SOUPS 52 FOR 2026
At 80, I cook less, eat less and savor recipes with limited healthy tasty ingredients. Soup fits the bill for every week and every season of the year.
Forget Ready Made Tomato Soup! Make This One Instead! Serve with Crunchy Grilled Cheese.
Many ready made tomato soups contain excess sodium. My Trailblazing Creamy Tomato Soup is made with left-over spaghetti sauce and powerful protein-full tofu. The tofu taste is overpowered by the wonderful flavors of the spaghetti sauce. And when blenderized, provides...
Say Minestrone (mi · nuh · strow · nee)? Just Italian Vegetable Soup and Comfort for those Cold Winter Days
Winter MinestroneBasically, Minestrone is an Italian vegetable soup, sometimes with a little meat, mostly with beans, a variety of veggies and broth. When cabbage season happens (usually around St. Pat’s Day), this recipe makes a huge pot which we eat for dinner the...
Got Flu? Try Italian Penicillin Soup
Italian Penicillin Soup Just what the doctor ordered to help you feel better— chicken soup with tiny veggies and small pastina pasta. The Parmigiano-Reggiano rind* is actually aged parmesan cheese that melts into the broth to add great flavor. Any leftover rotisserie...
Remembering a friend with her Soup recipe
MJ’s Sausage Cabbage Soup MJ was a retired nurse, a delightful conversationalist, a green thumb gardener and enthusiastic cook. She shared this soup recipe with the Cookbook Club at the Tarpon Springs Library that she was given by the owner of Sue’s Restaurant, near...
No-Cream Celery Bisque
Sounds fancy but actually very surprising. The French use the word Bisque to indicate a pureed creamy soup—usually with cream. I have combined my love of pureed soups with a lower calorie version. In this day and age of increased grocery prices, celery is a good...