Spreading our wings
Our 11-year-old granddaughter left for summer camp on Sunday. I remember packing her mother's camp trunk every year, and I remember my mother packing mine. Camp taught me new skills -- how to knot a lanyard, how to capsize a canoe, how to catch salamanders in the woods with my bare hands, and how to short-sheet a bed -- and it was a place to spread my wings.
Now that I'm too old for camp, I've been spending these early days of summer making a few enhancements I think you'll like here on Soup Chick.
For the first clue about what's new, look up. (Are you looking? Up at the top of the page?) Thanks to input from readers on Facebook, I'm adding stews and chili recipes to the menu.
If you're a fan of Meatless Mondays, come here on Monday mornings for great vegetarian and vegan recipes. During the week, look for interesting real-food soups, stews and chili from around the world. Slow cooker soups, quick-and-easy soups, and recipes you can freeze for your next soup swap: more recipes, the best of the web, collected by me to share with you.
My original soup, stew and chili recipes will debut on The Perfect Pantry before they're featured here; sign up for updates from The Perfect Pantry, to get those recipes first.
Special thanks go to my husband Ted, who listens to all of my ideas (and eats more leftover soup than any man should be asked to consume), and to my friend Kalyn of Kalyn's Kitchen and Slow Cooker from Scratch, who inspired me to reimagine this blog.
I hope the very best soup, stew and chili recipes on the web tempt you to spread your culinary wings.
What great new ideas! And I love the tureen. That's a fish with character.
Wonderful changes! Love seeing continuing growth AND all the great soups and stews! And, yes, I love the fish tureen, too!
Colleen, thanks so much. The little fish tureen actually holds 2-3 bowls of soup, so it's truly small enough to be a mascot!
Cindy, it's fun to reimagine, and I hope the changes I'm making will bring lots of great recipes to try.
Yaay, I am looking forward to seeing more stews and chilis as well as the good soups you always have here.
That is the sweetest looking fish and, therefore, cutest soup tureen. :-) I'm all for everything you're ready to offer up here, Lydia ... in fact, I can't wait!
Shirley
Kalyn, I'm having fun finding some great stews and chili recipes to share here. And, there will always be soup!
Shirley, thanks for your support and kind words. I know you'll enjoy the new features.
I dream of umpteen kinds of gazpacho, in all colors. Sweet cherry soup, too, though you've probably already done that.
Thanks, Lydia!
Jean, I haven't posted a cherry soup. Got a recipe for me to try?
I remember the fish tureen, that's awesome. I think your ideas for Soup Chick are wonderful, can't wait to see what happens.