One thing that writing this blog has shown me over the last few months is that I absolutely love soup. And when you can apply that love to creating something new, sometimes you just outdo yourself. This Creamy White Tortellini Soup is quick, easy, and deliciously creamy. Not to mention packed with delicious seared chicken sausage, fresh escarole, and topped with chopped green onions. Prepare for ...
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Creamy Tortellini Soup with Italian Sausage and Spinach
Lots of soup recipes to go around. This Creamy Tortellini Soup with Italian Sausage and Spinach is definitely one of my favorites. Made this for lunch on a Sunday afternoon recently for Jaime and I. Did the kids have any? Nope, of course not. The kids have very simple tastes, so they won't be adventurous when it comes to food. As my dad would say: "They don't know what they are missing." This ...
Lentil Soup with Pancetta
Ahh, lentil soup with pancetta. This soup is a complete convenient meal in a bowl. You will receive a good return on investment of your time spent shopping, prepping, and cooking, with a delicious final product at the end. My wife and kids are not big lentils fans, but my wife enjoyed this soup very much. I grew up loving my mom's lentils and pasta, so I am always a big fan and am not too picky. ...
Minestrone Soup Recipe
This Italian Minestrone Soup recipe will put you on a nice tour of the produce section of your grocery store. Minestrone is typically loaded with vegetables. In Italy, the vegetables available to the cook were what went into the soup. There are 8 vegetables in this Minestrone recipe. They are pretty easy to find. This soup is well worth the time spent shopping and prepping. The trick with this ...
Italian Soup With Orecchiette Pasta, Spinach and Pancetta
Lately I am on a bit of a roll with Italian soup recipes. And why not? Soups provide a lot of bang for your buck. They can be so easy to imagine and cook up, the return on investment is high. I cooked up this Italian Soup With Orrechiette Pasta, Spinach and Pancetta the other night for dinner, and it was quite the hit. Admittedly, I am not the biggest tomato fan (unless it is a tomato sauce, yeah ...
Creamy Tomato Soup (without the cream)
We Italians sure do love our tomatoes. Obviously, we love them in our spaghetti sauce. But we can eat it just as well in our soups. Enter the tomato soup ... in this case Creamy Tomato Soup (without the cream). How in the world is tomato soup different from tomato sauce? Well, it is. You just thin it out by adding some vegetable broth. I decided to go with a creamy tomato soup version for this ...
Italian Wedding Soup
I will admit to a bit of confusion about Italian Wedding Soup myself. It's so obvious when you hear the name, it must be served at Italian weddings right? Nope, wrong. This soup has nothing to do with weddings. Marriages maybe, but not weddings. Okay, what the heck am I talking about? Italian Wedding Soup was another of these so-called peasant soup dishes, made with ingredients that were ...
Spicy Sausage and Bean Soup with Escarole
Ahh, the ole Spicy Sausage and Bean Soup with Escarole recipe was perfect on this chilly snowy Saturday. Last night and into this morning saw a minor snow storm (being from the North this was but a minor dusting) hitting our area. Knowing it was coming, last night I went to the grocery to get the ingredients for this rather simple Italian soup and enough food for a few days, just in case. Every ...