I loved winter as a kid, and now that I have a kid I love winter again, but during the in-between years winter and I were not friends. Now, I love playing with my daughter in the snow and the hours spent on a toboggan, and even how she "helps" me shovel the driveway. Even more than that, though, I love the comfort food that comes with winter: hearty soups and stews that really warm you up inside. The smell of a pot of stew on the stove or in my slow cooker, especially if it's my all-time …
Easy and Delicious Roasted Tomato Soup
While my family may be a little picky about what sort of fruit and vegetables they'll eat, tomatoes are at the very top of the list. Eaten by the handful, in sandwiches or on pizza, I can't keep enough of them in the house. Occasionally the sweeter, smaller varieties go on special at the store and when they do, I grab a few packs and turn them into everything from sauces to soups, ready to go at a moment's notice. This Roasted Tomato soup is full of flavour, and yet really easy to make. Your …
How to Have Delicious Turkey Soup for Free (a Mooching-Off Relatives Tale)
I love soup. Soupy, soup soup. And when turkey time of year rolls around, I get a little flutter of glee because I know that I’m going to score me some delicious turkey soup. And it will cost nada. You have to make it, but who cares? SOUP FOR YOU. Pay attention to me, grasshopper, and I will teach you the way of the free-soup ninja. Know the Turkey Soup Situation If you’re like most people in the world, you’ll be invited to a “traditional” Thanksgiving meal where your …
Potato Leek Soup
There is a half a pound of butter in this Potato Leek Soup. Before you run screeching from the room shouting "Those Pleasantville people have lost their minds!", just chill, ok? This soup is like dessert; it's a treat. It's what I deem an everything-in-moderation recipe. Pull yourself together, people, because there's also cream, bacon and cheddar in here, too. Mwahahahahahaha. Before I continue, I should mention that if you are one of those people who wants to de-fatify all the things, …
Roast Carrot Soup with Ginger and Orange
Sometimes I get weird heart palpitations. I hate them. They scare me. They’re called premature ventricular contractions or "PVCs" and they’re fairly benign as far as cardiac events go, but I don’t know too much about them because I stopped listening to the doctor after he said “Your heart” and “isn’t beating properly” in the same sentence. I can’t do an internet search about them because I have learned to avoid Dr.Google like infectious mononucleosis. This realization came only after I …
