Category Archives: soup

Chilled Tomatillo and Cucumber Soup

Chilled Tomatillo and Cucumber Soup

We have a bunch of different veggies in the fridge and sometimes the challenge is remembering everything so it gets used up before it spoils. When I made this, I had tomatillos, poblanos, cilantro, cucumbers and avocados to use up. I couldn’t decide on a Mexican dish to make until I came across this one that sounded good to us both.

I must say this: it is extremely green. And cooking cucumbers is odd – I’m used…

Posted in mexican, one-dish, recipes, soup, untranslated, vegetable, vegetarian | 1 Comment

Creamy Egg & Lemon Soup with Meatballs

In honor of feeling generally bad all day and wishing for a good soup I didn’t have to cook or fight with the microwave to defrost, I’ll share with you a recipe I made last week. It’s a take on a classic Greek avgolemono soup with tiny, fluffy meatballs that soak up the deliciousness and explode on your tongue like concentrated stars.

The original called for lamb and I agree – ground lamb here would be divine. But it’s expensive and hard to get in my town unless I get lucky with the sales, so I used some leftover ground pork which turned out to be delicious. Often avgolemono soups are not very good reheated the next day but this one was pretty good albeit without the wonderful mouthfeel of the original.

Posted in greek, ground meat, pork, recipes, rice, soup, untranslated | 1 Comment

Vegetable Bouillon

Vegetable Bouillon

I’ve made a mean veggie stock in the past but the problem with it is that we use it up so fast, I’d have to make stock every Sunday just to keep up.

This is a great, simple and very flexible bouillon. It tastes wonderful. We used it last night in this creamy egg-lemon soup along with some chicken broth and I swear, it smelled just like the best chicken noodle soup you’ve ever tasted.

Posted in one-dish, recipes, soup, untranslated, vegan, vegetable, vegetarian | 2 Comments

Baked Potato Soup

Baked Potato Soup

It doesn’t look like much, does it? However, it’s like having a loaded baked potato in a soup and quite satisfying. We had about 15 pounds of potatoes to use up because it was such a fantastic sale so for the past two weeks, I’ve been using potatoes instead of rice at meals!

But however you get your spuds, this is a good soup to consider if you have a few extra laying around. Spring’s here and soon it’ll be too hot to have these kinds of soups, so make it before the weather warms up too much!

Posted in american, recipes, soup, untranslated | Leave a comment

Ukrainian Kapusniak (Fresh Cabbage Soup)

Ukrainian Kapusniak (Fresh Cabbage Soup)

Naturally, it was a night to have soup. We had acquired a bunch of green cabbage on sale at the local grocery but it needed to be used fairly quickly so it didn’t go bad. I wanted something easy to make, filling and satisfying, then remembered this recipe I’d found when researching a question for someone. It was perfect for a cold, snowy night.

Posted in chicken, recipes, soup, ukrainian, untranslated | Leave a comment