Golden Red Lentil Soup

Nothing tastes better on a cold day than a bowl of steamy hot soup, like this Golden Red Lentil Soup!  It keeps your insides warm and your taste buds happy.  Pair the soup with crusty bread and all I can...

Roasted Carrot Soup

  Have you ever been unloading your groceries after going to a big box store and ever wondered…why did I just purchase 5 pounds of carrots?   Yes, this just happened. Carrot recipes here I come.  First up! Roasted Carrot...

Creamy Corn Chowder

This past week was the best of both worlds for me.  Fresh spring-time sweet corn and 2 days of rain. I’ve been wanting to make corn chowder for sometime now, but the weather has been in the 80’s lately and...

Creamy Potato Soup

There is nothing better on a chilly winter’s day than eating a big bowl of creamy potato soup in front of a roaring fire! Living in sunny Southern California, I’m not use to so many over cast colder than average winter...

Black Bean Soup

One of my favorite things to eat for lunch or dinner on a cold day is black bean soup! I guess it all goes back to when I was working in Newport Beach, California. There was this little restaurant tucked...

Split Pea Soup

Let’s face it, Pea Soup is not the easiest soup to make look pretty in a picture.  The color is not the most appetizing.  But, if we are talking taste, this Split Pea Soup is divine! Maybe, my love of split...

Italian Sausage and Orzo Soup

Nothing is better on bitter cold winter evening than a bowl of warm Italian Sausage and Orzo Soup, while sitting by the fire. As much as I don’t like the cold, I love chilly evenings.  Is that weird?  I guess...

Lentil Soup

Isn’t it funny how there are foods we had as kids we hated, and now as adults, love.  Lentil Soup is one of those meals for me.  I remember how disappointed I was when I would come home from school,...

Tomato Basil Bisque

My daughter Nina loves Tomato Basil Bisque.  During Fall and Winter she requests it often {about once a week}.  I usually purchase it at an upscale grocery store, in their deli department where they have delicious prepared foods.  Their tomato...