Category: Soup

  • Pasta e Fagioli (Pasta And Bean Soup)

    Pasta e Fagioli (Pasta And Bean Soup)

    The Ultimate Italian Comfort Food When it’s cold and damp outside, I love to have a hearty bowl of Pasta e Fagioli (pasta and dried bean soup).  There are many ways to make it in Italy.  It’s one of those recipes that everyone makes slightly differently and are sure that their way is the right…

  • Salmorejo (Cold Tomato And Bread Soup)

    Salmorejo (Cold Tomato And Bread Soup)

        Why you should make Spanish salmorejo soup Here we are on Part III of Tapas Month on Italian Kiwi!  I hope you’ve been enjoying the change of pace so far. If you want to have a look at the tapas up until now, you can feast on battered tiny fish and roasted surprise peppers. This…

  • Root Vegetable and Kale Soup

    Root Vegetable and Kale Soup

        The joys of scraping ice, cycling in the snow, and kale It’s getting a teensy bit colder….not as cold as it should be at this time of the year, but cold enough to start making soup every now and then.  I feel cheated: I’ve only had to scrape ice off my car window…

  • Spelt and Chickpea Soup

    Spelt and Chickpea Soup

        When the cold weather hits, it’s time for soup I think we’ve been picked up by Dorothy’s tornado and transported somewhere not half as interesting as Oz. We live in a place where it hardly ever rains, until a couple of weeks ago.  It started and pretty much hasn’t stopped since.  My husband…

  • Tortellini in Broth

    Tortellini in Broth

        Go to Bologna to eat, and eat, and eat So….we were hanging out in Bologna for a few days just after Christmas, as you do, and there we ate and ate and ate, as you do.  I have no idea how the people who live there aren’t as big as houses.  The food…

  • Chicken Broth with Pasta (Minestrina)

    Chicken Broth with Pasta (Minestrina)

        The joys of sick kids Well, I’ve been out-of-order for a couple of weeks, thanks to my eldest son having flu that turned into pneumonia.  All of you out there who haven’t had a flu jab yet this year (or the flu) , I really recommend you to go and get one.  This…