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 Gazpacho, along with my Roasted Cherry Tomato Soup, ebbs its way into my summer soup rotation. Gazpacho is the consummate cold soup to […]
Welcome back to part 2 of my fresh tomato soup series! Today’s recipe is for an easy 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 […]
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 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 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, […]