ShareTweet Happy chickens make happy soup. And yesterday, as the snow fell all day, slowly reducing the world to a quiet white wonderland, I definitely needed to fill my home with a dose of happy. News about my dad’s condition kept trickling in, text after text, getting more and more dire. With everything so quiet… Continue Reading
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Sweet Potato and Sausage Stew: End World Hunger One Sweet Potato at a Time
ShareTweet Today, food bloggers all over the web will be showcasing sweet potato recipes. In partnership with One, led by Jane and Alice, we want to bring attention to world hunger by sharing warm and filling sweet potato recipes. Sweet potatoes are very nutritious and easy to grow in many climates: a great mascot to… Continue Reading
Chicken Soup for the Flu Plague
ShareTweet Have you gotten your flu shot this year? I got my flu shot, along with half of my children. But it didn’t save us from being hit by the flu plague over Thanksgiving break. The flu hit us like a mac truck, just leveled our family into a wheezing, coughing, whining mess. I was… Continue Reading
Stone Soup: a Child’s Invitation to Fill the Pot
ShareTweet Have you ever made stone soup? More than a simple vegetable soup, it can be an invitation to get creative and fill the pot for the whole family. Long before my kids discovered the Disney Channel and its bevvy of child stars, Little Bear was our favorite show. That mysteriously half-clothed bear wandered through… Continue Reading
A Bisque in Name Only: Sweet Potato Corn Ancho Chili Bisque
ShareTweet If you lurk in food forums, you’ll find the strangest topics get people fired up. Did you know that bisque, vegetable bisque, is actually a controversial subject? Vegetables bisques should be called Cream of vegetable soups. Not bisques. A bisque is traditionally a crustacean soup, made from shells of lobster, shrimps, or crabs. Smooth,… Continue Reading
Creamy Cucumber Gazpacho
ShareTweet When was the last time you had an amazing dish at a restaurant, something so good you wanted to lick the plate? For me it was a few weeks ago, when I begged a few bites of the cucumber gazpacho my husband was enjoying on the back patio of Maya de Sol, a local… Continue Reading
A Different Type of Chilled Soup: Roasted Carrot
ShareTweet Having squeezed my postpartum body into a bathing suit in public last weekend, I am back on my soup diet with a vengeance. Say what you will about breastfeeding, but it’s not melting the pounds off this body. With a big bowl of soup to fill me up at lunch, I spend the rest… Continue Reading
Acting my Age with Cream of Endive Soup
ShareTweet What foods did you hate as a child? I don’t mean foods that you vaguely disliked, that made you groan and complain to your mother until you sank your fork in and decided it wasn’t so bad after all. I’m talking about foods that you just couldn’t bring yourself to put in your mouth,… Continue Reading
Indulge a Little with this Butternut Squash Coconut Bisque
ShareTweet The difference between a bowl of bisque and a bowl of soup is a treasure trove of hidden, lick the bowl clean, moan-inducing calories. Every once in a while, it’s fun to cheat and indulge. A big bowl of root vegetable soup is my favorite lunch in the winter, especially when I am trying… Continue Reading
Pumpkin Turkey Chili: a Healthy Chili Cook Off Winner
ShareTweet I love a party, especially when there’s a food angle to the festivities. When the chili cook off invitation had come into my email in early December, I was so excited. I envisioned soaking a rainbow of heirloom beans overnight to create a truly dazzling chili, delicious and filling, but much more appealing than… Continue Reading
Curl Up with this Pumpkin Corn Soup Topped with Pears and Prosciutto
ShareTweet Now that Halloween is over, discount pumpkin bins are popping up everywhere. I grabbed a few pie pumpkins from the supermarket this weekend to make a fall bounty soup. I wanted to create a bowl of pure comfort, something filled with fall vegetables but also sweet, like curling up with a good book under… Continue Reading
Coffee Chat and Bouillabaisse with Paul Kahan
ShareTweet Last night, I was lured out of my newborn nest to attend an irresistible foodie event: an intimate discussion and recipe demonstration with Paul Kahan, executive chef and partner of Blackbird, Avec, and Publican, three delicious trendsetting restaurants in Chicago. For those of you out of the Chicago area, Kahan was noted in the… Continue Reading
Roasted Butternut Squash Soup with Burrata and Truffle Oil
ShareTweet After I gave birth to my third child, I really struggled with losing the baby weight. At nine months postpartum, I still had a good 25 pounds to lose, but they turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Those 25 pounds let me discover the joy of running and playing tennis. But exercise… Continue Reading
Gazpacho To Beat the Heat
ShareTweet Temperatures in Chicago are through the roof. I’m not complaining, don’t get me wrong, it’s lovely to finally be able to put away winter coats and bare our arms, but when the heat is in the 90s, my appetite and desire to cook disappears. Just the thought of turning on the oven makes me… Continue Reading
>Roasted Butternut Squash Soup: the Perfect Way to Celebrate Fall
ShareTweet >Is it wrong to feel so alive as everything around me is dying? To dance with the leaves as they fall to the ground? I can’t help it. I love fall with its crimsons, its burnt siennas, and its sulfuric yellows. Just walking to school is like walking through a Monet painting, leaves crinkling… Continue Reading
>a Lighter Take on French Onion Soup
ShareTweet > French onion soup is one of those quintessential comfort dishes, a deeply satisfying brown savory broth topped with a decadent crust of rich melted cheese. Although you’ll find it on French menus, it’s much more likely that an American will order it rather than a French person. When a Frenchman is craving une… Continue Reading
>Apple Carrot Ginger Soup to Conquer Chaos
ShareTweet >Chefdruck’s Tasty TuesdayI flew out to Ohio desperate for a respite from our frantic house de-cluttering and eager to forget for a few days the prospect of long stressful months awaiting an offer. I couldn’t wait to be blown away by the mansions we would be trading our cozy little house for. After two… Continue Reading
>Roasted Butternut Squash Apple Soup
ShareTweet >Some parts of New Jersey were covered in snow today – a freakish event before Halloween. This was my wake-up call to get going with one of my favorite activities – making a big pot of vegetable soup. My mom used to make roasted vegetable soups all the time when we were little. I… Continue Reading