Tomato Ideas and a Note of Gratitude

Just a quick post this holiday weekend to share with you a few of my favorite tomato recipes. I know some of you may have a bumper tomato crop this year and aren’t sure what to do with all those tomatoes. Unfortunately, this year, I am not one of you. Not sure what we did [...]

Soup’s On – Happy 2009!

Happy 2009! I mentioned on Wednesday that we welcomed the new year with our traditional Soup’s On party.  Soup is a great way to feed a crowd. As promised, today I will share with you the menu from our party.  This year I cooked up four big pots of soups.  I have shared the four [...]

Trick or Treat – Taco Soup

 Note:  Be sure and click on over to iLashGirls today for two great giveaways.  There is  an opportunity to win a coaching session with speaker and coach Mary-Ellen Drummond as well as a giveaway for three amazing pieces of jewelry that are part of our Breast Cancer Awareness Giveaway Halloween can turn into a crazy [...]

Grown Up Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese

As many of you, I ate my share of tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches growing up – one of my favorite meals as a child. Campbell’s Tomato Soup was my soup of choice.  Except for that period of time when I was two years old and the ONLY food I would eat was Campbell’s Turkey Vegetable [...]

Barefoot Bloggers – Cream of Wild Mushroom Soup

Last week they were having a potluck soup and bread night at church (the evening I taught my Meal Planning class) so I decided that was the perfect opportunity to make this Barefoot Blogger recipe. You see, I don’t like mushrooms. Those of you who know me will not be surprised by this.   Remember I [...]

Friday Favorite – Pasta e Fagioli

This week’s Friday Favorite is by popular request.  This is my mother’s recipe and I have actually never made it – only eaten it! I attended a luncheon yesterday hosted by my friend Daurie who recently built and moved into her beautiful new home.  She treated a group of us to a delicious lunch at [...]

Dinner Time -Roasted Red Pepper Soup

     This is one super easy soup!  It is perfect for those days when you have a  busy day and not much time to cook  You just put it all in a pot and let it cook away.  There are only 4 ingredients (other than olive oil and salt)!   LA Notes: I buy my red [...]

Soup’s On – Clam Chowder

Tortellini and Sausage Soup

I usually share a Team Talk post on Monday but today I am going to share our family’s “traditional” Halloween Night meal just in case you want to try one of the recipes this Halloween.  The Team Talk post will be added on Wednesday.  Since Halloween is usually a crazy night -getting into costumes, parties, [...]

Dinner Time – Fresh Tomato & Herb Soup

It’s harvest time at the Wilkes’ house.  It’s time to put the vegetable garden to bed for the winter.  Jim went out this week and picked all the remaining tomatoes (3 buckets full!).  The pumpkins were also ready to be picked.  It is a family tradition for all of us to go out and pick [...]