Homemade Cream of Mushroom Soup

February 20, 2012 By 1 Comment
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Cream of mushroom soup is one of those pantry staples that is no longer in my pantry.  Every time I look at the ingredients and the amount of sodium in a can, I just can't bring myself to actually pay money for it.  I do, however, have an easy homemade "cream of" soup recipe that is so much tastier, cheaper and healthier than the cans.  I usually just make a batch when a recipe calls for the soup.  It's an extra step, but for me, it's worthwhile.  Then I saw a suggestion to make a large … [Read more...]

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Manhattan Clam Chowder

January 24, 2012 By 2 Comments
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I wish you could smell my house while this cooked.  Oh my goodness.  Better yet, make this yourself and your children will run around telling you how good it smells (even if they refuse to eat it!). I've made a New England Clam Chowder (the white creamy kind), but this was my first foray into Manhattan Clam Chowder, which is the "red" one.  This is actually my husband's preferred type of clam chowder and I was in the mood for chowder, but nothing too thick.  This got better the next day … [Read more...]

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Broccoli Cheese Soup

November 23, 2011 By 1 Comment
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When my husband and I were first dating, we ate at Panera every single week after church.   We loved to get the broccoli cheese soup in a bread bowl.  This is the closest I've come to replicating that soup -- it was delicious! The recipe calls for 4 heads of broccoli, but I had a bag of chopped broccoli from Costco. I just kept putting broccoli in until it looked like enough. I used an immersion blender to blend the soup just a little leaving most of the broccoli whole. But feel free to … [Read more...]

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Slow Cooker Lentil and Sausage Soup

November 2, 2011 By 3 Comments
Lentil

When I do my weekly menu planning, I usually run the completed menu by my husband just to get his input.  One week recently I put lentil soup on the menu and we ended up in quite a heated discussion about lentil soup.  He doesn't like it if the lentils aren't cooked enough (this happened ONCE!) and I like lentils because they are super inexpensive. The next day he came from work and told me that the DJ on the radio had been talking about cheap but healthy meal options.  The most … [Read more...]

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Italian Wedding Soup

October 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Wedding soup

Making homemade soup, believe it or not, is very simple. I used to think that soup required a lot of time to make, but the exact opposite is true.  Most soups that I make require 30 minutes or less of prep and cooking! And they are so much healthier and taste better than the canned stuff. Italian Wedding Soup is one of our all time favorite soups. If you have broth and meatballs in the freezer, this literally takes about 15 minutes to come together.  I serve it with fresh bread from the … [Read more...]

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How To Make Chicken Broth

October 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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I started coming down with a cold a few days ago, which means lots of "Jewish Pencillin", or SOUP, for me! Homemade stock is so much better for you than canned broth. You can cook a lot of healthy goodness in to your stock! It is also a GREAT way to make use of leftover bits and pieces that would otherwise be thrown away. The ingredients for broth are easy: meat/bones; veggies; water; spices! Any combination of these will work and you can even leave out the meat/bones for a vegetable … [Read more...]

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Italian Sausage Minestrone Soup

October 19, 2011 By 2 Comments
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I love making homemade soup for dinner. It makes a filling, inexpensive dinner especially when paired with homemade bread and a tossed salad.  This my second recipe for minestrone soup. The first one used meatballs, but this one uses Italian sausage.  I have to say, I love them both! I don't usually use canned tomatoes and when I make this again, I won't bother with them so feel free to use any diced tomato you have on hand. This recipe makes a ton of soup.  We had enough for dinner and … [Read more...]

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Slow Cooker Hot and Sour Soup

September 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
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I'm not really a fan of hot and sour soup, but my husband loves it with a passion! He gave his unequivocal stamp of approval on this recipe.  I thought it was OK, but again, I'd rather be eating something else. You can add whatever you want to this soup as far as veggies go.  I used what I had on hand, but you could add in water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, even chicken or pork. And feel free to halve the recipe for a small batch (or make the big one and freeze it!). Slow Cooker Hot and … [Read more...]

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Meatball Minestrone Soup

August 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
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We had this soup for dinner the other night.  It was 104 degrees outside.  But I really missed eating soup! So we did.  In fact, we cooked the meatballs in the grill. I didn't like the meatball recipe I used.  I usually use this recipe and I love it! So use that one for this soup. I also used tomato sauce instead of diced tomatoes because what I thought was diced tomatoes was in fact strained tomatoes. Oops.  I avoid tomatoes in cans because the cans have BPA in them. Tomatoes are also … [Read more...]

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