on my first Kickstarter and it got approved! It’s for the Special Edition Hardcover of Lady Wynwood’s Spies, volume 1: Archer and the release of Lady Wynwood’s Spies, volume 7: Spinster. I contacted my graphic designer about the Special Edition Hardcover of vol. 1: Archer—it’s going to be SO beautiful! The Kickstarter focuses on the Special Edition Hardcover, but it’ll also include vol. 7: Spinster so that it’ll sort of be like a launch day for vol. 7, too. A third special thing that’ll be in the Kickstarter is Special Edition Paperbacks of all the books in the series. They won’t be available in stores, just in the Kickstarter (and later, from my website, and also in my Patreon book box tiers if I decide to do them). The Kickstarter is not live yet, but you can follow it to be alerted when it has launched. (You may need to create a free Kickstarter account.) Follow Camy’s Kickstarter
(YES, I’m still on that veggie kick.) It was too cold for a green smoothie, so I was looking through the Blendtec recipe book and thought I’d try the “soups” setting. They have a handful of soup recipes, but I took the Raw Vegetables soup and altered it.
We got beets and beet greens in our organic co-op, so I used the pressure cooker to cook them (you could probably use the microwave or a regular pot but I had my pressure cooker out already because I’d recently made chicken stock with it). I also threw in some fennel and leeks with the beets and beet greens. You could throw in whatever veggies you happen to have in the fridge. Even a mix of veggies would probably taste good in this.
Then I threw some chopped garlic in the blender (I should have added it with the veggies when I cooked them but I forgot) along with 2 cups of chicken stock. I added the veggies plus one tomato and hit the “soups” button.
A minute later, I had “cream” of vegetable soup! And it was low fat! And I got something like 5 servings of veggies in the entire batch!
It made about 4 cups of soup, and I drank the entire batch. According to SparkPeople.com, the entire batch was only 300 calories. It was a little watery so I might try adding less chicken stock next time.
I added cumin, salt and pepper but you can add whatever spices or herbs you want. Next time I might try curry powder. Do you guys have any suggestions?
We got beets and beet greens in our organic co-op, so I used the pressure cooker to cook them (you could probably use the microwave or a regular pot but I had my pressure cooker out already because I’d recently made chicken stock with it). I also threw in some fennel and leeks with the beets and beet greens. You could throw in whatever veggies you happen to have in the fridge. Even a mix of veggies would probably taste good in this.
Then I threw some chopped garlic in the blender (I should have added it with the veggies when I cooked them but I forgot) along with 2 cups of chicken stock. I added the veggies plus one tomato and hit the “soups” button.
A minute later, I had “cream” of vegetable soup! And it was low fat! And I got something like 5 servings of veggies in the entire batch!
It made about 4 cups of soup, and I drank the entire batch. According to SparkPeople.com, the entire batch was only 300 calories. It was a little watery so I might try adding less chicken stock next time.
I added cumin, salt and pepper but you can add whatever spices or herbs you want. Next time I might try curry powder. Do you guys have any suggestions?
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