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Easy Pumpkin Soup Recipe for One with Pumpkin Spice

October 29, 2018 by Faith Leave a Comment

This Easy Pumpkin Soup Recipe for One with Pumpkin Spice is rich and creamy with complex savory flavor, and comes together in just 20 minutes!

Pumpkin soup is one of my favorite seasonal comfort foods and I make several different varieties of it. This one is fairly basic but aromatic with onion, garlic and fresh ginger, and complex-flavored because of the addition of pumpkin pie spice mix. I don’t add any sweetener here; instead, I use touch of a spice called fenugreek to add a hint of caramel-y maple flavor without adding sugar. This will become your go-to recipe when you have just half a cup of pumpkin left in the bottom of the can!…

Low-Carb Cheesy Tomato Basil Chowder

December 11, 2017 by Faith 1 Comment

Similar to fondue, Low-Carb Cheesy Tomato Basil Chowder uses a secret ingredient – a touch of white wine – to help keep the cheese from becoming stringy. Offhand it’s hard to think of a more comforting wintertime meal than tomato soup. Maybe it’s nothing more than Campbell’s has a great marketing campaign (mmm, mmm good!). Or maybe it’s because as a kid I remember my dad making tomato soup on the regular in the winter (and he’d add to it – of all the odd things – macaroni noodles!). Whatever the reason, tomato soup just feels right to me this time of year....

Blushing Strawberry Onion and Tomato Soup, Hot or Chilled

July 10, 2017 by Faith 1 Comment

Blushing Strawberry Onion and Tomato Soup is equally delicious served hot or chilled, and makes a refreshing dinner along with a green salad on a hot summer evening. I promise that’s not just poor grammar in the title (as in, where did that comma go?). I’m talking about what is actually called a “strawberry onion”, which was a new-to-me thing until this year when I went strawberry picking here in Florida. (Oddly enough, I never encountered a strawberry onion all the years I went picking back home in New York…maybe it’s a Florida thing?)...

Polish Cold Beet Soup (Chłodnik)

August 29, 2016 by Faith 3 Comments

Polish Cold Beet Soup (Chłodnik) is a variation of red borscht that’s served cold during hot summer months. Its sweet/sour flavor is refreshing and its rich pink color makes it as pretty as it is delicious. Here you go. The waitress set down huge bowls of cold borscht and hurried off. It was the prettiest shade of fuchsia with flecks of fresh green dill peeking through, and quartered hard-boiled egg adorned the top of each bowl....

Beer and Cheese Cauliflower Soup

April 1, 2016 by Faith 11 Comments

Beer and Cheese Cauliflower Soup has rich, complex flavor and rivals anything you’d get at a restaurant. It comes as a surprise (actually more of a shock) to most people when I tell them that the food scene in Buffalo is actually pretty fabulous. I kid you not though. The gamut ranges from fish fries to roast beef on weck, to Buffalo wings and chicken finger subs (which I literally can’t find anywhere else! Believe me, I’ve looked), to killer doughnuts and the best coffee ever, to name just a few of their specialties. One of mine and Mike’s top two restaurants when we lived […]...

Creamy Reuben Soup

March 14, 2016 by Faith 13 Comments

Creamy Reuben Soup is a lower-carb version of this favorite deli sandwich! I first heard of Reuben Soup from a co-worker about five years ago. She ordered it when out to lunch one day (the name of the restaurant where she had it escapes me! It was somewhere in downtown Buffalo though), and her description of it sounded amazing. She raved about it every single day for at least a week straight, lol....

Broccoli Cheddar Soup {Gluten-Free; Lactose-Free}

March 2, 2016 by Faith 5 Comments

This Broccoli Cheddar Soup recipe is deliciously satisfying; it comes together quick, but has slow-simmered depth of flavor. Winter here in NoVA is a funny thing. You’ll be rolling along mid-January without so much as a snow flurry to speak of (wondering if you’ll even see a snowflake this year), and then suddenly a single storm hits and you’re three feet under....

Cream of Celery Soup {Gluten-Free}

February 26, 2016 by Faith 5 Comments

Gluten-Free Cream of Celery Soup celebrates the simple flavor of celery, which is surprisingly sweet, in this rich, velvety soup. Pouring through old cookbooks with a cup of something hot in hand is one of my favorite ways to spend an afternoon. I’m always surprised that cookbooks go so far beyond just teaching us how to cook and what to eat; they’re full of knowledge about history and especially culture....

Easy Miso Chicken Soup

January 22, 2016 by Faith 15 Comments

Easy Miso Chicken Soup comes together in 30 minutes for a delicious weeknight dinner! Friends frequently ask Mike and I where we want to travel next, and both of us immediately think of going back to Thailand because it completely stole our hearts. The only problem with that is there are so many other beautiful places we want to visit first; Turkey, Eastern Europe, and Japan are all high on our list, with Japan in particular being near the top....

Macaroni and Cheeseburger Vegetable Soup

October 12, 2015 by Faith 12 Comments

This Macaroni and Cheeseburger Vegetable Soup has all the flavors of a classic burger, but in cold-weather comfort food form. If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you probably know that I enjoy traveling. I love experiencing new cultures or even just new regions of the US, and immersing myself in the foods the locals eat. But I’d be lying if I said I don’t enjoy coming back home and returning to my routine. At heart, I’m a creature of habit, happiest in my home....