Won Good Soup!

This past weekend both Things 1 and 4 had fevers and tummy ickiness and the rest of us just felt generally worn out. So, while I was in The Grocery Store Saturday AM, I decided to add a little Chinese remedy for what ailed me/us. Won Ton soup. Ever since I was [...]

Warm Comfort for a Cold Night

Sorry to have slipped off the edge of the Earth (we live in Illinois, of course it’s flat!). I didn’t mean to abandon you for so long. We ate some New Year’s leftovers and I haven’t been generating anything spectacular — meatloaf and mashed potatoes, egg rolls that were originally intended to be [...]

My Soup Bowl Runs Over

I’m not including these in my LOT#3 entry, but it’s more of the same . . . using up that rice last week. I was the main dish provider for small group so I made two different soups.
One was a chicken and rice soup — pretty straight forward. I made my own broth [...]

Canned Cassoulet

Today we’re having ‘blizzard conditions’. These are the views from the upstairs window and the front door. I hate snow. So, it seems like a perfect time to stay inside and make a little soup. I call a soup a ‘canned soup’ when I open cans to make it — [...]

Recipe of the Day — Split Pea Soup

Several weeks ago our neighbor went on an ‘anti-inflammatory diet’ which includes cutting out all wheat, corn, beef, pork, dairy and a few other things (she says it’s been working great and she’s feeling much better). So she went through her kitchen and pulled those things out of her pantry and fridge/freezer and brought [...]