This is a great soup to have in your back pocket, it’s a chameleon of a soup, honey.  Easily adaptable to whichever vegetables you have on hand.  As a template I always include onion, celery, carrot, tomato, zucchini, green beans, frozen peas.  Also beans, either canned like cannellini, or a similar dry bean that are… Continue reading

If you are anything like me, a tad bit lazy sometimes when it comes to dinner time.  Then, this soup is for you. Easy to source ingredients, no broccoli rabe at your market?  Try another leafy green such as spinach or swiss chard instead, any kind of savory pork sausage will work, use up any… Continue reading

Growing up, dinner was usually cooked out of necessity, what my parents had shopped for that week and had on hand became dinner, there was no running to the store for a forgotten ingredient that’s for sure. My Mum did had a knack for creating dinner magic with a pound of ground beef. One week… Continue reading

When my daughter was younger she just didn’t like pureed soups.  I could never figure out why?  As she grew older, and more articulate, she informed me that she didn’t like pureed soup because every spoonful feels and tastes the same. Huh, who knew.   To get around that dilemma, I  found a few ways… Continue reading

Yesterday, as I was browsing through my saved Instagram images trying to come up with inspiration for dinner, I came across a recipe from Bon Appetite for this fabulous Chick Pea Ham and Kale soup.  Hearty beans with savory ham, and some greens to boot.   Normally I wouldn’t even consider making this soup, my husband… Continue reading

Today, I would like to give some credence to escarole.  It’s a New Year and I wanted to try something new, not just fall back on spinach or kale, my go-to’s in most recipes with leafy greens.  In the same category as endive and frisee; not really a lettuce, as it appears at first glance,… Continue reading

  With a ton of blogs out there suggesting what you can recreate with all those Thanksgiving leftovers. I thought I would veer hard in the other direction and suggest a soup.  Winter Minestrone, Gluten Free of course, and not a bit turkey in it. Think about it, wouldn’t you better appreciate something light, yet… Continue reading

Lately, I have noticed a lot of chatter in the food blogs about the Instant Pot – it’s kind of a modern day old time pressure cooker, meets slow cooker, or crock pot AND doubles as a rice cooker.   I must admit I am curious, but haven’t jumped on that bandwagon… yet. It got me thinking… Continue reading

A few weeks ago I posted a recipe for this fabulous black bean soup, hard to believe that a bag of God-knows-how-old dried beans  could produce such a remarkable bowl of soup.  I thank the crock pot for that. It was so easy that I felt we had to do it again, for  quality control… Continue reading

From my over stuffed pantry I unearthed 3 packages of dried beans while trying to find 2 packages of the same spaghetti for dinner.  To tell you the truth I have no idea how long they have been languishing in there.  Months? Years? The thing about dried beans, ancient in this case I fear,  is… Continue reading

In these dwindling December days filled with endless parties full of punch bowls laden with egg nog, bacon wrapped scallops on fancy trays, and entire tables devoted to artistic cheese displays, I thought you might appreciate something a bit lighter to ingest between Fêtes. This one simple soup may be the thing we all need… Continue reading

I have confessed in the past, to discussing dinner options while eating breakfast, which I think is smart if you have to think about defrosting or running to the market if you need a few more items.   I have not shared though, that I tend to discuss how to make — insert any dinner/… Continue reading

Okay, I was handed a challenge today.  A dear friend’s son has been having serious digestive issues, their Doctor suggested a version of the candida diet, which means basically no sugars or most grains.  He is 15 years old, and very active in sports, so starving all the time of course.  Could I possibly develop… Continue reading

I know that I have mentioned a few times before, that there are few foods that I don’t like.  And that really influences what I share here.  Why would I spend the time and energy to cook and photograph something that I don’t particularly like, right?. Up until last week, it didn’t occur to me… Continue reading

Okay, I am not saying I need to post a ton of low calorie, yet filling recipes this month due to my over indulgengces in all manner of foodstuffs, sweets, and of course wine over the holidays. This Roasted Mushroom Soup with Shallots and Thyme could fit that bill though, however, it really doesn’t deserve to… Continue reading

Well, I have to say, for me, it’s officially soup season, when the temperatures dip below 60, that’s it. Yipee.  I love soup, any kind. The boys here however sometimes need convincing, that yes, soup can be dinner. I have made many versions of this Chicken Tortilla Soup, but this one honey, is the best…. Continue reading

I have been wanting to share this recipe with you, since we visited the Galapagos last February. Not sure exactly why I never got around to it, perhaps it was the brutal winter we just experienced, cold marinated shrimp didn’t seem like the right fuel we needed for the endless shoveling.  Now with brightened skies… Continue reading

With a ton of blogs out there suggesting what you can recreate with all those Thanksgiving leftovers. I thought I would veer hard in the other direction and suggest a soup.  Winter Minestrone, Gluten Free of course, and not a bit turkey in it. Think about it, wouldn’t you better appreciate something light, yet filling,… Continue reading

I was watching the Barefoot Contessa the other day while she made homemade tomato soup, not hard to do really.  I started to wonder why I’ve never made it myself? I think it is perhaps time to put away the childhood version of tomato soup from the can, We deserve a more refined, grown up… Continue reading

I have a habit of picking up exotic food items and spices. Often, I find really obscure products at our expensive fancy market, love that. Other times, I find them while traveling. Okay, that’s certainly my favorite. Because, well I am off traveling. And if I am buying exotic foods,  I must be somewhere really… Continue reading

Finally, the first day of Spring has arrived. However,  lovely springtime weather is nowhere in sight. I don’t want to complain. But. We are still dealing with 20-30 degrees, windchill and flurries here. I am sure Spring is just around the corner, it has to be right? In the meantime I am still cooking hearty… Continue reading