Nov
11
When it comes to use pumpkin in recipes, so far everything I have done has been on the sweet side. So when I found the idea for pumpkin tortellini soup I went at it right away. The soup is made with a pumpkin filling that contains a few other ingredients, that is put inside a …
Nov
25
One great way to use your leftover turkey from Thanksgiving is in soups. It’s so easy to make up some soup and just throw some turkey in it. The first soup I made this year was turkey & rice. It involves cooking some rice in turkey or chicken stock, along with some carrots until finished, …
Oct
05
Looking for a dish to warm you up on a cold day? Try some beef & barley soup. You get the warmth of the broth, the nutrition of the barley, and the flavor of the beef. The dish can easily be placed in a slow cooker and left to cook while you work. Below you …
Sep
07
This is a recipe review, which means this is a recipe that I did not personally come up with, but that I tried out and am giving my opinion on how the recipe turned out. For legal reasons I cannot post these recipes, but I can tell you where you can get them yourself. I …
Apr
21
After Easter, I made some ham stock with my leftover ham bone. So when I had my stock, I had to do something with it. The first thing that came to mind was split pea soup. I decided to do something a little different with my split pea soup, I added potatoes. Yukon Gold potatoes …
Apr
10
I don’t like the overuse nowadays of the words “comfort food”. It seems like everyone wants to label their top 20 favorite foods as comfort foods. Well I think there is one true comfort food, and that is chicken noodle soup. American mothers have been using it for decades to give to their children when …
Apr
01
I was looking for something to serve my wife for dinner this week and I was thinking of making her cheesy potato soup, which I had not done in a while. But instead of relying on a previous recipe I decided to come up with something different. Which got me thinking, she likes broccoli & …
Feb
21
One of the things I cut out of my diet years ago was canned soup. Canned soup is full of sodium and flavor wise is usually one dimensional. My mom has been using cream of mushroom soup for years for a slow-cooked pork chop recipe. I decided I want to make my own cream of …
Dec
29
One of my favorite soups growing up was Campbell’s Bean with Bacon soup. So naturally when I began learning how to cook more things for myself, relying less on prepared food, this is one thing I wanted to replicate. It took a couple times to get it right but I believe this to be at …
Dec
15
Looking for a nice warm soup to enjoy on those cold winter nights. Give this corn chowder a try. Ingredients 1 russet potato (peeled & diced) 3 ears of corn salt & freshly ground pepper (to taste) 1/2 of a bell pepper (your choice of color) 1 tablespoon butter 1 teaspoon olive oil 1/2 medium …
Welcome to my blog! My name is Eric. I live in Saline, Michigan with my wife (Donna) and two daughters, Hannah (3 1/2) and Autumn (1). I started this blog in October 2009 to share my culinary experiences from making my own food from scratch to what I find at farmer's markets and grocery stores.
