Butternut Squash Soup

Butternut Squash Soup serves 6-8 2        2-pounds butternut squash 2        medium size potato 6        tablespoons olive oil 1         medium onion, finely chopped 1         clove garlic, diced 3        carrots, peeled and diced 3       [...]

Soup is Perfect Winter Fare

I think dark chocolate is the world’s greatest comfort food.  But in freezing temperatures, hot soup comes in second.  Even before tasting he soup, just holding a hot cup in my hand and smelling the garlic and spice aroma spreads warmth through my system. Long time ago, when I lived in Washington D.C. I worked [...]

Hot Weather, Have a Cup of Gaspacho

During my last visit to Spain I loved their wonderful cold soup, Gaspacho. Although many countries claim a cold soup as part of their national cuisine, the credit really goes to Spain for inventing the original.  We now are blessed with cold potato soup, which the French call Vichyssoise, pureed potato and leek soup with [...]

Nutritionist and Chef’s Nightmare: A Fat Husband/ Acorn Squash Soup

I never got excited over my husband’s weight, primarily because he always came home from his physical examinations with acceptable levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.  I attributed his weight problem to an excess of love for my food.  Whenever anyone brought up the subject toe me, I would say that he’s just eating too much [...]

Soups, Potato Leek Soup

I once read a children’s story about “stone soup.”  It told of a man who had no money but who was very hungry.  As he begged, unsuccessfully, for morsels of food from people in his village, he came upon an idea to fill his stomach. He found an old soup pot, filled it with water, [...]