Eating and living locally . . . mindfully . . . simply.
OK cooking magazines, stop teasing me with your photos of steamed asparagus and strawberry shortcake. Here in Michigan we have at least three more months before the ground gives up anything new. To celebrate winter, here are some of my favorite soups & stews.
I purchased a vegetable box from a local farmer who is offering produce year round-no small feat in Michigan! I decided this soup would be perfect for using the cabbage that came with it. Pin It
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This recipe is adapted from The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution. As much as I don’t want it to be winter yet, I was able to use mostly produce from last week’s CSA pickup.
While not nearly as good as my mom’s recipe for White Chili, this is a more than passable rendition.
No, it’s not winter (even though it feels like autumn outside!) I was pleased that I could use many of my CSA vegetables for this stew.
I can always tell when DH likes the recipe, because there are no leftovers! This is a “soup”er soup that tastes like summer!
OK, seriously? I have eaten more soup since starting this project than I think I ever have in my entire lifetime. Did you know there are 40 soups and stews in Simply in Season. I’ve made 32. That means I have 8 more to go. With the weather in the upper 90s (that’s 35 celcius for my Canadian readers) I am starting to doubt my resilience to finishing this project. But for now, I’m carrying on.
At first I wasn’t sure exactly how I was going to make this soup from Simply in Season. I only get a handful of peas at a time from my CSA, and the shelling peas were washed away in my garden (I have plenty of snow peas though!). Luckily for me I found a little booth at the farmer’s market where they were selling peas that were already shelled! Well worth it to me.
Simply In Season calls this “Weed Soup” in the recipe notes. It’s a great way to use up CSA leftovers!
I really wanted to like this soup. It used all sorts of my spring vegetables and herbs. Alas, DH said it reminded him of vomit.
