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Low-Fat Recipes: Homemade Vegetable Soup
Low-Fat Recipes: Homemade Vegetable Soup
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4.56 / 5 Stars | 45 Reviews
by over easy
“A mixture of chicken broth and vegetable stock serves as the base for a variety of vegetables and some great Northern beans for a hearty soup.”
What’s Cooking This Weekend? — Weekend of August 16-17, 2014
Happy weekend everyone! I hope you’ve enjoyed our week of all tomatoes, all the time. I’m certainly ready for a Southern tomato sandwich or maybe a scoop of tomato cobbler. Tell us what you’re doing with tomatoes this weekend — or anything else you’re cooking. Happy cooking, and check out these posts — my favorites this week! (P.S. The Kitchn Cure started! Have you signed up yet?)
- This tour of Lodge’s cast iron cookware factory was pretty amazing, I thought.
- Have you ever eaten a Purple Bumblebee?
- 18 ways to use red in the kitchen, large and small.
- The best music for cleaning the kitchen.
- How to let people know you’re in a serious relationship.
- And in case you’re working on The Kitchn Cure this weekend, here’s the first week of assignments, all in one place.
How Do I Harvest Fennel? — Good Questions
Q: I planted some fennel this spring and I’m not sure when I should harvest it. Are there multiple bulbs or is it just one big bulb?
Pull Up a Chair to the Chef’s Table — New Cookbook
The angle: Recipes for the best staff meals from the best restaurants around the world, from Chez Panisse to Noma.
Recipes for right now: Emmer Wheat Foccacia, Carolina BBQ Pork, Summer Vegetable Soup with Pesto, Flour Dumplings with Cucumbers and Cream, Spaghetti with Mussels, Chocolate Ripple Cake
Who would enjoy this book? Restaurant-loving foodies, photography buffs with a love of food.
Tomato Cobbler with Cornmeal-Cheddar Biscuits, Tomato Soup Cupcakes, No-Cook Tomato Sauce, & Homemade V8 Juice — New Recipes from The Kitchn
I hope you’re in the mood for tomatoes, but we have lots (and lots) of recipes this week that highlight this rockstar ingredient. Looking for something you pull together on an average weeknight? Try the pan-seared chicken thighs with blistered tomatoes, the tomato cobbler with cornmeal-cheddar biscuits, or the easy no-cook tomato sauce over pasta. Looking to drink your tomatoes in the near future? We’ve got homemade V8 juice, a tomato water Bloody Mary, and a 2-ingredient bloody beer.
These Chocolate Legos Look Good Enough to Eat — Food News
An artist in Japan, Akihiro Mizuuchi, created candy molds that replicate the popular building blocks. While this is by no means the first attempt at creating chocolate Lego blocks, this is the most successful we’ve seen.
And the best news? You can eat them!
Generic vs. Name Brand: 25 Foods to Buy Cheap — Grocery Shopping Tips
There’s no real science behind knowing when to buy generic or store-brand foods, and when to stick to your favorite (and probably more expensive) name brand. But we all know that you’ll do your grocery bill a serious favor when you shun labels. Think of it this way: name brand foods are subsidizing their own marketing, so you’re often paying for more than what will end up on your plate.
Over the years and with countless taste tests, I’ve compiled my own list of when to buy brand and when to buy the item at the bottom of the shelf with the lowest price tag.
Lynne Rossetto Kasper Doesn’t Peel or Seed Her Tomatoes (And Neither Should You)
When Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of public radio show The Splendid Table, gives advice, I listen. This goes double if the owner of that mellifluous voice is standing right next to you, doling out knowledge with so much enthusiasm you’d be daft not to start taking notes.
This past week, I attended a farm-to-table event hosted by Muir Glen Organics with Lynne and a handful of other food writers and tomato lovers from around the country. Amidst the tastings, the harvest tours, and all the other activities, Lynne dropped this little bombshell of tomato advice that I felt needed to be shared immediately: guys, we don’t always have to peel and seed our tomatoes.