June 30, 2008
Oh I know what you must be thinking. Soup? in the summer? But why?
And to that, dear readers, all I can say is things don’t always happen as planned…
For example, I was planning on sharing a birthday cake with you today. No, scratch that, I wanted to make birthday creme brulee (my specialty). But, when you get sick on your birthday, like fever-laden, cold-ridden, tied-to-your bed sick, it’s a little hard to think about cake…or even creme brulee, even if it is your birthday.
Yes, sadly, on my birthday, all I could think about was soup. And when you’re drowning in a metaphorical bowl of self pity, you might as well top it off with a real bowl of soup. And hey, soup is supposed to make you get better, right?
So if any of you feel struck with the sick plague this summer, let there be plenty of soup recipes to go around. Even if it is summer.
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March 31, 2008
This post is my protest to Mother Nature. As Hillary mentioned last week, the first day of Spring in Chicago came and went without so much as a break in the cold temperatures or a pause in the snow. We’re still quite cold and dreary here. And even though our loyal Cub’s fans are willing to pretend it’s baseball weather, I don’t think I’ll be in that mentality until I see some sunshine.
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February 8, 2008
I had every intention of being a very busy cook last weekend. I had picked out recipes, planned menus and was on the whole very excited about trying new things. But R got sick with a very bad case of the flu and my cooking plans switched from gourmet to comfort foods. I’ve mentioned before that R comes from a family who cooks a great deal and always has some sort of homemade soup in the fridge (along with homemade potato blintzes and blini… mmm!). So as you can imagine, the pressure was on to cook this boy some homemade remedies and first on my list was chicken noodle soup.
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February 1, 2008
Good g-d it is snowy out there! Chicago weather really knows how to pile it on. You know it’s bad when the snow keeps up a steady heavy pace for 20 straight hours and the ordinarily-10-minute-drive takes you an hour and 10 minutes instead. My back hurts from cleaning off the foot-high mounds of snow off my car, and I know I’m not the only one.
In fact, I know that what we all need right now is a steaming hot and hearty bowl of soup. My body yearns for something to warm me up and soup would be just perfect.
So lucky for me, we just picked a winner for the Recipe4Living Soup Contest last week. With the overwhelming stream of soup recipes that came in, I now know what soup to make. And the winner is…
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January 7, 2008
I’m sure you’ve all heard, seen or tasted soup in bread bowls at some point in your lives. But before now, the genius behind recipes like Zesty Egg Salad Bowl, or Chili in a Biscuit Bowl have never really been brought to the forefronts of our public imagination.
Butt Foods (no joke!) has declared a revolution by kicking the fantastic world of bread bowls up a notch by adding flavors and even different shapes into the scheme. Yes, bread bowls now come in different flavors and you can read today’s Telegraph article that tells us all about it!
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November 28, 2007
It was 30 degrees on the Wednesday before an undoubtedly food-filled weekend. Here’s how my conversation with R went on on my way home that night:
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