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This cream of broccoli soup, using a few different vegetables in addition to the broccoli to add flavor and texture in all the right places, will warm your body as well as your soul!
The colder weather encroaching upon many places this season demands some good soup recipes to warm us up. Hot soup invites small groups of friends to gather together outdoors, socially-distanced, around a fire to sip and chat. This delicious, hearty soup is perfect for such a gathering. The variety of […]
With good vegetable stock, you can adapt lots of soup recipes calling for chicken or beef stock to a vegetarian version. Using canned vegetable stock or a vegetable bouillon cube is always an easy alternative, but the stock I suggest here is much tastier, and pretty easy. Much of the […]
I bought a couple bunches of asparagus just before Easter weekend, because I come from a family that eats asparagus on Easter Sunday. Asparagus is a vegetable whose season is early spring. I used one bunch on Saturday night, and reserved the woody ends when I prepped them. Although I […]
I enjoy learning about unusual ingredients that can transform recipes from bland to scrumptious. Sometimes it takes using the ingredient in a variety of recipes to get a feel for how to use it spontaneously. The first time I used rose harissa was a little over a year ago, and […]
By using a slow cooker to cook the dried black beans for this soup, you can spend 5 minutes in the morning getting it going, then finish it off just before dinnertime without too much trouble. It took me about a half hour or so to chop the vegetables […]
The last recipe I posted, Vegetarian Borscht, was so delicious, but the wild mushroom broth I made as its base took awhile to cook. I was lamenting the time-consuming nature of the soup preparation last week as I savoured bowl after bowl of the soup throughout the week. I […]
The most delicious borscht I had ever eaten, until maybe now, was from a recipe in The Silver Palate Cookbook. The only problem with it is that it uses beef broth. I have been craving beets recently, and especially I have been craving that borscht. So I wanted to […]
This soup takes a little time spread over the day to make. It is easy to make, but you should make it on a day when you are home much of the time. It is delicious, hearty and a wonderful vegetarian meal to eat on a very cold day. […]