Soup Recipes

The office potluck was in three hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, completely. I was standing in my kitchen at 2 PM staring at … Read more

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

It was 11:47 PM on a drizzly Tuesday, and I had a craving that hit like a freight train—something smoky, something brothy, something that would … Read more

I swore I’d never make cheeseburger soup. For years, actually. It sounded like one of those recipes that had jumped the shark—a novelty pretending to … Read more

My neighbor, an older woman named Rosa whose garden fence butts up against ours, watched me trying to wrangle a screaming toddler and a bag … Read more

I was at the DMV. Let me just let that sink in for a second. The DMV — fluorescent lights, that weird mix of floor … Read more

The neighborhood potluck was in three hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, I’d marked it on the calendar, sure, but then life happened—a late … Read more

Maria, the woman who runs the tiny herb nursery two blocks from my house, watched me fumbling with a wilting basil plant last June. She … Read more

I had refused to order baked potato soup for years. Maybe a decade. Every time someone at the table would say, “Ooh, the soup sounds … Read more

There used to be a tiny farm-to-table spot in the Hudson Valley called The Applewood Table that made the most unforgettable honeynut squash soup. It … Read more