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Thai Fusion Chickpea Stew
Stews have topped my list this year for favorite dinner meals. As everyone in the U.S. knows: it’s been cold this winter, baby. Sooo cold. Stews are thick and comforting and, like soup, can come...
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Broccoli Cauliflower Glow Soup
The first few months of the year are always a fickle time for cooks. January means recovering from December’s gluttony with super-healthy eating, clean food, lots of fruits and vegetables. Then...
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Chilled Lemon Basil Avocado Soup
Even as a big-time fan of soup, I’m the first to admit that it takes a back seat in summer cooking. Not because it’s a hot dish — we still drink coffee and make big pots of barbecue baked beans...
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Italian Tortellini Soup with Sausage
There’s so much to love about soup. As a food form, the variation possibilities are endless: hot/cold, savory/sweet, thick/brothy/chunky, carnivore/veggievore,...
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Vegetarian Thai Peanut Soup
I’m typing this with 4″ of snow piled on the deck rail outside my window. Schools are closed, and snow-heavy leaves still clinging to their trees brought down power lines in spots around the city. Ugh....
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Slow Cooker Turkey Stock
The very first time I made soup stock was in grad school. Just a simple vegetable stock was what I wanted. I added onions, celery, and carrots to a pot of water and set it to simmer. My apartment...
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Avgolemono Turkey Soup
I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving day, and that you’re rarin’ to go into the holiday season! I also hope that the Thanksgiving cooks amongst you had — or will have soon — a chance to make some...
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Mushroom Lentil Adzuki Bean Soup
Oh, boy. It’s the Monday after New Year’s, the day everyone targeted as the beginning of their, “This year I will …” lists. You ready? Even though December was really mild on the temperature front...
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Cold-Fighting Couscous Chicken Soup
I knew this winter was going to be a tough one when my annual, knock-down-drag-out cold arrived in October. I really hope that I’ve paid my cold dues for the season, but judging by the red-noses and...
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Jalapeño Beer Cheese Soup
The artisan food and beverage movement has created so many lovely businesses in my hometown, I can’t keep count. Cincinnati has a deep and rich beer history, thanks, in part, to its German heritage:...
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Vegetarian French Onion Soup
Along with chili and maybe bolognese, French onion soup ranks right up there with kitchen aromas that cut through the dark chill of winter. It’s a Sunday sort of soup that likes a long cook to produce...
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Sourdough Rye Bread Bowls
I had never thought to serve soup in a bread bowl until Panera came along. The first time I had its (now sadly long discontinued) Cuban Black Bean soup in that tender sourdough bread bowl, I was...
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Favorite Soups and Staying in Touch
Hi Everyone! I hope-ity hope-hope that winter will start winding down with the turn of the month. It’s extra cruel when Mother Nature slaps us down (more snow! bitter cold!) just when we need to see...
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Sardinian Longevity Minestrone
I recently started reading The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest, the book profiling regions of the world where residents routinely live to 100 and beyond....
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Turkey Pumpkin Chili
It’s pumpkin season (and pumpkin spice overload season), but I’ve done surprisingly little baking. Zero baking, actually, unless you count the icky packaged cornbread mix I used to serve with today’s...
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Sicilian Chicken Stew
I added this Silician Chicken Soup pin to my Pinterest boards last week, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. I am such a sucker for a really good chicken and vegetable soup, and it had all...
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Slow-simmered Red Bean Soup
Winter is finally here with claws extended — let this thick and hearty red bean soup, slow-simmered on the stove with lots of vegetables and spices, warm you from the inside out. Happy New Year,...
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Thai Ramen Noodle Chicken Soup
Get out of the winter soup rut with bright and flavorful thai ramen noodle chicken soup. Thanks to quick cooking ramen noodles, this dish comes together quickly with leftover chicken, for a hearty...
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Chicken Enchilada Soup
Zesty Mexican flavors make this thick and hearty chicken enchilada soup the perfect winter meal! If you’re like me, you have a mysterious instinct for certain culinary ingredients. Crazy-talented...
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Lemongrass Curry Soup with Cashew Cream
A deeply-flavored homemade savory base highlights this lemongrass curry soup, made substantial with barley and topped with cashew cream. Naturally vegan, absolutely delicious! When I was a full-on...
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