Soup is best served cold on a hot day and this gazpacho-inspired recipe is a fine example of chilled summer soup at its best. Make this soup when local produce is readily available, this is the time to let seasonal fruits and vegetables shine. Roasting apricots, tomatoes, red onions, and a jalapeño pepper or two…
Category: Soup
Simple Slow Cooker Vegetarian Chili
This simple slow cooker recipe for vegetarian chili is reliable, comforting, and very adaptable. I realize it doesn’t follow any of the strict guidelines that a truly authentic chili would, but I think that’s what gives this recipe a sense of fun and spontaneity. I dreamed this version up while I was taking an early…
Creamy Parsnip Soup with Marinated Eggplant
There’s something to be said for soup after a 5 day period of eating nothing but extremely rich food, especially if its at the beginning of December and the cold weather practically makes it the required light food of choice. This parsnip soup is deceptively creamy, its texture suggests the use of heavy cream when…
Creamy Sweet Bell Pepper Soup
And just like that summer has become a distant memory, forever tucked into the backs of our minds throughout winter as a time full of golden light and perpetual warmth. The rain is back in Vancouver, very much needed but selfishly difficult to accept as routine again. The sunny days we have now seem muted…
Easy Chicken Noodle Soup
Depression is a sour and familiar thing. I have been on steady decline this past winter, practically running straight down a mountainside before I finally broke down a few weeks ago. Depression is, as I said, familiar to me. I have spent my whole life oscillating back and forth between the two extremes and every emotion between…