TIP OF THE DAY: Homemade Lentil Soup

Top: Vegetarian lentil soup with mustard greens from Good Eggs. Bottom: Black beluga lentils from InHarvest.com.   Lentil soup is a winter favorite: hearty, nutritious comfort food. Why make your own? Better lentils, more nuanced flavors and the ability to control the salt. Today’s tip is an easy recipe for homemade vegetarian lentil soup, with…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make A Savory Galette

Beet and Sweet Potato Galette from Vermont Creamery.   Shoo the winter blues away with a colorful galette. In the pastry world, a galette is a rustic, open-face pie, made without a pie pan. It is flat, with a turned-up crust that wraps around the filling to create a “dough pan.” It can be round,…
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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

Valentine soup. Photo courtesy Mowie Kay.   HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY FROM THE NIBBLE     If you’d like to celebrate with this Valentine soup, the recipe is at Mowielicious.com, a fine-food blog. The website has the most beautiful professional food photography, but no “About Us” information. So we did a quick search and found that…
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