Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of my weekends in our hometown of Ely. When Sunday afternoon rolls around, I find it harder and harder to leave so I usually stall by parking myself on a bar stool at my favorite establishment, The Boathouse Brewpub & Restaurant. Since I eventually have to drive 4 hours…
Broccoli Cheese (& Carrot) Soup
Growing up our mom used to make steamed broccoli and carrots that she would top with American cheese and cover it until it melted. As Tory mentioned in her Roasted Broccoli post, this is the only way she used to like broccoli. It also happened to be one of my favorite vegetables; I think the…
Fresh from the Garden Tomato Soup
I grew tomatoes in containers on my deck for the first time this summer, and boy was I surprised at how many I got. I’ve been trying to come up with different uses for all of them and figured that it wouldn’t be right if I didn’t include fresh tomato soup in my experiments. I…
Chicken Wild Rice Soup
It was a typical August weekend in Minnesota. The weather was in the mid-eighties, it was sunny, and humid – like stepping out the door felt like stepping into a sauna- humid. And the husband was gone. So what did I decide to do? I made soup. Yes, you heard me right and before you…
Buffalo Chicken Soup
Tory and I got together a while ago for one of our first blogging nights. The blog just an idea then and we wanted to start putting together some recipes and taking pictures so we had content for our first posts. We decided that we’d make soup – and we wouldn’t just make one kind…
