Last Christmas, my mother-in-law put a pot of soup on the stove while we were on the road coming to visit. A wicked snowstorm had just hit central Illinois, and she wasn’t entirely sure what time of day we’d finally materialize on her doorstep. She’d clipped a soup recipe from a magazine recently and decided it would simmer away nicely until we arrived ready to eat that day.
To view text-only version of this recipe and complete ingredients listing, click here. Nothing’s better than coming in out of the snow to a piping hot bowl of soup, but what happens when you don’t have hours to let the kettle simmer before dinner? This soup recipe can be thrown together and cooked in under thirty minutes, and it’s got all the hearty flavor of something that’s been bubbling for hours. If you can’t find frozen or refrigerated cheese tortellini [ Read More ]
Gracie’s hippie sister here, using a cold day as an excuse to make one of the warmest of winter dishes. When I lived in the St. Louis area, my office was just a few blocks from a St. Louis Bread Company restaurant. One of my favorite lunchtime treats was to go to the Bread Company (known outside the St. Louis area as Panera) and have some of their famous onion soup in a bread bowl. The Panera/SLBC version involved an [ Read More ]
Grace’s sister here, checking in with a spur-of-the-moment recipe that turned out better than I expected. The other day, I had a craving for chicken pot pie — or, more accurately, chicken pot pie filling. I wasn’t particularly interested in the crust. I just wanted the stew inside. A bag of frozen vegetables and a couple of chicken breasts later, I had something lovely simmering in my Crock-Pot.
This is recipe #99, making the countdown to RKP’s 100th Recipe Celebration with Jana Kolpen at (1)! For a printable version of this recipe and complete ingredients listing, click here. Easy as pie! I mean, soup! With Spring just around the corner, I realized this week that there were many more soup recipes I’d been meaning to try my hand at making this winter, and time is running out! Today’s recipe, Easy Chicken Gumbo, is a great example of how little [ Read More ]
For a printable version of this recipe and complete ingredients listing, click here. This is a super “Get Out of Jail Free Card” kind of meal in the winter months when you know you’ll come home freezing cold and worn to a frazzle. Such was the case last Thursday, and it was wonderful to walk in the door with the aroma of beef stew waiting to greet the family. This is a pretty straightforward recipe, without any confusion or complexity, really. [ Read More ]
For a printable version of this recipe and complete ingredients listing, click here. So…I’m Irish. And while I didn’t discover corned beef and cabbage until I was an adult, I’ve eaten it enough times in the last ten years to make up for all of the days prior. The best thing about corned beef and cabbage is that I’m not quite sure how you’d screw it up. It’s so easy and so good! Begin with a big (3-4 lb.) corned [ Read More ]
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