Jul 17 2025
Creamy broth, savory Italian sausage, tender potatoes, kale, and crisp bacon make this Zuppa Toscana-style soup an easy cold-weather dinner with plenty of hearty flavor. This is the creamy Italian-American version of Zuppa Toscana familiar from restaurant menus rather than a traditional Tuscan soup such as ribollita or acquacotta. The distinction matters, but it does …
Jul 10 2025
Few dishes are as closely associated with Hungary as goulash, or gulyás. Deep red from paprika, filled with tender pieces of beef and potatoes, and fragrant with onions, garlic, and caraway, this comforting Hungarian soup is built from simple ingredients that become remarkably flavorful after a long, gentle simmer. One important thing to know before …
Jul 09 2025
A warm bowl of homemade tomato soup is comfort food at its simplest. Ripe tomatoes simmer with onion, garlic, herbs, and broth until everything becomes tender, then the soup is blended until silky smooth and finished with fresh basil. Add a splash of cream when you want something rich and velvety, or leave it out …
May 06 2025
A big pot of minestrone is one of the best examples of how ordinary vegetables and pantry staples can become a deeply satisfying dinner. Carrots, celery, onion, zucchini, green beans, tomatoes, white beans, leafy greens, and small pasta simmer together in a savory herb-scented broth until every spoonful contains a slightly different combination. There is …
Mar 14 2025
Tender corned beef brisket, buttery potatoes, sweet carrots, and soft cabbage make this slow cooker corned beef and cabbage an easy comfort-food dinner with almost no hands-on cooking. The slow cooker is particularly well suited to corned beef because brisket benefits from long, gentle, moist heat. Given enough time, the meat transforms from firm and …
Oct 07 2024
When cool evenings return, a pot of soup simmering on the stove is one of the easiest ways to make dinner feel like fall. This collection moves from silky butternut squash soup to hearty beef stew, spicy pumpkin chili, classic chicken noodle soup, and a vegetable-packed lentil soup. Some are ready in less than an …
Sep 27 2024
Sweet, nutty, and wonderfully creamy when cooked, kabocha squash deserves a place in the fall kitchen alongside butternut squash and pumpkin. Sometimes called Japanese pumpkin, kabocha has dense orange flesh with a flavor somewhere between sweet potato, chestnut, and winter squash. Its natural sweetness works just as well in savory dishes as it does in …
Sep 10 2024
Rich tomato broth, tender pasta, savory beef and Italian sausage, creamy ricotta, and plenty of mozzarella turn everything you love about lasagna into one cozy bowl. Lasagna soup has the hearty flavor of a baked lasagna without the layering, assembly, or long oven time. The meat sauce comes together in one pot while broken lasagna …
Aug 29 2024
Crisp stems, tender green leaves, and a mild cabbage-like flavor make bok choy one of the easiest vegetables to work into weeknight meals. It cooks remarkably quickly and adapts to almost any method you throw at it. Stir-fry it with ginger and garlic, simmer it briefly in soup, eat the tender leaves raw in a …
Aug 15 2024
Sweet corn, tender Yukon Gold potatoes, onion, garlic, thyme, and a creamy broth come together in this easy vegetarian corn chowder. It has everything a good chowder needs: plenty of corn in every spoonful, soft chunks of potato, a rich but not overly heavy broth, and enough texture that it still feels hearty rather than …
