Try to have a complete meal of green food to celebrate…

Green Soup

4 cups chicken or vegetable broth
3 pounds of broccoli florets
1 cup milk
1 white onion, cut into quarters (optional to use a red onion- unless you want to be true to the total green meal)
¼ teaspoon of salt
¼ cup blue cheese, crumbled/ or white cheddar

1. In a large pan combine the broth, broccoli and onion.
2. Bring to a boil over high heat
3. Reduce heat to low; cover and simmer for 20 minutes
4. Puree soup in blender and return to the pan
5. Add the milk and salt
6. Using a soup ladle, ladle the soup into cups or bowls and garnish with cheese

Tossed Green Salad

To hasten your preparations for this night’s supper – just pick up a bag of mixed greens from the grocery store. If you don’t think you have salad dressing be sure to get some also.

Cheesy Bacon and Green Pepper Bread

1 pound of sliced bacon, chopped into 1”-2” pieces
1 onion, diced
1 green pepper, chopped
½ teaspoon ground red pepper
3 packages of refrigerated buttermilk biscuits, separated and each piece cut into quarters
2 ½ cups shredded cheese, divided
½ cup butter, melted

1. Turn the oven on to 350 degrees to preheat and spray a Bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray
2. Cook the bacon in a large skillet with medium heat until crisp
3. Drain the bacon on several layers of paper towels
4. Keep 1 tablespoon of the bacon drippings in the frying pan and sauté the onions, green peppers and red pepper; cook and stir them over medium heat – then cool
5. Put the melted butter in a medium sized bowl, combine the biscuit pieces, bacon, 2 cups of cheese and mix lightly
6. Loosely press biscuit pieces and mixture into the Bundt pan
7. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown, cool for 5 minutes
8. Invert onto a serving plate and sprinkle the rest of the cheese on top
9. Serve warm- goes nice with the green soup!

Milk Chocolate Chip Milk Shakes – for Dessert!

3 cups mint chocolate chip ice cream
1 ½ cups milk
3 tablespoon thawed whipped topping
2 tablespoon mini semisweet chocolate chips

1. In a blender- combine the milk and ice cream- process until smooth
2. Pour an even amount into 3-4 glasses
3. Top with whipped topping and sprinkle on the mini chocolate chips