Red Lentil Soup Recipe, Other Greek Yogurt Delights & Aleppo Pepper

[1] Red lentil soup is golden and glorious, with a sprinkle of Aleppo pepper. The recipe is below (photo © Marcus Nilsson | Chobani). [2] Creamy red lentil and carrot soup. Here’s the recipe. Find more lentil recipes at Lentils.org (photos #2, #3, and #7 © Saskatchewan Pulse Growers). [3] Red, brown, and green lentils.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Drizzled Soup Garnish

Have you ever been served a bowl of soup with a drizzle of oil? Floating on the surface of the soup, it’s a fashionable garnish at better restaurants. But the oil does more than look pretty. It adds a rich dimension of flavor to the soup and creates a more complex aroma. It’s an easy…
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A Classic Italian Dish: Pasta e Fagioli Soup Recipe

If you’ve watched enough “Abbott & Costello” reruns, you’ll hear Lou Costello wanting a dish of “pasta fazool.” That’s Neapolitan Italian dialect for pasta e fagioli, correctly pronounced pasta ay fah-JOE-lee. Pasta e fagioli, pasta with beans (typically cannellini beans), is a popular Italian peasant dish. Some Americans call it bean and macaroni soup, but…
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RECIPE: Low Calorie Seafood Chowder

Lower calorie “chowder.” Photo courtesy Swanson.   We just discussed transforming favorite, calorie-packed recipes with lighter cooking techniques. This recipe for a lower calorie seafood “chowder,” from Swanson’s, substitutes vegetable broth and tomato soup for the cream used in many chowders. FOOD 101: Call it what you want, but even with cream, this is not…
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