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Twelve Soup Recipes for Soup Season

August 23, 2019
12 Soup Recipes for Soup Season | FakeFoodFree.com #souprecipes #soups #stilllife #bowls #foodphotography

Soup season is almost upon us! Chances are it will be upon you much sooner than it is upon me. It stays hot here in California’s Central Valley through October. But I try not to think about it.

The point is I want you to be prepared. I’ve made a lot of soup recipes over the years. So many that I thought I’d pull some of my favorites together so that you can easily access them.

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The Simplest Butternut Squash Soup

November 14, 2018

This is the absolute simplest way to make butternut squash soup if you want a version that is full of slow-roasted flavor and more savory than sweet. 

The Simplest Butternut Squash Soup Recipe | FakeFoodFree.com #soup #starters #souprecipes #easyrecipes #healthyeating #healthyrecipes #thanksgivingideas #dairyfree

I thought I was tired of butternut squash soups. Maybe you are, too. I’ve had quite a few winter squash soups on the blog. But I needed something really simple for lunch. I felt a little bad that the season for the soup had just begun and I’d already hit my limit. I thought I should give it another try.

The catch was that I didn’t want to do any chopping or dicing. I also didn’t want to pour one out of a tetra pak and heat it up. And it couldn’t be too sweet. I think that is sort of the turn-off with squash soups. When other ingredients like apple, onion, and dairy are added, they tend to end up super sweet. It has its place, but I wasn’t in the mood for it. 

So I came up with this version. No frills. It uses slow-roasted squash (see the easy instructions below), and it is creamy, savory and a touch spicy versus sweet. It’s the soup to add as a starter course for a holiday day dinner because it’s so hands off and easy to make. 

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Smoky Instant Pot Potato Soup [without the cream]

September 14, 2018
Smoky Instant Pot Potato Soup Recipe without cream | FakeFoodFree.com #instantpotrecipes #souprecipes #potatosoup #comfortfood

I wasn’t lying when I said I was in a soup mood. This particular soup resulted from an experiment. I had four fairly large red potatoes on the counter for a few days and I kept thinking – I bet I could make that into a soup in the Instant Pot. 

I finally jumped in and took a chance. With great results, I might add. I wanted a creamy soup, pureed. But I didn’t want to add any cream or milk to it. Immersion blender to the rescue. 

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Instant Pot Black Bean Bison Chili

September 11, 2018

This black bean bison chili is made in the Instant Pot with layers of several seasonings for a rich flavor. It’s served with a garnish of crumbled aged white cheddar. 

Instant Pot Black Bean Bison Chili Recipe | FakeFoodFree.com #instantpotrecipes #chilirecipes #bisonrecipes #healthyeating

It wasn’t my intention to post three soups in a row, but it looks like that is how it’s going to turn out. I don’t know why this soup mood has suddenly come over me.

But I do know that every first pot of chili for the season is a bit of a celebration around here. At least in my kitchen, and well, in my head. 

I present this year’s, compiled of black beans that had been sitting in the pantry and needed to be used up, and ground bison that I had in the freezer, leftover from a client shoot a few months ago. 

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Curry Peanut Heirloom Winter Squash Soup

September 5, 2018
Curry Peanut Heirloom Winter Squash Soup Recipe | FakeFoodFree.com #souprecipes #fallrecipes #healthyeating #wintersquash #comfortfood

Fall starts on September 1 for me. I’m not at all concerned about what a calendar developed years ago tells me. I’m not waiting several more weeks to embrace the season. 

I know you are saying – I’m not ready, I love summer, it’s still hot. Believe me, it’s not lost on me. It’s 99 here. 

Fall is a state of mind. And if you are a fall baby, like I am, you are enjoying fall in your head weeks before everyone else catches up. 

Another factor is that all the delicious fall things have started to show up around here. Namely, winter squash.

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Spinach, Garlic and Tahini Soup

March 13, 2018

A simple meal, this spinach garlic, and tahini soup is pureed in a blender before being simmered, then served. 

A simple soup recipe that blends spinach, garlic, and tahini! Find it at FakeFoodFree.com

I was checking out at the supermarket the other day when the conversation turned to the food I was buying. This happens all the time. It usually starts with a comment about me cooking or eating healthy foods. 

Comments like these don’t make me proud of myself or happy. As a former health professional, they always sadden me a bit. That’s because they mean that the foods in my cart stand out to the cashier as being very different from the foods the majority of other people are buying. 

But this conversation went a step further to a comment I had yet to hear. 

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Rustic Cream of Potato Soup with Lemon and Dill

December 4, 2017
Rustic Cream of Potato Soup with Lemon and Dill Recipe | FakeFoodFree.com

We have lemons this year!

It’s been a while. The dwarf Meyer lemon tree I bought at the farmers market in the Bay almost 5 years ago has been through a lot. Pots on a balcony then in a backyard, mild Bay temps, hot Central Valley temps…

But it’s been in the ground for at least a year now, and it seems happy. If you can define happy by about 40 lemons. 

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Easy Pressure Cooker Bean Soup

November 3, 2017
Easy Pressure Cooker Bean Soup | Instant Pot Recipe | FakeFoodFree.com

I always pass those multi-bean mixes when I’m perusing the bulk bin section at the supermarket. I’m tempted to buy them, but then I wonder how all those different varieties will cook together. I make enough beans and lentils to know that cooking times and textures vary. 

Honestly, it’s taken me a long time to figure it all out and keep track of what results in the perfect bean in my book. No reason to ruin the good thing I’ve got going.

But last week, there I was again, staring at the mother of all bean mixes – 13 bean and lentil mix. 

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Brown Butter Bourbon Butternut Squash Soup

October 5, 2017
Brown Butter Bourbon Butternut Squash Soup Recipe | FakeFoodFree.com

I know what you might be thinking. Another butternut squash soup recipe? Aren’t there enough of those? 

Honestly, I was thinking the same then when I started making this. 

I love winter squash soup this time of year, but I’ll be the first to admit that I get bored of the flavor. I stepped it up by adding scotch bonnet pepper a long while back, but I wasn’t in the mood for that. I also didn’t want it to become sweet. Savory butternut squash soups are the best, in my opinion. 

I finally settled on brown butter. 

 

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Broccoli Cashew Soup

September 13, 2016

This broccoli cashew soup is blended until creamy and garnished with curry chickpeas and cashews. 

Broccoli Cashew Soup Recipe | Fake Food Free | A creamy vegan, gluten-free soup.

It’s pretty plain and simple how most of my recipes come about. I just like to experiment. 

When there is a new ingredient that is all the rage or an old one that is being used in a new way, I simply want to see how it might work in some of my old favorites. 

The ingredient of choice for the past little while has been cashews. You’ve probably seen how they can be turned into a creamy sauce. They are also being used to make a cheese-like product. It’s pretty fascinating if you are into that sort of thing. And I am. 

A while back I made some creamed corn with cashew and recently I decided to see how the blended nuts would be in a broccoli cashew soup.

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