Apartment Therapy Tagged: soup

Quick Tip: Stir Some Greens into Your Soup

We've told you several times about our favorite pasta template with meat and greens. It's so easy to stir in some arugula or spinach and watch it wilt and soften from the heat of the pasta. Well, la...

Quick Tip for Winter Soups: Save the Pasta for Last

Mushy, overcooked pasta that disintegrates on contact is the one pitfall of cool weather classics like minestrone and chicken noodle soup. Luckily, there's a simple solution: add the noodles at the ve...

Good Question: Looking for a Beer Cheese Soup Recipe

Here's one for all of you from Wisconsin and the upper Midwest: Caitlin is looking for a good beer cheese soup recipe. She says: I am having a really hard time finding a good recipe for Beer Cheese ...

Good Question: When Is It Too Hot For Soup?

Here's a question from reader Bruce. He asks: I'm inviting some folks over for dinner on Sunday and was thinking about making tortilla soup. The forecast is a high in the mid-70s, probably upper 60...

Easy Garnishes for Simple Soups

If you've got a hearty, chunky, colorful soup, it's usually good to go on its own (maybe a sprinkle of cheese on some chili). But a simple, puréed soup can look a little plain—and a quick gar...

Recipe Review: Indian Spiced Carrot Soup with Ginger

We had a bunch of carrots to use this week and were craving something Indian-inspired. It being Escapes Month and all, this soup from Bon Appétit sounded like the perfect recipe to celebrate fa...

Recipe Review: Arugula Vichyssoise from Epicurious

We love the cool creaminess of traditional potato-leek vichyssoise, especially on humid summer days like we've been getting. So when Elizabeth mentioned an Epicurious recipe for arugula vichyssoise i...

What Foods Can You Take To Someone Who Is Bedridden?

A friend of ours was in an accident recently and broke her leg, requiring surgery. She's unable to walk for the next few months, and a group of us are banding together to prepare foods that she can s...

Spring Soups for Dreary Weather

It's rainy and cool outside in New York City this morning. It feels like an oatmeal-for-breakfast, soup-for-lunch sort of day... ...

Recipe Review: Spring Spinach and Herb Soup

We've been searching for recipes that feel light and springlike without relying on out of season vegetables. This vegetarian soup seemed easy and simple; the perfect first course for a spring supper....

April Fools Day Recipe: Is This Really a Bowl of Cereal?

Our favorite April Fools Day food tricks are more nice than naughty - the classic idea of serving foods that look like other foods. You've probably seen the meatloaf "iced" with mashed potatoes to loo...

Poll: Do You Own a Soup Tureen?

We space and budget challenged cooks can't own every new gadget and every stunning serving piece. Instead, we have to challenge ourselves to cook beautifully with the basics. A couple of times this...

Weeknight Meal Tip: Frozen Homemade Stock Portions

One thing that helps us make delicious, healthy meals on the fly is a freezer full of portioned homemade stock of all kinds - vegetable, crab, chicken, beef, etc....

Spring Eating: Split Pea Soup

Photo by Flickr member frangitOn the night before St. Patrick's we had a perfect cup of split pea soup. It was green and slightly lumpy, creamy with half smashed peas, and wonderfully redolent of smok...

Hospitality: What Meals Do You Take to Friends?

Cooking a meal for someone else is a generous expression of love, we think. But when that meal needs to be schlepped across town to a new mom or sick friend — and possibly sit in their fridge for ...

Good Question: What Are Your Best Comfort Foods?

Did Valentine's Day get you down? Was it perhaps a day for comfort food instead of a romantic menu? Here's a question for you, from reader Ci: I just went through two romantic break ups last year an...

Weekend Eating: Back to Whole Grains & Vegetables We Go

OK - that's it. Valentine's Day is over, along with Baking Week, Chocolate Week and every other excuse to bake cookies or eat sugar for breakfast. We're cooking healthy from now on - or at least til...

Recipe: New England Fish Chowder

It's no secret that New Englanders have a particular reverence for chowders of all kinds, and on dreary winter days like those we've been getting, there's nothing we crave more. And with good reason...

Testing for Mercury and Double-Dipping: NY Times Dining Section

From the New York Times' Dining Section... • Taking Worry Off the Plate: The Times follows up last week's article on mercury in tuna with not one but two pieces on choosing healthy seafood. S...

Cook This: Miso Soup with Sweet Potato Dumplings

Miso soup is a cold-weather favorite, and generally its simplicity stands on its own. This Miso Soup With Sweet Potato Dumplings has a lot more going on than traditional miso soup, but we think it l...

Flickr Find: Wild Rice Soup

Photo by Flickr user Ruthieki January is National Soup Month, and this bowl of wild rice soup looks like a great way to celebrate. The photographer and cook says that it's based on a legendary wild...

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