Tag: vegetables

Almost Instant Tomato Soup

Almost Instant Tomato Soup

Do you miss the convenience of canned tomato soup, even as you want better control of what you eat? Try this quick, easy, almost instant tomato soup!   Tomato soup…  It was up there, in my childhood, with chicken noodle soup as something that surely 

Root Vegetables in a Slow Cooker

Root Vegetables in a Slow Cooker

  A Hot Thing in the last few years has been Roast Vegetables. Put all sorts of root vegetables – and sometimes sturdy green vegetables, too – in a pan and  put it in the oven…  The cooking concentrates the flavor, and you taste the 

Celery Root

Celery Root

That’s an unprepossessing lump, isn’t it? All right – those of you in Europe are probably looking at this blankly, wondering why I bother to write about something so simple, and why I wouldn’t know at a glance how good this can taste. I gather 

Red Cabbage Simmered with Pork

Red Cabbage Simmered with Pork

Oh, my, that looks good enough to eat! we say of a pretty ornament. That looks so good I can taste it!

Cabbage with Bacon and Caraway

Cabbage with Bacon and Caraway

We’re all winding down a bit from Thanksgiving. We’ve done the Feast. It was rich and meaty, there was gravy and whipped cream, we had another day or two of leftovers (with gravy and cream) and – it’s time for something simpler and less rich.