Soup Recipes

I was standing in line at the hardware store, of all places, holding a new garden hose and trying to remember if I needed more … Read more

I was standing in the produce aisle last Tuesday, honestly just staring at a bin of little orange squashes, when the smell hit me. Not … Read more

My neighbor, an older woman named Rosa from Oaxaca, watched me fumbling with a butternut squash at the farmers market. I was trying to find … Read more

“Why can’t you just dump everything in one pot and call it lasagna?” my eight-year-old nephew asked, watching me layer noodles, sauce, and cheese into … Read more

There used to be a little diner off Route 9, the kind with cracked vinyl booths and a jukebox that only played Patsy Cline. It … Read more

My neighbor, a retired botanist named Frank, watched me fumbling with a squash at the community garden’s fall harvest table. He didn’t say anything at … Read more

I was standing in the grocery store parking lot last Tuesday, juggling my purse and a bag of sad-looking bell peppers, when the cold air … Read more

This was supposed to be a simple roasted chicken dinner. I had a beautiful butternut squash sitting on the counter, destined to become a humble … Read more

My brother-in-law, Mark, had a very firm rule about soup. “Soup is not a meal,” he’d announce whenever anyone suggested it for dinner. “Soup is … Read more

I wasn’t expecting much when I walked into my neighbor’s kitchen that Tuesday afternoon. She’d texted me to borrow a bundt pan—the kind of mundane … Read more