#17: Digging through old cookbooks for soup recipes
I took advantage of the recent cold weather to dig through my extensive cookbook collection for soup recipes. I love old cookbooks for their language, old ingredients, and especially their technicolor...
View ArticleDay #18: Bean Porridge
According to the Grandmother’s copy of the Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook, “Bean Porridge” should be served “piping hot on a blustery day.” Well, today is definitely blustery (or should I say still...
View Article#20: “Homemade” Broth
One of my favorite shows on NPR is The Splendid Table. It is aired here on Sundays at 3:00. Sunday afternoons usually finds us outside (when it is not arctic weather), in the green house, or working...
View Article#21: Yukon Gold Baked Potato Soup
Sorry, but today I again am sending you back to a post from October for Yukon Gold Baked Potato Soup. I was able to make this soup with Yukon Golds that we raised. Yukon Gold Potato
View Article#22: A recipe from Champaign-Urbana
I was recently on a business trip and had to travel to the Champaign-Urbana area. It was colder at home (-19) and we actually had a lot more snow at home than even in the Chicago area. I grabbed a...
View Article#23: Reaffirming our quest to eat healthier
Looking back over my twenty-two recent posts (and sparked by the article I referenced yesterday), I was prompted to try to find some healthier soup recipes. So I started searching on Cook Eat Share,...
View Article#24: Mexicali Broccoli-Cheese Soup
Mom makes the best broccoli soup. My nephews love it and when they were really little they would ask her to make “brocci ‘oup.” On our quest to lighten up, I found a similar recipe at Eating Well....
View Article#25: Soup and Salad
Tonight for dinner we are going to have left over Mexicali Broccoli-Soup with a fresh salad. And, do I mean fresh! The lettuce and radishes and tomatoes were just picked from our green house flats...
View Article#26: Roasted Corn, Pepper and Tomato Chowder
As I posted earlier, I have been scouring through cookbooks and searching the internet for lighter and healthier soup recipes. I loved the pesto soup I made last week and the veggie soup from Eating...
View ArticleOK—I am done with soup.
I know that the original Soup Challenge that my husband issued to me was suppose to last thirty-nine days. Why thirty-nine days, you might ask? Because that is how long one season of Survivor lasts....
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