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...]
Hearty Autumn Vegetable Soup
Hearty Autumn Vegetable Soup is a healthy and delicious way to warm up on a cold day. Do you receive the Overtime Cook newsletter? Full of recipes, kitchen tips and deals and more! Click here to signup. I've probably talked about this before, but the weather is turning cold again, which, I've decided, gives me license to talk about soup, comfort food, and other over-discussed topics. Stick with me, kay? Anyway, I woke up Sunday morning, and it was COLD. Like, skip-the-fall-and-rush-straight-into-winter-kinda-cold. And I knew I needed to make a big pot of soup. As an aside, I need to tell you (again, in case you weren't paying attention the last bunch of times) one of my favorite … [Read more...]
Homemade Instant Chicken Noodle Soup (Guest Post)
Your kids' favorite supper - made easily at home: Homemade Instant Chicken Noodle Soup! ***Before we start – have you signed up for my email newsletters? You’ll get new recipes, cooking tips, menu suggestions, kitchen deals – and more! Click here to signup.*** I'm so excited to bring you a guest post today from my friend Chayie Schlisselfeld. You may not know this, but in addition to taking photos for my own blog, I'm a freelance food photographer - I take photos of food for various uses, from commercial (advertising and packaging) to editorial (magazines and cookbooks). One of my clients is Chayie, who writes a recipe column in Ami Magazine (yep, that's the one I write for as … [Read more...]
Butternut Squash Tomato Soup
Thick, filling and hearty, this Butternut Squash Tomato soup is great winter comfort food. ***Before we start – have you signed up for my email newsletters? You’ll get new recipes, cooking tips, menu suggestions, kitchen deals – and more! Click here to signup.*** Looking to start 2015 off with some healthy recipes? Looking for warm, comforting recipes to get you through the cold winter? Looking for easy recipes that taste great? Love soups of any sort? If you answered yes to any of these questions, I'm here with your new favorite recipe: Butternut Squash Tomato Soup. So, we've been through this before: I. Love. Soups. I know it's not a new story, which is why it's … [Read more...]
12 Meatless Soup Recipes To Keep You Warm This Winter
Keep warm this winter with lots of meatless soup recipes! If you've been reading this blog for any length of time, you probably know how much I love soups. Basically all soups. Personally, I can eat soup all year round - no matter what the weather is like outside. But as the days shorten and the temperatures drop, there's really no better time to have a delicious and comforting pot of soup simmering on the stove. And so, I present, 12 vegan soup recipes. No meat, no chicken, no cheese. Vegetarian. Vegan. Parve. Whatever kind of meal you're having, you'll find a great soup to go with it. Soups on my blog: 1) Chunky Vegetable Soup 2) Roasted Carrot Ginger Soup 3) Zucchini and … [Read more...]