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
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
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
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
>Fire Roasted Cream of Tomato Soup to Beat the Cold
ShareTweet > The cold wakes me long before my alarm rings. It has seeped into my consciousness, like a thousand tiny needles of discomfort. There’s a pearl of cold moisture dripping from my nose. My hands ache, their skin tight, and dry, peppered with a thousand painful little nicks and cracks. Even my nipples are… Continue Reading
>Chili Con Carne, a Crowd Pleaser for the Oscars or Any Other March Gathering
ShareTweet > This month for the Snackpicks website, I made a big bowl of Chili Con Carne. I was asked to create a dish to serve with Cheez-It Crackers and I immediately thought of meaty, satisfying chili as the perfect match to the intense cheese flavor of Cheez-its. And the fact that the orange crackers… Continue Reading
>You’ll Swear This Mushroom Soup Has Cream in It… But It Doesn’t
ShareTweet >Mushrooms gross many people out, but I find them to be fascinating and beautiful. I love how they spring up daringly out of nowhere, little puffs of white on a brilliant fall lawn, twisted in impossible positions on a tree in the woods, and even dangerously enticing with bright red polka dots on a… Continue Reading
>Tasty Tuesday: Chinatown and Minestrone
ShareTweet >Chefdruck’s Tasty Tuesday The kids are off from school this week but we’ve been even busier than normal. Our town seems immune to the recession as so many people went away for the break. But we stayed put. I was worried that we would be bored during our staycation and I planned many adventures… Continue Reading