Soups

Hot Soup for the Summer Heat! Cauliflower and White Bean Soup

Hot Soup for the Summer Heat! Cauliflower and White Bean Soup

As we head into a hot summer, who doesn’t need a calming bowl of hot soup? I know I do.   Hot soup????  In the summer? It turns out that there is some science behind the practice of eating hot soup on hot days. Epicurious,…

Persian Lentil Beet Soup

Persian Lentil Beet Soup

Look at the beautiful color of this soup! I’d venture to guess that  you are thinking that this is a tomato-based soup. But, no. This is a Lentil and Beet Soup and it is downright delicious. This soup is cooked from a recipe in Naz…

Joy and Resilience and Spinach and Potato Soup

Joy and Resilience and Spinach and Potato Soup

  “To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.” ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan   There is a sorrow in Irish history that is undeniable–the famine, “The Troubles,”  and on and on. There is also strength and resolve…

Lemony Cauliflower and Carrot Soup

Lemony Cauliflower and Carrot Soup

Could you use a steaming bowl of creamy rich soup about now? The world is having a heartbreakingly-bad week. This recipe is adapted from Melissa Clark’s recipe on the NYT site. Here is a link to the original recipe: Lemony Carrot and Cauliflower Soup.

Cauliflower, Potato and White Bean Soup

Cauliflower, Potato and White Bean Soup

Wishing you a happy new year filled with all good things–including great gastronomical delights. As for me, I’m looking for comfort food as we ease into 2022 and this New York Times soup recipe (Cauliflower, Potato and White Bean Soup) has “comfort” written all over…

Moosewood’s Ybor City Potato and Garbanzo Soup

Moosewood’s Ybor City Potato and Garbanzo Soup

Ah, Moosewood! I owe them big time. I honed so many of my cooking skills on their cookbooks, beginning with  Mollie Katzen’s delightful handwritten and self-illustrated Moosewood Cookbook back in the 1970s.. Katzen introduced me to everything from hummus to banana raita. The book is…

End-Of-The-Week Bean Soup

End-Of-The-Week Bean Soup

Tuesday is my day.  That’s the day when I sort out my refrigerator vegetable bins. Often, that means a hearty and ever-changing soup for me. That’s good news. I love soup, particularly during these early Autumn days with just the beginning of a chill in…

Crystalline Prose and Minestrone

Crystalline Prose and Minestrone

She was so gifted a writer that W.H. Auden said of her: “I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose.” She was so elegantly beautiful that the Dadaist artist Man Ray begged to photograph her, fascinated as he was…

Potato Cheddar Soup–How Do I Love Thee?

Potato Cheddar Soup–How Do I Love Thee?

Ahhh, potatoes!  Let me count the ways.   Today’s potato is the upmarket Yukon Gold.     The history of these potatoes is interesting. Yukon Gold potatoes have only been available commercially since 1980. Developed at Canada’s University of Guelph by legendary potato breeder Gary…

Oldies But Goodies: Provincial Greens Soup

Oldies But Goodies: Provincial Greens Soup

  Every month, Blue Cayenne features one post from our archive of more than 350 recipes. Here is a great soup recipe for a healthy winter soup. Enjoy! Want to dive deeper into our recipe archive?  Just click one of the categories at the top…