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Roasted Tomato and Mushroom Soup

11 June, 2013 5 Comments

Roasted Tomato and Mushroom Soup from alimentageuse.com #appetizers #starters #soup

If you’ve been following my blog at all, you may have been made aware that soup is pretty much my favourite form of food. Not just any soup though, I have a weird preference for puréed soups. Minestrone? Bleh. “Chicken” Noodle? (well, veg broth noodle) On occasion, sure. But creamy butternut squash, cauliflower, or kale and spinach? Oh yes please. This creamy, roasted tomato and mushroom soup is the perfect consistency of your childhood favourite. Creamy and flavourful with a robust umami flavour from the roasted mushrooms, this soup is full of of nutrients and minerals that are a great remedy for the common cold, a rainy day, or just a day where you crave something hot and delicious. And the best part of this soup is the fact that it’s totally vegan! You wouldn’t know it based on the pale, orange colour and the creamy texture, but there is no cream whatsoever!

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Gluten-Free, Soups, Special Diet, Vegan, Vegetarian Tagged With: basil, mushrooms, pureed, roasted, soup, tomato, vegan, vegetarian

Summer Borscht

20 May, 2013 1 Comment

Summer Borscht from alimentageuse.com. A refreshingly cool soup on a hot summer day, filled with fresh, bright ingredients

I had another Vietnamese recipe for you but because it’s so hot here in Toronto today, I thought I’d share this refreshing summer borscht soup to cool you down on a hot day. My friend Anastasia, who is the musical director of Musica Reflecta, made me this Russian summer soup and it was the brightest, most refreshing lunch I had ever had.

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Gluten-Free, Soups, Special Diet, Vegetarian Tagged With: beets, borscht, cold, gluten-free, lunch, russian, soup, summer, vegetarian

Roasted Sweet Potato Soup

30 April, 2013 Leave a Comment

Creamy sweet potato soup with goat cheese from alimentageuse.com

People always ask me how I have the time or money to make and eat the food on my blog. First of all, being vegetarian means that I save a lot of money because I don’t buy any meat, and beans and tofu are fairly cheap. Second of all, student discounts at grocery stores are awesome. But I try to buy my foods in bulk, and if I do splurge on food, I splurge on high quality foods that I know are good for me and delicious, such as condiments like olive or coconut oil, treats like dark chocolate (organic and fairtrade when possible), fruit, and vegetables.

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Dinner, Gluten-Free, Lunch, Soups, Special Diet, Vegan, Vegetarian Tagged With: appetizer, GF, gluten-free, savory, side, soup, sweet potato, vegan, vegetarian

Cauliflower Soup

5 November, 2012 3 Comments

Cauliflower Soup

Whether or not you’re new to cooking, sometimes, you just totally and completely mess something up. It can something simple like vinaigrette—you added too much salt but you don’t have any more lemon juice so now you have this overly salty dressing. And sometimes it’s something that’s a bit more catastrophic, like your Thanksgiving turkey.

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Gluten-Free, Soups, Vegan, Vegetarian Tagged With: cauliflower, cheddar, dinner, fall, food, immersion blender, soup, vegetarian

Butternut Squash Carrot Soup

20 September, 2012 15 Comments

Let me preface this post with the following statement: IMMERSION BLENDERS ARE THE BEST. You can seriously make so many different things with them, and you don’t have to worry about cleaning the inside of a blender. It’s amazing. Want a slushie? Blenderize it in the cup you want to drink with this thing. Got soup you want to purée? No problem, just purée in the pot. No need for blending in batches and worrying that the steam from the blender will kill you. Guacamole? Velvety smooth with this thing and you don’t need to waste any delicious green goo because you can’t get to it in the blender. But enough about blenders, more about this soup.

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Dinner, Gluten-Free, Soups, Vegan, Vegetarian Tagged With: butternut, carrot, cayenne powder, dinner, fall, food, immersion blenders, soup, squash, vegan, vegetarian, warm, winter

Leek and Potato Soup

27 May, 2012 1 Comment

Leek and Potato Soup

My brain must be backwards or something because I never seem to want food during the the right season. I want soup during the summer and fresh salads during the winter. Maybe it’s because I crave what I can’t have during that season. But this soup is pretty magical. It’s so smooth, it’s almost like liquid velvet. The potato makes it so smooth while the leek adds colour and flavour. Also, is it just me, or are leeks forever connected to Farfetch’d (the pokemon)?

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Soups, Vegetarian Tagged With: leek, lunch, potato, soup, vegetarian

Tomato Soup

9 May, 2012 6 Comments

Reduce the amount of sodium, sugar, and preservatives by making your own tomato soup, from alimentageuse.com

My last few culinary adventures have been very nostalgic for me. First Rice Krispie Squares and then I made rice porridge (chinese congee) with salted eggs. Rice porridge is the Vietnamese staple for when you’re sick; kind of like chicken noodle soup or tomato soup. It reminds me of the times I spent sick in bed, not that those were happy memories, but being in bed with a book and cozy blankets was a good time. This soup is way better than the Campbell’s canned soup because it tastes like home, goodness, and the promise of getting better.

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Soups, Vegan, Vegetarian Tagged With: cream of tomato, soup, tomato, tomatoes, vegan

Spinach and Kale Monster Soup

12 March, 2012 2 Comments

In light of St. Patrick’s day, I bring you something GREEN! Use this soup to cure your hangovers this Sunday after a night of drunken festivities. This soup does not look appetizing, but I promise you that it is super tasty and PACKED with healthiness. Kale is just amazing for you in every way, I think I read somewhere that it reduces the risk of cancer. CANCER? Jeebus. Spinach is just tasty, and it’s topped off with these surprisingly tasty nutritional yeast flakes. These things have an odd, cheesy flavour to them, despite being perfectly vegan. And as you all know, I’m going on a quinoa spree right now because I discovered that quinoa is SO MUCH CHEAPER at the Organic Herb & Spice Food Shop than it is at the local grocery store. And it’s so much easier to cook than rice. =/

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Gluten-Free, Soups, Vegan, Vegetarian Tagged With: green monster, healthy, kale, lunch, quinoa, soup, spinach

French Onion Soup

30 August, 2011 1 Comment

I’d like to proudly say that this is my first actual original recipe. I’ve tried out tons of other French onion soup recipes but so many of them call for wine, or they’re too complicated with all these random liqueurs to put in them. I say, NOTHXGAIZ cause that requires extra money at the LCBO and I’d rather spend that money on flour or sugar for my next baking endeavour =P

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Dinner, Lunch, Soups Tagged With: beef, broth, dinner, french, lunch, onion, soup

Cucumber Avocado Soup

10 August, 2011 2 Comments

Hmm. I’m going on a little bit of a food blog RAMPAGE right now. But it’s because there are so many things I want to make! In my last post I talked about things I ate at the wedding I was just at; this soup wasn’t at the wedding but it was something Chris’ mom ordered at a restaurant. It seemed really intriguing and I wanted to try it. It was quite interesting, to say the least.

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