Every year, after the holiday season the cauliflower recipes start showing up all over facebook. Everyone is making their dietary changes for the new year, and for some unexplained reason, the no-carb contingency thinks that pretending cauliflower tastes like potatoes is a good thing. I happen to be a huge […]
Category: Soup of The Week
Crockpot Winner! Pork Chili
It was the ultimate in irony. I walked through the garden and harvested a small handful of tomatillos, and a small handful of Amish Paste tomatoes. It was the first harvest of tomatillos, and all I could think about was a delicious green pork chili. I had to have it, […]
Bridge Soup
We have officially arrived at the wonky weather time of year. One day it’s cold, one day it’s borderline hot, and overall the mornings are much cooler than the evenings. As one who tends to plan my daily menu in the morning, that can mean a challenge for me. Too […]
Nourishment
It’s been a season of salads and sandwiches for us. Mostly because both things are really easy to throw together- but they’ve also become monotonous and dull. We’ve broken things up with a pasta dish here and there, but mostly, it’s been a salad, sandwich, pizza, pasta parade over and […]
Deliciously Creamy Pumpkin Soup
I have never made a pumpkin soup before- other than my pumpkin and black bean chili. I’ve never even had an inkling to make a pumpkin soup, but the other day we were watching BBC America, and watched Chef Gordon Ramsay whip together a luscious looking pumpkin soup, and I […]
Enough Chili To Feed An Army
Seriously. This is some serious chili making my friends! After living here in our beautiful new city for six months, we decided it was finally time to be social and invite some people over. The dilemma we were facing was who to invite? Well, a month ago we held our […]
Uh, It’s Still Split Pea Soup
One of the soups that I generally avoid like the plague is split pea soup. I’ve never liked it- not the texture, and not the flavor. Yet every once in a while, I think I need to try again, and every single time I am reminded that I just don’t […]
You Can Thank Me Later
Yesterday’s soup came about simply because of the random supply of ingredients I had in the fridge. Well, it wasn’t exactly random, but I found myself with an ample supply of vegetables and leftover beef that would have been ideal in a stir fry. Only, I really wasn’t in the […]
Warming Up With A Bowl Of Soup
Well, after a few days of warm, balmy wintry weather- followed by rain- winter has returned, and it is ever COLD! Yesterday was one of those windy days where the wind just went right through the living room- making us desperately wish that we’d covered the windows with plastic this […]
The Secret Is Salad Dressing
When I first saw this soup over at $5 Dinners, it screamed out at me. The picture was so appealing, and the name of it: Tomato Black Bean Barley just sounded so hearty and warming and just the perfect thing for lunch for a cool fall day. Reading through the […]
Adaptability Is Key
When you’re pinching pennies and trying to ‘make do’ with what you have on hand, it’s really integral to get a feel for substituting when cooking. There have been plenty of times where I’ve been in the middle of making something and had to put everything on hold to run […]
Spaghetti And Meatball Soup
I’ve hesitated about sharing this one, because I feel like I was doing a little…channeling of Aunt Sandy (if you know what I mean). When I came up with the idea, it was after a quick glance through the freezer- and the small freezer bag of meatballs I had in […]