Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. P.S – it’s completely free! This soup may look beautiful, but it’s total comfort food in the bowl. The warm flavors of root vegetables, the sweet flavor of apple, and the richness of the marrow bones combine to make a dish that’s bound to become a family favorite. You can skip the marrow bones to make the soup parve, but it will lack that richness. Did you know that I share cooking demos, menu plans, giveaways, and lots more exclusive content on Instagram? Follow me there for all that bonus content that you don’t want to miss! Like … [Read more...]
Hearty Lentil Soup with Meatballs
Hearty Lentil Soup with Meatballs is the ultimate meal-in-one soup that is delicious, freezer friendly and family friendly! Click here to join the Overtime Cook WhatsApp Status, for exclusive recipes, tips and content! Are you more into creamy/pureed soups, or do you prefer chunky soups? Personally, I love pureed soups - I find them to be very comforting. But there's definitely always a place for a hearty, chunky, thick soups. When I got married, I discovered that my husband vastly prefers a hearty chunky soup to a smooth soup, so I've been greatly expanding my repertoire of chunky soups. I also discovered that of all the soups, lentils seem to be a real favorite of … [Read more...]
Crockpot Cabbage and Beef Stew
Crockpot Cabbage and Beef Stew is a quick and easy comfort food dish that comes together in minutes and cooks in your crockpot as you go about your day! Do you receive the Overtime Cook email newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips, menus and more! Click here to sign up. There's really nothing quite like a crockpot dinner to make me feel like I've got my life together. No matter how tired I am after my work day, no matter if the house is flying, dinner is ready when I'm ready for it, and I don't need to do anything. The fact that the house will smell amazing when you arrive home (or all day, if you work from home like I do!) is just a nice big bonus! This … [Read more...]
Beef and Broccoli Soup
Beef and Broccoli Soup is a meal-in-one take on a Chinese restaurant classic that your whole family will love! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. There are certain dishes that I'll reliably order every time I see it on the menu. I mean, I'm not proud of this. I also want to branch out, and I often do, but I see certain menu items and I *need* to have them. For example, if I see beer battered onion rings on a restaurant menu, I need to taste them. Sometimes they're massively disappointing, but occasionally they're really great and I'll always take that chance. Then, there's beef and broccoli. Every time I … [Read more...]
Mushroom Barley Chicken Soup
Slow cooked chicken soup combines with hearty mushroom barley to make this instant favorite: Mushroom Barley Chicken Soup! Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? It’s full of recipes, kitchen tips and more! Click here to sign up. Let's talk about comfort food, shall we? But first, let me tell you guys a little story about how I couldn't make up my mind, and that led me to create one of my new favorite soups, ever. In general, I hate making decisions. Ask me where I want to go for dinner, and the answer will always be "I don't care as long as I don't have to choose." No jokes. I'm indecisive and it's not usually a good thing. But recently, it came in pretty handy. I was … [Read more...]
Meaty Tomato Soup
Meaty Tomato Soup is rich, flavorful and just so delicious! Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group! This recipe is for my sister. No, literally for my sister. she asked me to make a recipe for a great meaty tomato soup. Not the old fashioned kind with cabbage and buckets full of sugar, but a rich, savory, meaty tomato soup that she could put on her yom tov menu. Like any good sister does, I got to work coming up with the best, richest, most delicious tomato soup I could come up with. The end result is incredible. It's savory, it's delicious, it's phenomenal. You know when you have a really, … [Read more...]
Healthy Recipe Roundup
The Ultimate Healthy Recipe Roundup to help with your weight loss and health resolutions! Is there a time of the year, more than these post-pesach days, when people are more focused on eating healthy and paying more attention to their diets? No, I don't think so either. Aside from any over-indulgences we may have enjoyed over the holiday, I think there's also a "fresh start" aspect. Before passover, we clean all the food out of our kitchens. Over the holiday, we buy our pesach food. Then when pesach is over and real life starts again, we need to restock. And now, the choice is ours. Do we stuff our pantries with crackers and cookies and all kinds of junk? Or do we load our shelves up … [Read more...]
Hearty Mushroom Soup with Parsley Pesto Matzo Balls
Hearty Mushroom Soup with Parsley Pesto Matzo Balls is perfect comfort food for a cold winter evening! Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group! This post is brought to you as part of an ongoing partnership on this blog with Lipton Kosher. Thank you for supporting the brands that help keep this blog running. Hey guys. I'm back with another amazing matzo ball recipe today. Excited? You should be! With the weather getting colder and colder (is it summer yet?!?!) I've been craving soup like crazy lately. And what better soup than mushroom soup, right? If you don't know this about me yet, I LOVE mushrooms. I'll … [Read more...]
Creamy Vegetable and Flanken Soup
Thick, creamy, filling and hearty, Creamy Vegetable and Flanken Soup is going to become your favorite comfort food! Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group. This soup was going to be a simple parve (meatless) vegetable soup one day when I was craving something warm and comforting, now that the cold weather is upon us. So I was in the grocery store, roaming the produce aisles, hoping for some inspiration. And it struck, in the form of a creamy vegetable and flanken soup. Not parve, not super quick cooking, but oh-my-gosh delicious. The idea that I had here, which worked out so splendidly, was to cook my … [Read more...]
Meatball Stuffed Matzo Balls in Creamy Tomato Soup
Meatball Stuffed Matzo Balls in Creamy Tomato Soup are the ultimate mashup between Jewish and Italian comfort foods! Have a question about one of my recipes? The best place to get answers is the Overtime Cook Recipes Facebook Group! This post is brought to you as part of an ongoing partnership on this blog with Lipton Kosher. Thank you for supporting the brands that help keep this blog running. If you've been following my blog for a while (yay!) you probably know that I love to create mash-ups of two different things. One of my most famous recipes ever, my Hot Gooey Caramel Pie, started as a mashup between (believe it or not!) Chocolate Chip Cookies and Cheesecake! I've also … [Read more...]