‘soup’

This delicata squash ravioli soup will make you love delicata squash! You can find my first love of delicata squash with this battle – baked vs. fried. Yep, it’s Official – I am a YouTuber!  Ha! I’ve been procrastinating for so long about doing videos because I wanted them to look good.  I’d watch tutorials on YouTube, would get inspired, and then not do anything. ...

This butternut squash soup is great for your weekly meal prep! My Mom gave me three butternut squashes probably three weeks ago.  They rolled around the back of my car for almost that whole time, until I cleaned out my car and found them – thanks Mom!  Butternut squash is a hearty vegetable! Roasting this butternut squash is my favorite way to use it.  That,...

I love soup.  Like all kinds of soup.  I do consider soup to be a meal – especially this Tuscan White Bean Soup – its got beans, its thickened with butternut squash and potatoes, and it even has sun dried tomato chicken sausage meatballs – winning! This is my take on Ribollita – which is a white bean soup that’s traditionally thickened with bread –...

I am confident I never even tried butternut squash before I started blogging.  Back in the day, there was something called “BSI” which stood for Blogger Secret Ingredient.  The “host” was new each week, but they would pick an ingredient, and you had to make a dish, and that person who hosted picked a winner of all the recipes submitted, then would pick another host. ...

I have to give a shout out to Jacob (now my son-in-law!) on his 26th birthday!  I’ve loved having you and Hannah as roommates these last three years – looking forward to our dinner out tonight! I did a whole meal plan this week and I have set myself up for success.  I don’t think I could ever get sick of avocado/egg toast – I...

At long last I am finally posting Jacob’s Chicken Lime Soup – or what we call affectionately call it – Jacob’s Zesty Soup. Jacob is a cook much like Tony was – he just throw ingredients together, tastes as he goes and adjusts accordingly.  In order to get an actual recipe, Hannah wrote down what Jacob did, when he did it, so while there are...

I had a loss last week!  -.6, but I’ll take it.  Um, maybe there was some leftover wine from the celebration memorial for Jacob’s grandma, and maybe I had wine a couple nights last week.   I am totally fine with it – while the scale is moving slower, today I am wearing a pair of pants that Hannah gave me for Christmas that I couldn’t...

This weeknight lasagna soup is perfect for a quick dinner. Didn’t 2017 go by so fast?!  I can’t tell you how many times I typed a letter yesterday and put 2017 – it’s going to take a while before I wrap my head around 2018.  In 2018 my step-son will have been out of high school for TEN YEARS already.  I met him when he...

I know I am going to get called out on my soup not being a true “ramen” but it has a spicy broth, has noodles, so I am going to call it quick pork ramen!  But first, I have to tell you guys I am working for The Chopping Block on Saturday, December 9!  It’s the One of a Kind Show at the Merchandise Mart...

Tony used to make fun of me the way I “read” a cookbook like a great piece of fiction.  It’s true though.  I usually page through it from start to finish, with my little post-it notes flagging the recipes I’d like to try first. Oprah actually starts out the cookbook writing about her ups and downs over the years regarding her weight.   Nothing I hadn’t...