Pumpkin Black Bean Soup

  It’s Seriously Soup day today, featuring one of my favorite bloggers, Serena, who authors a blog called Seriously Soupy.  Serena started Seriously Soupy as a creative outlet for herself after her first daughter was born, which combined her passion for cooking with an interest in learning more about soups and soup making.  Since it started, she has given soup tours and taught soup classes and has a catalog of over 100 soups on the site!  You can join Serena on her Soupy journey at SeriouslySoupy.com and twice a month you can find … [Read more...]

Fall Harvest Recipes

What do you do when you get back home from an afternoon of apple picking , open the doors to your apartment (or house) and realize that between the pounds of apples picked and sheer girth of the pumpkins you've purchased, you’ve got no counter space left in your kitchen? Sure, you get a rush when you’re actually selecting and picking the apples in the beautifully vast orchard  blanketed with crystal blue skies. However, when you’ve got the filled bags sitting in your kitchen, it’s a little overwhelming. Hoping to put a serious dent in my … [Read more...]

Mini Frittatas

Wednesday nights are the coveted breakfast for dinner nights in our house.  While the idea of eating pancakes for dinner has lost some of its intrigue this past year, I was excited to kick off the 2nd season of breakfast for dinner with a new recipe I tried last weekend: Mini Frittatas. I can’t take credit for these amazing bundles of eggy goodness.  My sister-in-law introduced them to me when we were breaking the fast from our Yom Kippur observance.  In fact,  she had me work her frittata assembly line.  She gave me the task of filling the … [Read more...]

Tomato, Pumpkin and Chickpea Soup

It’s Seriously Soup day today, featuring one of my favorite bloggers, Serena, who authors a blog called Seriously Soupy.  Serena started Seriously Soupy as a creative outlet for herself after her first daughter was born, which combined her passion for cooking with an interest in learning more about soups and soup making.  Since it started, she has given soup tours and taught soup classes and has a catalog of over 100 soups on the site!  You can join Serena on her Soupy journey at SeriouslySoupy.com and twice a month you can find her here, at My … [Read more...]