Lentil Vegetable Soup

Lentil Vegetable Soup

Nothing beats a good, hearty soup that has inexpensive ingredients, feeds a lot of people, and doesn’t take long to make. To prepare a vegetarian lentil soup, don’t add meat and substitute vegetable broth for the chicken broth. Original recipe for this...
Chilled Cucumber Soup

Chilled Cucumber Soup

Chilled soup seems like an oxymoron to me, but I was determined to do something light and summery for this month’s offering. I was blown away at the delicate pale celadon color of this soup. And if I were to give a temperament to this soup, I would call it shy. It’s...
Gazpacho

Gazpacho

Never a huge gazpacho fan, but I was in search of something summery in which I could also use all the veggies I had overgrowing in my garden, so gazpacho was a natural selection. The key to good gazpacho is fresh ingredients, the right balance of veggies and the right...
Minestrone Soup

Minestrone Soup

This is the soup I have made most often, that my kids ask for the most and that I can make blindfolded with one hand behind my back. It’s a kind of take on a milestone sans the pasta. Well, that might be overstating it, but suffice it to say, you do not have to...