Tag Archives: soup
A sandwich and soup. 4/2/22
Our son came over today to play tennis with John and afterwards we picked up banh mi from Lee’s Sandwiches which is a Vietnamese chain here in California. I love banh mi with its delicate crunchy roll and its pickled … Continue reading
Lunch on a winter day: Turn your salad into soup! 12/28/21
It is rainy and chilly here in Northern California for which we say, YAY! Our water woes seem like daily news reports and we have been asked to cut back on usage. So we are happy to have rain but … Continue reading
LFD – Dal soup with additional veg. 2/20/21
For Leftovers For Dinner I sautéed some mushrooms, cabbage, and kale stems and then added them to the split chickpeas and split pigeon peas stew. I added more broth to it to make it soupier. It seemed to be lacking … Continue reading
Lunch and Breakfast for Dinner. December 19-20, 2020
I am catching up from the weekend. We had a Zoom party to go to on Saturday and I ate some junk food and I lost enthusiasm for making something more remarkable for dinner. What I did was to combine … Continue reading
LFD: Everything soup. 12/5/20
Saturday’s LFD (Leftovers For Dinner) started with a base of the soup we had on Thursday. Somehow I forgot to post it. The kale, cabbage, and white bean soup with a little chopped up smoked turkey sausage was delicious. Here … Continue reading
LFD – Lunch For Dinner. 10/31/20
Sometimes Saturday’s LFD means Leftovers For Dinner and other times it’s Lunch For Dinner. Either way Saturday’s dinner means a casual meal. It is certainly a good way to relax after a busy cooking week. Luckily I was experimenting with … Continue reading
Odds and ends. 10/28/20
I did not stick exactly to my menu yesterday. I have a Zoom meeting on Tuesdays at 3:30 so by the time I am done sometimes I do not feel like going through the big dinner production. Certainly you can … Continue reading
Introducing Saturday’s LFD. 10/10/20
Saturday’s LFD (Lunch or Leftovers For Dinner) is the companion to Sunday’s BFD (Breakfast For Dinner.) For me, these two dinners are a wind down from a busy cooking week and the perfect solution for these pandemic times when you … Continue reading
Chickpeas with ditalini and greens (vegan). 9/25/20
This stew/soup is a lot like the vegan vegetable soup I had for dinner a few days ago. Instead of kale I used a pre-washed combo of spinach and arugula and rather than potatoes the starch in this dish was … Continue reading
Vegan vegetable soup with chickpeas. 9/23/20
Tonight we were supposed to have been preparing pasta puttanesca but yesterday at Costco John fell in love with some lamb chops. He has been so understanding of my not wanting to eat red meat that how could I say … Continue reading
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