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Curl Up with this Pumpkin Corn Soup Topped with Pears and Prosciutto
Now that Halloween is over, discount pumpkin bins are popping up everywhere. I grabbed a few pie pumpkins from the supermarket this weekend to make a fall bounty soup. I wanted to create a bowl of pure...
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Pumpkin Turkey Chili: a Healthy Chili Cook Off Winner
I love a party, especially when there’s a food angle to the festivities. When the chili cook off invitation had come into my email in early December, I was so excited. I envisioned soaking a rainbow of...
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Indulge a Little with this Butternut Squash Coconut Bisque
The difference between a bowl of bisque and a bowl of soup is a treasure trove of hidden, lick the bowl clean, moan-inducing calories. Every once in a while, it’s fun to cheat and indulge. A big bowl...
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Acting my Age with Cream of Endive Soup
What foods did you hate as a child? I don’t mean foods that you vaguely disliked, that made you groan and complain to your mother until you sank your fork in and decided it wasn’t so bad after all. I’m...
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A Different Type of Chilled Soup: Roasted Carrot
Having squeezed my postpartum body into a bathing suit in public last weekend, I am back on my soup diet with a vengeance. Say what you will about breastfeeding, but it’s not melting the pounds off...
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Creamy Cucumber Gazpacho
When was the last time you had an amazing dish at a restaurant, something so good you wanted to lick the plate? For me it was a few weeks ago, when I begged a few bites of the cucumber gazpacho my...
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A Bisque in Name Only: Sweet Potato Corn Ancho Chili Bisque
If you lurk in food forums, you’ll find the strangest topics get people fired up. Did you know that bisque, vegetable bisque, is actually a controversial subject? Vegetables bisques should be called...
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Stone Soup: a Child’s Invitation to Fill the Pot
Have you ever made stone soup? More than a simple vegetable soup, it can be an invitation to get creative and fill the pot for the whole family. Long before my kids discovered the Disney Channel and...
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Chicken Soup for the Flu Plague
Have you gotten your flu shot this year? I got my flu shot, along with half of my children. But it didn’t save us from being hit by the flu plague over Thanksgiving break. The flu hit us like a mac...
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Sweet Potato and Sausage Stew: End World Hunger One Sweet Potato at a Time
Today, food bloggers all over the web will be showcasing sweet potato recipes. In partnership with One, led by Jane and Alice, we want to bring attention to world hunger by sharing warm and filling...
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Golden Tortellini Soup: Delicious Poultry Therapy
Happy chickens make happy soup. And yesterday, as the snow fell all day, slowly reducing the world to a quiet white wonderland, I definitely needed to fill my home with a dose of happy. News about my...
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Chunky Chicken and Vegetable Alphabet Soup to Gear up for Summer Frenzy
Summer is the time of freedom, of flashlight tag, capture the flag marathons spread over days, and movie nights on weeknights. But it’s also the time when meals can start to slide towards the less...
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Creamy Bacon Tomato Soup: A Love Letter to Myself
My cooking is done in large batches nowadays. It’s not uncommon to find two chickens roasting in my oven and double pans of duck fat potatoes crisping on the stovetop, while the slow cooker labors...
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Creamy Butternut Squash Bisque: a Slow Cooker Diet Treat
Vegetable soup is my favorite diet food. It can also be my favorite indulgence. This creamy bisque tastes decadent but only has a little cream cheese in it to give it texture. My typical New Year’s...
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Tomato Corn Chowder: a Comforting Riot of Color in a Bowl
The mountain of snow outside keeps on growing. At some point, it will be higher than the swingset. The snow keeps on falling, right along with the temperature. I’m cold, chilled all the way to the...
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Sorrow Soup: Kicking Depression to the Curb
Over the last few weeks, depression has wrapped his arms around me like an abusive lover. I escaped to California to outrun him, but he was right here waiting when I landed two days later in a...
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Cauliflower Cheddar Apple Soup
If routine is the friend of diet, then spring break is its death knoll. For the last month and a half, I’d been dieting quietly,being a good girl, not eating dessert and enjoying big bowls of vegetable...
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Golden Vegetable Soup: a Forgotten Childhood Staple
My sister called me the other day, asking me for my mother’s soup recipe. This is the soup we grew up with, the soup she served us for lunch on so many cloudy Parisian days. The soup we complained...
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Three Soup Recipes to Keep You Warm
Next week’s Chicago weather forecast is grim. Polar Vortex grim, with temperatures in the negative teens, and snowfall with multiple inches of accumulation. As you check your closets for winter coats...
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Dieting with Vegetable Soup and a Soup Google Hang Out with Emeril
I don’t believe in diets that radically alter the way you eat, tricking your body into shedding the weight. No carbs, no fat, no fruit… It’s not sustainable and not the right path. I diet with soup....
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