Oct

16

Fresh Tomato Soup and Corn Chowder

Posted by Annie Mueller

October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Fall gets me thinking soupy thoughts, if you hadn’t noticed. I love pulling up to the table with a big bowl of something steaming hot, a thick slice of fresh, buttered bread, and a great book to browse while I sip away. When I’m serving soup for supper, I tend to do meatier, slow-cooked stews [...]

Oct

15

Thai Noodle Soup

Posted by Annie Mueller

October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment

 Soup is one of my favorite cold-weather foods. It’s warm, comforting, and filling. It’s forgiving: you can tweak amounts and substitute ingredients and still come out with something perfect. Try that with a bread recipe. 
The only drawback to soup is that many heartier soups are full of meat, cream, butter, and other fattening ingredients. Hey, [...]

Aug

28

I can’t stop eating the corn.

Posted by Annie Mueller

August 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

It’s peak corn season around these parts and honestly, it’s hard for me to stop myself from eating like, 3 ears a day. Because I totally could. I love that Butter and Sugar variety. It’s like candy–truly. This combined with my late-pregnancy “could eat around the clock” situation means that I’m in real danger [...]

Aug

18

An easy summer dinner

Posted by Annie Mueller

August 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

One of my favorite things on the grill is shrimp. I love shrimp anyway, really. I’m like Bubba from Forrest Gump. “Shrimp kabob, shrimp salad, shrimp creole. . . “ I like it all —and seafood in general.  But on the grill is really how shrimp is best, I think, so I recommend it as [...]

Aug

15

Pick your own

Posted by Annie Mueller

August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

At this time of year there are lots of options for getting out there and picking your own fruits.  I remember when I was a kid going raspberry picking was the coolest thing. There was something fun about searching around for the ripest, ready fruits and picking them as fast as I could. It was [...]

Aug

14

Too many cucumbers in the garden!

Posted by Annie Mueller

August 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment

So, maybe you’re a gardener and you’ve got a cucumber bounty on your hands. Many do this time of year. It’s nice to put them on salads or maybe make a salad out of them, but another fantastic use for cukes is a chilly soup. It’s so refreshing on a hot day to have [...]

Aug

13

Green Gazpacho!

Posted by Annie Mueller

August 13, 2007 | 1 Comment

I love love love gazpacho. Cold soup is not something everyone can enjoy. I’ve found that sometimes it freaks people out. . . like it’s somehow “wrong,” that it’s cold. Or maybe they think it should be called something else because soup is inherently a hot thing.  I’m not sure what the reason, but once [...]