Pantry Check: The ingredients you need for mulligatawny soup

Life update first, k? We’re still not unpacked! But we’ve made strides. My husband just spent the whole day making our backyard look like a backyard again instead of a junkyard (YAY!!!) and we’ve given a lot away to the alley monster. Not sure exactly who or how, but we’ve put a bunch of stuff in the alley only to find it disappear minutes later. It’s pretty magical and saved us a couple trips to Goodwill. We also have bedrooms that resemble rooms, but our living room is still pretty crazy.

So what have I been doing besides unpacking? Glad you asked! I’ve been spending my time at Vanity Fair’s Social Club for the Oscars spending time with some pretty amazing people in lots of industries. Friday, Patricia Arquette will be talking about the documentary, Equal means Equal. You all remember her speech on equal pay last year right? It made some serious headlines. We also had the pleasure of talking with Asif Kapadia, Director for Amy, Andrea Berloff & Jonathan Herman, writers for Straight Outta Compton, a live performance by Emblem3 and so much more!

I feel very fortunate to be invited to this all-weekend event.

Okay…on to the ingredient list!

This is going to be a bit of a different post than usual because this is a family recipe from my childhood. SOOOOO, you are getting 2 ingredient lists. 1) The ingredient list I remember eating as a kid and is my husband’s favorite version 2) The ingredient list for the plant-based version.

This is where I wonder if it gets tricky for you like it does for me. How can you improve on a childhood favorite? In my opinion, you can’t. It will always have that certain favorite flavor that you remember. The advice I’m giving myself: Don’t expect something to taste the same when you are using different ingredients. Accept the new recipe flavor in all its glory and enjoy! So which recipe should you make? I say both! When you use bone broth you get nutrition in your diet you don’t usually get and it will give you healthy hair-skin-nails plus an immunity boost, but I will always believe that if anti-aging is your goal, you will have a more successful cellular slowdown by eating the all veggie version of this recipe.

On that note, here are the ingredient lists:

Chicken Version

de-boned chicken
rice
carrots
onion
celery
granny smith apples
curry powder (I prefer a blend of hot and mild curries, see the tools and ingredients post for what I use)
chicken bone broth, regular broth & veggie soup broth that goes with everything from last month (or a tomato free store-bought version)
fresh lemons

Vegetable version

chickpeas
whole green lentils (soaked, made in the slow cooker, or fresh)
rice
carrots
onion
celery
fresh ginger
granny smith apples
curry powder (I prefer a blend of hot and mild curries, see the tools and ingredients post for what I use)
veggie soup broth that goes with everything from last month (or a tomato free store-bought version)
fresh lemons

Next week, have your shopping list ready so we can make this recipe! This is one of the few recipes that my Mr. Wonderful will eat leftovers of all week long. It’s THAT good!

See you all next week! Also, a special thank you to my blogger friends at So Fresh and So Chic and Boyajian Trend Gallery who took some photos of me. Thank you Naushin and Chantal!