Giving Thanks (Butternut Squash Apple Soup Recipe)

November 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
Butternut Apple Soup

I asked the boys where they wanted to go to dinner Friday night.  Chase screamed Bruxie’s and excitedly shared how amazing it was.  Luke agreed so we made the trek to the new one on Birch Street.  There was a line, but it went pretty quickly.  The boys were both in rare form, cracking each other up. You know what I mean, that crazy stupid humor only your brother or sister gets. Amazed, I watched my little nephew finish off the Buttermilk Fried Chicken Bruxie.  He really loves Bruxie! We talked and laughed and then moved on to our favorite [...]

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Baked Potato Soup

February 5, 2011 By 2 Comments
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I love potatoes.  Baked, mashed, gratin, fried, they are all good.  Last year I saw a recipe from Cooking Light for a Baked Potato Soup.  After a crazy few weeks today seemed like the perfect day for a comforting bowl of soup. The soup tastes so good you will assume it is rich and bad for you but this is a lightened up version.  It tastes like a loaded baked potato.  On the website it says the soup is one of their favorite recipes and I can see why. I was surprised how much I liked it and how easy [...]

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Roasted Red Pepper Soup with Puff Pastry and a Giveaway

December 5, 2010 By 51 Comments

I’ve been serving up sweet after sweet here and thought it might be time to take a break from Holiday Baking. Today I am serving up a delicious Roasted Pepper Soup with Puff Pastry. Years ago I visited Domaine Chandon in Napa and had this amazing dinner that started with a Tomato Soup topped with puff pastry.  It was one of my most memorable meals.  A few months ago at The Bistro Jeanty, their tomato soup tasted familiar to me.  Looking up the recipe it turns out the chef that created the soup at Domaine Chandon later opened up Bistro [...]

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Pumpkin Apple Soup with Cran Apple Relish, Plus A Winner

November 26, 2009 By 2 Comments

Today is Thanksgiving and is always a time to reflect on what we are most grateful for.  I remember as a little girl being so excited and the anticipation leading up to going to my grandparents.  Both my great grandmothers or Nana’s as I called them and my Papa Wells were around through my junior high years. Up until I was 7 years old I was an only child and only grandchild so let’s just assume I was well doted on.  I loved the big meal and sitting around the table talking. The pretty china that would have been laid [...]

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Tortilla Soup and a Food Styling Workshop

November 15, 2009 By 5 Comments
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Adolescent Medicine Rockwall This weekend I went to the Food Styling and Photography Class put on by Food Fanatics. Denise Vivaldo and Cindie Flannigan taught the food styling portion and Matt Armendariz of MattBites.com taught the food photography. I had a blast.  Denise, Cindy and Matt were so cool.  If I didn’t have to make a living I’d be following them around.  They all love what they do and it shines through. The first day we had several demonstrations on preparing food for the camera.  So many tools and secrets to making the food photograph well.  I am going to [...]

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Grilled Spicy Corn Soup

October 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Autumn makes me think of soup on the stove.  My favorites are Roasted Tomato and Roasted Red Pepper.  A creature of habit, I make those several times a season. In the process of checking out several new blogs I found a corn soup that had chipotle chilies in it.  I just couldn’t get past the 4 cups of half and half so I researched other recipes and put this one together.  This one utilizes more broth and less half and half.  While I am sure it is less creamy I hope you find it a lighter alternative.

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Tortilla Soup

April 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Don’t forget, today is the last day to enter the BBQ giveaway contest. The picture does not do this soup justice.  I had found that soup is just a great standby, even once the chill thaws a bit. I kept seeing recipes for tortilla soup and finally decided to give it a try. I have a chicken tortilla soup that  is one of my favorites but I found myself tempted each time I saw one of these recipes. This soup is healthy, spicy and full of flavor. If you make the baked chips you get the low cal version but [...]

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Roasted Red Pepper Soup

October 6, 2008 By 3 Comments

This week we were teased by cool fall weather here in Southern California.  Teased in between 90 degree days.  Fall is my favorite time of year. I might have mentioned that I was a picky eater growing up.  Soups were not on my menu.  Boy, did I miss out.  Cooking has opened up the door for foods I never would have tried. This was one of the first soups I made at home.  It is from Mark and Nancy Silverton’s At Home cookbook. The recipe is fairly easy.  You put everything in foil,  seal it all up and roast.  The [...]

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Roasted Tomato Soup

February 18, 2008 By 1 Comment

Today I made my favorite soup. It is Ina Garten’s Roasted Tomato Soup. I love it because it is bursting with flavor and is earthy and very rustic. The Goat Cheese Biscuits I talked about earlier would be a great side to this soup. While it might take a while, most of it waiting for the tomatoes to roast, it is worth the effort.

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