Pasilla peppers are a little bit sweet, a little bit spicy…but just a bit. These dark green peppers add great earthy flavor to dishes and are a delicious addition to this creamy, roasted tomato soup. Do you still have roast turkey or chicken in the fridge? Here’s a great way to use it up and…
Category: Soups
Ginger Carrot Soup
This 5-ingredient ginger soup with fresh orange juice and a gingery zing is a vibrant, fresh starter. 5-ingredient Ginger Carrot Soup November 10, 2012 by Stormy Category Soups Vegetarian Recipes (All) Ingredients 1 ½ pounds raw carrots, peeled 1 small onion, cut into fourths 2 Tbsp fresh ginger, minced Juice of 2 oranges (~1 cup) 2-3 cups vegetable…
Carlos’ Charro No-Bean Chili for Cinco de Mayo
My grandpa Carlos was quite the hipster in his day. He owned a nightclub called El Matador, drove a corvette, and loved his bling. Of course, this came later in life – after years of working hard for others.Less flashy, more family, he was also the cook in the house. Two of the recipes my…
Reinventing Chiles en Nogada Soup-Style
Deconstruct: To break something down into its component parts. For a recipe, this means looking at the recipe and determining the essential ingredients – the ones that make the dish unique, satisfying, and flavorful. Deconstruction is one of my favorite ways to reinvent a dish when I want to experience its flavors AND tailor the…
Flavor Bible to the Rescue (AKA Awesome Broccoli Soup)
I have a practice I call Friday Night Fridge Finds. The premise behind it is that we – people in general – often wind up at the end of the week without much food in the fridge or motivation to cook, but we can still come up with a healthy, tasty, and easy-to-prepare meal. Typically, it…
Creamy spice bazaar-inspired soup
Spicy, bright, and good enough to eat every day! According to my husband, that what this soup is like. And he likes it so much he has taken it to work with him each day this week. Carrots were on sale and the snow had finally hit the mountains after several sunny weeks – soup…
Creamy Roasted Garlic and Mushroom Soup
Sometimes I buy things on a whim in amounts that don’t seem realistic for my 2-person household. Like a 5-pound bag of limes or a 10-pound squash. This week it was a 1-pound container of baby bello mushrooms. I love mushrooms; I just usually don’t eat enough to finish even half that amount before they…
Fennel for the Everyday Joe (and Jane) + Soup Recipe
Fennel was on sale at the grocery store last week. I picked up a bulb, with all of its unruly fronds intact, and headed up to the front. “What do you use that for,” asked the guy at the checkout counter. “I see people buy it sometimes, but have no idea how I’d use it.”…
Curried cashew cauliflower and sweet potato soup and a cold, hard cider
Fall is in the air and I’ve been craving soup…warm, nourishing, and spicy soup! Last year, a friend of mine made a curried cauliflower soup that was delicious. I don’t have her recipe, and so I was inspired to create my own and to do it in the easiest way I could. This means, I…
Monster Soup
On my last trip to the farmer’s market, I bought a zucchini. The problem is, when I tried to pay for it, they wouldn’t let me leave without taking 2 more squash. My options were zucchini and zucchini…or the 1 Hubbard squash they had left. I opted for the 7-pound monster. The total for all…
High-energy Burrito Soup
This week, we have had more sun in Salt Lake City than we had in most of January. Unfortunately, we also have below-freezing temperatures, and the combination is messing with my head. I sit in the window and feel the warmth of the sun through the window, but when I walk outside, my disappointment that…
Red Lentil Soup on a Cold Winter’s Day
When the weather changes as drastically as it does here in Utah, what I crave does as well. When the snow hits, I gravitate towards soup and other comfort foods, and rely on a strong dose of color and spice to make up for the lack of sun. Red lentil soup fits the bill. I…
Simple GF Miso Soup for Camping and Backpacking
I was craving a steaming bowl of brothy soup today, but did not have the patience to make something from scratch. Instead, I grabbed a box of Whole Foods’ 365 brand miso soup out of the cupboard, some pre-sliced baby portobello mushrooms, leftover pork loin, a bundle of bean vermicelli, and then topped it with…
Hearty Russian Cabbage Soup with Buckwheat Pilaf
Last week, I made Heidi Swanson’s Lime & Peanut Coleslaw. The other half of the cabbage I bought has been waiting in the refrigerator ever since, along with some carrots and a couple of potatoes…together forming the inspiration for this evening’s meal: cabbage soup and buckwheat kasha. I know, I know – it sounds a…
Spicy Pumpkin Tomato Soup
Finding fresh produce in the dead of a rural, Moldovan winter is almost impossible. Almost. When I served in the Peace Corps many moons ago, the one winter vegetable – aside from onions and garlic – I came to rely most upon was pumpkin. It was readily available, sweet, and delicious. And I bought one…
Beet Walnut Soup with a Hint of Apples
When I was a 15-year-old exchange student living in Venezuela, I would often walk by a night club called La Remolacha. It struck me as a fabulous word, and I made it part of my working vocabulary. It is the Venezuelan word for “beet” and is pronounced “ray-mo-lah-chah”. It kind of sounds like a dance…