Looking for recipe ideas for soups for Thanksgiving? I got you covered with 7 classic Fearless Eating recipes and 10 recipes from a wide variety of great food blogs. Soups are great to make ahead and save yourself some time in the kitchen on the day of the big feast. They also make a great […]
Rich (but not too rich) and sweet (but not too sweet), this roasted carrot apple soup works any time of the year but is especially suited for autumn when apples are in season. It’s especially well-suited for kids as most will find the sweetness in this recipe very palatable. This recipe could also teach kids […]
Who doesn’t love a simple butternut squash soup in the cold weather months? Its dense flesh and nutty flavor is a bit like sweet potatoes but with more of a butterscotch-like flavor. Warming spices like cinnamon and nutmeg make it all the more nourishing and delicious. It’s a close call with my Roasted Carrot Apple […]
I scream it from the rafters EVERY Thanksgiving. Don’t throw away the turkey carcass! Save that gelatinous-rich puppy, make turkey stock, and then a delicious leftover thanksgiving soup recipe. Because once you have the turkey stock, there’s an almost infinite amount of leftover thanksgiving soup recipes you can make. How to Make a Leftover Thanksgiving Soup […]
Welcome back to part 2 in my fresh tomato soup series! Today’s recipe is for a roasted cherry tomato soup. It’s not too much of a departure from part 1 for a basic tomato soup recipe (though parts 3 through 6 will be VERY different) but I wanted to feature a recipe that exclusively uses […]
Welcome to part I in my tomato soup series! With so many luscious, beautiful tomatoes currently in season, I figured a blog series on different ways to use them in soups would be a lot of fun. In today’s post, I’m going to start with a simple and basic tomato soup recipe. For each post […]
What’s better than a chilled avocado soup recipe in the heat of late summer? TWO chilled avocado soup recipes! But first, a brief explanation of each recipe with some tips. Chilled Avocado Soup Recipe #1: Avocado Bisque with Cherry Tomatoes Though obviously not a true bisque, it has that classic creamy bisque-like consistency. It blends […]
In early August, when the cucumbers grow large and the tomatoes start arriving in all their beautiful incarnations of reds, yellows, and oranges, like an early sign of autumn’s imminence, a cucumber tomato gazpacho ebbs its way into my summer soup rotation. Gazpacho is the consummate soup to make use of the bounty of late […]
What’s better than one zucchini soup recipe? Two zucchini soup recipes, of course! Zucchini soups are a fantastic way to use up extra zucchini during its peak growing season. It grows so fast in summer that most people don’t know what to do with it all. Well, you can make large batches of soup with it […]
Oh how I love to hear my parents talk about the big traditional Sunday family dinners when they were growing up in the 1940s and 1950s. Their grandmothers, immigrants from Italy, would cook a huge Italian feast for dozens of cousins, aunts and uncles. Homemade pasta, tomato sauce, a variety of meats, antipasto, soups, […]
If I played a word association game with every American and I said the word “soup,” I guarantee you the most common response would be “Campbell’s.” To see how successful they’ve been just take a stroll down the soup aisle of your conventional mega-supermarket. You’ll see the same two companies dominating the aisle in every […]
As a kid, the only nettles I knew had a smooth swing (perfect for the right-field porch in Yankee Stadium) and was a defensive wizard at third base. That would be Graig Nettles for those of you non-baseball fans. Now as an adult, I’ve learned to identify, harvest, and cook nettles, the edible plant that grows […]