Today I made another batch of “free” veggie stock! I love doing this. I save all my veggie scraps in a gallon zip-lock bag in the freezer: carrot peels/ends, onion ends, fennel fronds/stalks, celery ends/leaves, broccoli ends, parsley/herb stems, etc. I don’t save too many cruciferous veggies like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, as they can overpower [...]
Posts Tagged ‘soup’
Pacific Natural Foods Soups – Why All the Sugar?
When I visited Whole Foods Grocery last week, I was planning to purchase a carton or two of soups from Pacific Natural Foods. They were on sale for $2.79 and Whole Foods was offering a $1 coupon. Personally, I like Pacific Natural Foods as a company. They are independently owned, unlike Imagine Foods, which is [...]
Nana’s Chicken Soup from New England Soup
First let me say that it’s difficult for me to say anything negative about local food products, but I really wasn’t happy with Nana’s Chicken Soup from New England Soup company. I purchased a couple of pouches of soup at Market Basket a few weeks ago, to keep on hand when I didn’t have anything [...]
Spicy Fennel Tomato Soup Recipe
I’ve borrowed the new Gwyneth Paltrow cookbook from the library – “My Father’s Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness“. I started reading and was immediately intrigued by the recipe on page 58 – “White Bean Soup: Two Ways” – I had a fennel bulb in my crisper drawer and was stumped on how [...]
Eggplant Parmesan Soup
I found a fabulous soup book at the library! New England Soup Factory Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes from the Nation’s Best Purveyor of Fine Soup is written by a local woman who operates two restaurants in the Boston area. I’ve never heard of her restaurants, but the book looked interesting with gorgeous photos and [...]
Soups and One Pot Meals Cookbook Review
This is a review for the cookbook Soups and One-Pot Meals the 100 Best Recipes from around the World by Christian Teubner (1998) The first thing I noticed about the recipe design is that the ingredients list was centered making it a little more difficult to read. Plus more multiple ingredients were sometimes listed on [...]
