Soups

Looking for a quick and easy soup recipe? Fiesta Chowder is a full of flavor soup that can be made start to finish in just 30 minutes. My first experience with this quick and easy soup recipe was at a baby shower given by my cousin back in 2003. Everyone at the shower loved this…

In the winter I love to use my crock-pot for evening meals.  I’ve made crock-pot beef stew weekly since the first of the year.  We love this and it’s not at all difficult to make. I’m lucky to have a source for local farm-raised beef.  My friend at school farms and I buy a quarter…

I first made Chicken Corn Chowder in December of 2002 and have been making it regularly ever since. We love soup any time of the year and it’s particularly nice on a cold and snowy evening.  It recently snowed in my area of Virginia and I made this soup for us to enjoy after a…

Happy 2015!  It’s a new year and if you follow tradition, you’ll have black eye peas for one of your first meals.  Several years ago my friend invited me over for a New Year’s meal where she served Lucky Soup, a traditional family dish.  At the time I didn’t realize that I liked black eye peas, I…

What’s better for a winter meal than soup?  To me, it doesn’t have to be winter to enjoy a good bowl of soup.  In fact, we enjoy it year-round!  My vegetable soup is easy to make and is quite tasty.  I can’t believe that it’s taken me 20 years of cooking on my own to…

  Now that it is officially winter, I crave soups and casseroles for dinner.  There’s nothing like coming home on a cold winter’s night after a long day at work and enjoying a hot bowl of soup.  I like soups that I can make ahead of time and reheat or that I can make in…

One of the great things about Thanksgiving is enjoying the leftovers.  My mom lets me take home the turkey carcass after Thanksgiving every year so that I can make soup.  Last weekend’s “Thanksgiving Style Supper Club” dinner left me with a meaty carcass, perfect for soup to enjoy this week. Have you ever made soup…