Green Soup

Saint Patrick’s Day is over, but that’s no reason not to cook up this delicious and uber-nutritious “green soup.” This is not The Splendid Table’s recipe, but like Lynne’s, it does require an immersion blender to get the right consistency. Feel free to add more veggies to your liking! Miranda’s Green Soup from Pocket Pause [...]

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Dark Days Challenge WEEK 8: One Pot Meals

It’s the first of our Challenge in a Challenge weeks! This week and next we (mostly) learned about one-pot meals. Soups, stews, cassoulet, and casseroles! One pot meals may or may not be created in only one pot, but they seem to all be warm and comforting, perfect for this time of year. *** MNLocavore [...]

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Real Food Recipe: Making Nail Soup

Tuesdays will be our recipe day during the Real Food Challenge. Check back each week, there might be one recipe there might be three. *** When I was a little girl, one of my favorite stories was one called Nail Soup (also known as Stone Soup). It’s a traditional Swedish folk tale, here it is [...]

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Red Lentil and Cabbage Slow Cooker Soup

Sometimes its just nice to get everything done early in the day so you can go out and play in the garden without having to back in the house to check on things all the time. That is where my slow cooker comes in… Yesterday I made a batch of red lentil/cabbage soup that we [...]

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Mushroom Barley Soup

It is easy to incorporate whole grains in baked goods.  This month I have been trying to use them in more creative ways.  Here is a recipe I tried this week that my family just loved!  But what’s not to love about barley in soup? 1 Onion, chopped 4 stalks Celery, diced 1 Cup of [...]

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Lebanese Lentil with Greens Soup

This is what we had for dinner last night with fresh bread…it was delicious. In fact I also had it for breakfast too! Ingredients 1 Large Onion Chopped 4 Cloves Garlic minced 1 Tbsp Salt 1 Cup Lentils (I used a combo or red and brown) 6 Cups Water 1 Bunch Greens (I used Swiss [...]

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Vegan Chili with Corn and beans

Yes I make it vegan but you don’t have too…but you could! 1 Large sweet onion chopped (you could use regular but my family likes sweet onions) 5+ cloves of garlic minced (I usually do 8 or so, but we loooove garlic!) Enough olive oil to coat the bottom of a large stock pot that [...]

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Cream of Baked Potato Soup

  There were two things hubby requested when I decided to go vegan…he could not live without icecream and he begged that I please not quit making this soup!  There is still icecream in the freezer and I made this last night! I will admit right here and now that I do not like boiled [...]

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Chilled Pumpkin Pie Soup for the Holidays!

I haven’t posted a recipe in quite a while…not that we haven’t been eating or anything, we have done plenty of that! No, it is just that I have neglected to share…my sincerest apologies. To correct this grave error, I am going to share a recipe that I whipped up with some of our remaining [...]

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