Take a trip with your skillet to your stovetop for some global, Thai-inspired soup. The only ingredients requiring prep are the onions and garlic - some fast chopping. Other than that, this savory fruit soup - that's right, pumpkin is a fruit - needs only dumping from cans, jars and containers. My kind of soup-making. But how's this for an added perk? Filled with immune-boosting ingredients to keep you healthy and hopefully keep colds and flu at bay. Lentils offer lean protein for muscle ...
Beef Barley Vegetable Soup
A big bowl of immune-boosting nutrients to help fight flu, but keep you overall healthy, too. That's what my Beef Barley Vegetable Soup is. Before I blather on with all the health benefits, let me say this is EASY to make. And it makes a BIG BATCH - perfect for big eaters or big families. About 18-20 cups, so that would be 9 to 10 servings of 2 cups each. And it'll last a couple days (leftovers = no cooking!). Now, those health-boosting benefits: lean beef (zinc and protein for muscle ...
Spicy Tomato Red Pepper Soup
Three cheers for tomato soup that's fast, easy and filled with all the right nutrients to keep you healthy and happy. Except for chopping the onion and garlic, you simply open and dump canned and jarred ingredients. Technically, you could use already chopped fresh or frozen onion and ready-to-use chopped garlic to save even more time. Tomatoes, red pepper, garlic and onions give you tremendous immune-boosting, disease-fighting nutrients. Good for healthy blood pressure and heart health, ...
Cool Down with No-Cook Summer Soups
Easy and refreshing, this no-cook soup is like eating an entire garden of goodness! One bowl-full is filled with disease-fighting and immunity-boosting phytonutrients along with valuable vitamins and minerals. Plus, it provides much-needed fluid during these hot summer days.Garden-in-a-Bowl Goodness highlights:*Watermelon – a lycopene leader, that’s the phytonutrients that may help reduce risk of heart disease and some cancers, including prostate cancer.*Garlic – contain allyl sulfides which may ...
Garden in a Bowl
What’s the next best thing to standing in a huge vegetable garden, picking ripe red tomatoes and green bell peppers and eating them right on the spot? Gazpacho (gahz-PAH-choh), the ubiquitous summer soup, that’s what. I realize it takes nearly an hour to prepare this no-cook cold soup; there’s a lot of slicing, chopping and dicing going on. But after just one bite – and knowing you’ll have a batch big enough to last several days - you’ll agree it was worth every second. All 3600 of them to be ...
Comfort Food Balance: Soup & Biscuits
Aside from being incredibly nutrient-rich, lentil soup is very low fat. So it’s the perfect time to enjoy biscuits, which are typically higher in fat. Lentil soup is so easy to make and unlike other legumes, dry lentils don’t need soaking beforehand. A basic lentil soup recipe (lentils, onions, carrots, celery, diced tomatoes) is done in about 50 minutes. While it simmers, you can whip up a batch of delectable Cheddar Chipotle Biscuits! Many different ingredients complement a basic lentil ...