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.
Someone you know having a dental implant? This soup helps with the healing.
Butternut Squash Red Lentil Soup recipe lists onion, celery, carrots, butternut squash. garlic, curry powder, red lentils and optional coconut milk. Simmer about 20 minutes and blenderize. An even better supper soup when you are not having dental work for its ease of...
Quick Tortellini Zucchini Soup
Al Dente pasta is on my mind. Here's why...Just recently I heard an explanation for why Italians prefer cooking their pasta al dente. Of course, it preserves the pasta shape, allowing it to hold sauce better. Additionally, AL dente pasta has a lower glycemic index...
Turn Around Gazpacho —Traditionally, Gazpacho is a cold Spanish soup made from raw or blended vegetables.
Foodie Pat's Turn Around Gazpacho has a watermelon puree base, showing a deep red color and a sweeter taste than traditional Gazpacho. Still requires what we call in the business as "chop, peel and slice", but once presented as a main lunch course or appetizer for...
A traditional method in Mexico for tomato soup with pasta
Tomato Soup with Ditalini and Chickpeas Based on a method used by cooks in Mexico, this tomato soup is made from fresh tomatoes processed with garlic and onion and then added to toasted small pasta, followed by vegetable or chicken broth and canned chickpeas. Simple...
Multitasker Watermelon Lime ‘Soup’
Three, yes only 3 ingredients—Watermelon Lime Soup is a versatile recipe for spring and summer entertaining with so many uses,I call it Multitasker Watermelon Lime Soup. Multitasker Watermelon Lime Soup Not only is this a versatile recipe that can double as an...
Do You Believe That A Soup Could Be This Easy, This Delicious, This Colorful and This Healthy? It’s Gazpacho, the Spanish Origin Cold Soup
Check out the ingredients in the photo (on left) .Chop the tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, shallot/onion. (on right) Then open up the bowl of your food processor and whirl away. Add the seasonings and process until you see the siz of the crunchy bits you prefer. (last...
Time for a Seafood supper soup?—Try Northwest Salmon Chowder
Northwest Salmon Chowder Northwest Salmon Chowder is a quick-cook creamy soup with lots of veggies.Cutting the veggies in a small dice and shredding the carrots cuts down on the cooking time. And of course, salmon finishes quickly also. Dried basil or thyme is a...
Cabbage Crush-NYTimes Named Cabbage the Vegetable of the Year
Soup #6In keeping with trendy 2026 ingredients, I made and enjoyed Parmesan Cabbage Soup. Parmesan Cabbage Soup Most years, as we approach St. Patrick’s Day, grocery stores offer cabbage at great prices. This nourishing soup, thickened with rice and made substantial...
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...