Soups
Soup recipes
Christmas Eve Seafood 2010
We’ve always trimmed our tree on Christmas Eve. During our first overseas posting in the early 1980s, we started inviting single friends over to help us hang the decorations. Even though we’re settled down in Tucson now, we still invite…
Crouton’s Hamburger T Soup
I felt like making soup tonight. I had hamburger and a bottle of Mr. & Mrs. T’s Bloody Mary Mix. Thus the inspiration for this easy, homey, tasty soup:
Christmas Eve Seafood
We invited all our single friends over to help us decorate our tree on Christmas Eve. Of course one has to give in order to receive, so we lured them over with promises of food. Our traditional Christmas Eve feast…
Uncle Art’s Chili Beans con Carne
It’s cold and rainy, a perfect day to reattack Uncle Art’s Beans. This time I’m making them with chuck roast, so at the risk of offending chili purists (and Uncle Art’s family), I’m calling it Uncle Art’s Chili Beans con…
Cabbage & Hamburger Soup
Cabbage & hamburger soup? That sounds pretty, ah, pedestrian, doesn’t it? Friends, take my word for it, this is great soup, especially if you serve it with crusty bread. Easy to make, too. Notes When you add the cabbage it’ll really…
Ditalini’s Tortellini & Spinach Soup
Originally a Food Channel recipe, modified by Ditalini. Some nights we feel like something light, easy, and hearty . . . yeah, I can hear you saying “hearty doesn’t go with light & easy,” but trust me, in this case…
Crouton’s 15-Bean Soup
Notes I had a small piece of salt pork in the freezer, so I used it along with the ham hock, removing and discarding both at the same time. I’ve prepared this recipe many times with just the ham hock,…
Uncle Art’s Chili Beans (a Work in Progress)
Continuing with the saga of Uncle Art’s Beans: I cross-posted my last blog entry to Facebook, where various family members told me I probably didn’t have the real recipe after all. But this wouldn’t be much of a cooking blog…
Crouton’s Easy Navy Bean Soup
We took a spiral-cut ham to an Easter party and had a good amount left over. Monday I used some of it making scalloped potatoes; yesterday I used some more making navy bean soup. The soup turned out so well…
Crouton’s Pretty Easy Chicken Noodle Soup
I wanted soup for dinner, and enough of it that there will be leftovers. I had chicken, I had noodles. Something told me I should make chicken noodle soup.