{"id":4453,"date":"2015-03-04T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=4453"},"modified":"2015-03-04T14:22:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:22:42","slug":"recipe-box-cheesy-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/?p=4453","title":{"rendered":"Recipe Box &#8211; Cheesy Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BeeGirl and I haven&#8217;t been eating particularly healthily lately (thanks for pizza last night, RhiaChu!), and tonight isn&#8217;t going to be an exception. Thing is, it&#8217;s FREAKING cold again, and I have a half-gallon of whole milk and a pound of old cheese in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention&#8230; <!--more-->two heads of cauliflower, a head of romanescu, and probably a half-head of broccoli in there as well. It could be more than Cheesy Cauliflower tonight, it could be all sorts of yummy soupy goodness!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cauliflower Cheese Soup<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 lg onion, finely diced<br \/>\n1 stalk celery, finely diced<br \/>\n2 heads cauliflower, broken into florets<br \/>\n1\/4 c butter<br \/>\n1\/2 c dry red wine<br \/>\nwater to cover<br \/>\n4 c whole milk<br \/>\n2 c shredded sharp cheddar cheese<br \/>\ncroutons<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melt butter in large dutch oven or smallish soup pot. Add vegetables, and cook, stirring often, until the onion and celery have softened. Add the wine, and simmer for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Cover with water, and bring to a boil, just long enough to cook the cauliflower through.<\/p>\n<p>Add the milk, return to near-boil, and stir in the cheddar cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Garnish with croutons, and serve!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Honey Dill Grilled Ham and Cheese<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4 Kaiser rolls<br \/>\n2 tbsp hot mustard<br \/>\n4 tbsp honey dill sauce<br \/>\n1\/2 lb shaved ham (we use Old Fashioned Carving Ham)<br \/>\n4 cheese slices, or 1 c shredded sharp cheddar cheese<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cut rolls in half, spread hot mustard on each bottom half. Top with ham, honey dill sauce, and cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Place under 500* broiler until cheese bubbles and melts, then remove and top with the bun. Cut in half, and serve.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<br \/>\n<3\nJL\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BeeGirl and I haven&#8217;t been eating particularly healthily lately (thanks for pizza last night, RhiaChu!), and tonight isn&#8217;t going to be an exception. Thing is, it&#8217;s FREAKING cold again, and I have a half-gallon of whole milk and a pound of old cheese in the fridge.<br \/>\nNot to mention&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871,1,870,73],"tags":[2457,2456,709,2459,857,1999,1031,2454,2453,2455,2458,206,1287],"class_list":["post-4453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-general-pondering-on-writing","category-headline","category-recipes","tag-broccoli","tag-cauliflower","tag-cheese","tag-comfort","tag-food","tag-ham","tag-honey","tag-honey-dill","tag-hot-mustard","tag-rolls","tag-romanescu","tag-soup","tag-warm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4454,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4453\/revisions\/4454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jodilee.sacredtriskele.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}