This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Danone. The opinions and text are all mine. For a refreshing, seasonal meal, try my summertime soup and salad combination with a vegan corn chowder and a simple green salad. If, like me, you want to adopt a more plant-based diet, summer is the best time to do it. With so many ...
Butternut Squash Soup Shooters
A fun way to entertain or serve a crowd this winter: butternut squash soup shooters! The school where JR takes his music lessons -- a place that is like a second home to him -- recently hosted its annual fundraiser to raise money for its scholarship fund and for the regional housing center. The event featured live music, beer pours from ...
Three Cheese IPA Soup Shooters from Food on Tap
Don't just serve beer at your Super Bowl party; put beer in the food! Like these cheddar-and-beer soup shooters from the new book Food on Tap: Cooking with Craft Beer by Lori Rice. Cheese and beer are two necessary components of a good Super Bowl party. That much goes without saying. You could just make a really nice cheese plate and serve ...
Roasted Cauliflower Soup
Meal planning in January can be struggle between our New Year's resolutions to eat healthier and our desire for comfort foods to warm our souls in the dark of winter. Consider the struggle over. This rich, creamy roasted cauliflower soup will satisfy your cravings for warmth and comfort without causing any guilt because it's nutritious, meatless, ...
How to Make Turkey Stock
Did your family enjoy a wonderful roast turkey for Christmas dinner? I hope you saved the carcass! Because you can turn that carcass into rich, delicious turkey stock which is perfect for making soup and risotto, or for braising greens this winter. (Don't want to deal with the carcass this week with everything else you have going on? Wrap it ...
Potato Leek Soup (Potage Parmentier)
In the Victorian Christmas carol "In the Bleak Midwinter," which was based on a poem by Christina Rossetti, there is a line: "Snow had fallen, snow on snow/Snow on snow[.]" That line seems particularly apt right now as Chicago braces itself for not one but two possible winter storms over the next 48 hours. What to eat when you are facing the ...
Homemade Minestrone
Could you use a nice, comforting bowl of soup right now? I know I could. I spent the last three weekends -- three! -- traveling and the end result of six plane rides, two hotel stays, several early mornings and too many late nights is that I'm sick. I have an awful chest cold and cough and basically sound like a Brontë sister. Hack, cough, hack, ...
Chicken-Stuffed Kreplach
I have extolled the virtues of kreplach, a Jewish meat-filled pasta dumpling usually served in soup, on this site several times before. They are, in fact, one of my favorite traditional Jewish foods not only because they are delicious, but also because they remind me of my grandmother, Hortense Paster, who was a marvelous cook. Grandma made ...
Matzo Ball Soup
Passover begins this Friday, April 22nd, at sundown and Jews all over the world are preparing for their Seders. The Passover Seder is the most widely celebrated ceremony in the Jewish year. Even Jews who do not observe any other religious ritual will host or attend a Seder. There is something magical about the idea that Jews all over the world ...
Roasted Cauliflower Soup with Ras El Hanout
Like so many people, my husband and I are trying to lose a few pounds and eat more healthfully. (I'm literally eating raw cookie dough as I write this, so I guess he is trying harder than I am. Mmmm...cookie dough.) Therefore, I was very proud to tell him, when he arrived home the other night, that the rich, creamy cauliflower soup I was about ...