Soups and stews make for delicious lunches and dinners any time of the year and when you use the crockpot to cook them, the flavors seem to blend together perfectly. With just a few adjustments to cooking times and to the amount of liquids used, most recipes for soups and stew made on the stovetop [...]

A slow cooker or crock pot is a great way of making meals and soups whilst you get on with other things. It is a fantastic tool in the kitchen for the busy lifestyle that many people lead these days. There is often time in the day to prepare food, but standing over a hot [...]

Every hardworking woman has her own techniques when it comes to preparing soups and sour soups. When you want to make a soup or a sour soup, you have to take some aspects into consideration, these being the time you need to let it boil, the vessels you use, the intensity of the fire and, [...]

Soup is the ideal way to boost your vitamin levels and kick-start your immune system – particularly in the winter. And what could be more welcoming for dinner as the weather starts to turn colder, than a delicious bowl of homemade vegetarian soup.  If you are looking for something different, delicious and healthy, try one [...]

Most people have their schedules so full to the brim that they have to plan every last aspect of their day at least several weeks in advance. The busy lives which many of us live make it very difficult to plan for nutritional meals. Some people’s idea of a healthy meal is a fruit rollup. [...]

When I was growing up, most city kids went home for lunch because we had a long lunch break, school was close by and moms stayed home. The winters were long and cold, so having a hot bowl of soup and a sandwich was welcomed fare. There were several brands of canned soup available, each [...]

Summer is a time of abundant vegetables available locally grown at affordable prices. Through the hot summer and into fall farm stands dot America’s byways as local growers bring to the public an abundance of freshly grown vegetables, fruits and berries. People who control their weight with bariatric weight loss surgery (WLS) can benefit from [...]

Why try garlic soup? If you are looking for an interesting, tasty, and healthy soup, you may want to try making some this soup. Perhaps you have heard of putting garlic in stews and soups, but you may not be familiar with an actual soup that uses garlic as the main ingredient. More than likely, [...]

The most important factor when it comes to homemade soup is, of course, the flavor. The best homemade soup makes you want to close your eyes and savor every sip while you distinguish the different ingredients and let the combined flavors melt in your mouth. As important as a good flavor is, it is also [...]

Have you made a pot of lentil soup lately? It’s healthful cooking at its best: easy, hearty, tasty and loved by young and old. Lentils come in one-pound bags in the dry beans section of your supermarket. Usually you will find two kinds: ordinary greenish-brown lentils, and orange lentils which are actually just the ordinary [...]