Dinner 18: New Hampshire

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Creamy Pumpkin Soup
Maple Glazed Chicken with Carrots
Turn of the Century Baked Brown Bread
Delicious Maple Bars

Review

I chose New Hampshire because I wanted to do a small state after Texas was so big. I chose pumpkin soup, maple chicken, bread made with molasses, and maple bars. I really wanted to try all the maple food!

We still had a pumpkin leftover from Thanksgiving, so it was easy to make the soup. Mommy just roasted it and then made it into soup with some other ingredients. The soup and the bread smelled really, really good while they were cooking. The maple bars did, too, but I wasn't allowed to eat any of them early.

My favorite part of dinner was the bread, which was so so soooooo good I had to have another piece. My next favorite part was the maple bar for dessert, because it was like a big square cookie and it tasted like maple. I liked the soup and the chicken and carrots, too. Everything was really good. I like New Hampshire food a lot!

Recipes

Creamy Pumpkin Soup

(original recipe from Visit New Hampshire)

1/2 cup soy margarine
1 cup diced onion
1 cup diced celery
1/2 cup flour
1 cup sherry
2 quarts chicken stock
1 medium pumpkin, poached & peeled
1/4 cup maple syrup
salt and pepper, to taste
2 cups soy milk

Melt the butter in a small soup pot. Add the onion and celery and sauté until the onion is translucent.

Add the flour and stir to form a roux. Add the sherry and deglaze the pan, then add chicken stock and bring to a boil and reduce heat to a simmer.

Add the pumpkin and maple syrup and blend until smooth. Add the soy milk and season to taste. Allow to simmer until desired thickness.

Maple Glazed Chicken with Carrots

(original recipe from Ben's Maple Syrup)

1 tablespoon olive oil
4 boneless chicken breasts
4 servings of carrots
salt and pepper, to taste
1/2 cup chicken broth
1 tablespoon soy margarine
1/3 cup maple syrup

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Grease a baking dish with olive oil.

Place chicken breasts in the prepared dish. Surround the chicken with the carrots and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour chicken broth over veggies and bake in oven for 20 minutes.

While chicken is baking, melt margarine in a small sauce pan and remove from heat Add maple syrup and stir until thick and thoroughly blended.

Brush maple mixture over chicken and carrots and bake for another 15 minutes, or until chicken is done.

Turn of the Century Baked Brown Bread

(original recipe from grouprecipes.com)

2 cups soy milk
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
3 cups flour
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup dark molasses
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and lightly flour a large loaf pan.

Mix all ingredients and pour into prepared pan. Bake about 60 minutes or until cooked through.

Delicious Maple Bars

(original recipe from Visit New Hampshire)

1/2 cup maple sugar

3/4 cup flour

1/2 cup shortening

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup maple syrup

1 cup crushed pretzel bits

1 egg equivalent of prepared egg replacer

1 cup rolled oats

1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease an 8-inch square pan.

Mix all ingredients together. Spread mixture into prepared pan and bake 30-35 minutes, until done.

Cut into squares while still warm.