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Beef Barley Soup with Mushrooms

March 3, 2015 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 2 Comments

Beef Barley and Mushroom Soup Serves 10 Ingredients: 1 cup barley, cooked according to package instructions – $1.59 3 Tablespoons olive oil, divided – stock 2 lbs. boneless beef Chuck steak, cut into small chunks – $8.70 the juice of 1 large orange (1/3 cup) – $0.50 2 cups diced carrots – $0.99 1½ cups[…]

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Chorizo and Shredded Chicken Soup

January 26, 2015 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 1 Comment

Chorizo and Shredded Chicken Soup Serves 8 to 10 Ingredients: 1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts – $3.99 1 lb. Mexican Chorizo sausage, cut into ½” thick rounds – $8.49 1 medium sweet potato, about 2/3 lb. – $0.89 3 Tablespoons olive oil – stock 1 Granny Smith apple, peeled and chopped – $0.99 ½[…]

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Vegetarian Chili with White Beans & Wild Mushrooms

December 26, 2014 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse Leave a Comment

Vegetarian White Bean Chili with Mushrooms Serves 6 Note: Don’t use canned beans for this dish as the lengthy cooking time will cause the beans to lose their integrity. Additionally, if you don’t want to soak the beans overnight follow these directions for the quick-boil solution: Using a large pot, cover the beans with about[…]

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Black Bean Soup with Chicken Sausage and Honey Crisp Apple

December 3, 2013 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 5 Comments

Black Bean Soup with Chicken Sausage and Honey Crisp Apple Serves 8 Note: When I’m preparing homemade soup, if I don’t have a stash of my own chicken or veggie stock I buy organic stock, not broth, from my local market. The stock is less salty than canned broth and while it’s more expensive, it’s[…]

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Leek and Apple Soup with St Andre and Sweet Potato

November 12, 2012 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 6 Comments

Mary Anne here. We really are cooking in these parts, although you’d never know it by the pitifully few posts making it to our beloved blog. It seems that I’m long on inspiration but short on time when it comes to formally writing my latest creations. Hurricanes and snow storms only serve to slow my[…]

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Tortellini Soup with Prosciutto and Spinach

May 1, 2012 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 9 Comments

Mary Anne here. My generation got to enjoy the very first super-warehouse grocery stores like Sam’s and Costco. Actually, Costco was initially dubbed Price Club so I still find myself calling it that.  But the point is, I began to love a chore I had always hated – grocery shopping. The aisles brimmed with all[…]

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Tuscan Sausage Soup with Shell Pasta, Spinach & White Beans

April 23, 2012 by Mariel Goodson 101 Comments

Mariel here. I happen to be one of those people that swears certain pasta shapes just taste better than others. Penne, rigatoni, cavatelli and orecchiete all top my list. Elbow macaroni and farfalle? Ehh, I could take ’em or leave ’em. I suspect it has something to do with their meager sauce-sopping abilities. In any[…]

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Cajun Shrimp Bisque

January 26, 2012 by Mariel Goodson 16 Comments

Mariel here. My mom presented luscious-looking Crab Ravioli on Tuesday, so I thought I’d follow suit and whip up my own seafood-inspired treat. While I typically don’t cook cajun anything, I stumbled across this delicious soup on, well, StumbleUpon. That’s the magic of these social bookmarks, they open you up to a whole wide world[…]

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Black Bean and Candied Sweet Potato Soup

September 29, 2011 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 17 Comments

Mary Anne here. Black beans were on sale at my local grocer and so I decided to take these beauties out for a spin. Most – if not all – of the bean soups I’ve sampled are pretty predictable in a sort of monosyllabic way. But as I considered my seasonal culinary options, visions of[…]

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Chilled Watermelon Gazpacho and Frozen Watermelon Daiquiris

July 21, 2011 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 23 Comments

Mary Anne here. This summer swelter is stretching straight across the US of A, so I find myself in need of cold comfort. Knowing that the thermometer was on the rise, I loaded up the fridge with a bounty of fresh, crisp fruit and whipped up an old Rittenhouse family summer staple – an enormous fruit[…]

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A Boatload of New England Clam Chowder

June 2, 2011 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 20 Comments

Mary Anne here. Writing this recipe tonight reminds me of the old expression “Mad dogs and Englishmen” as it’s probably a bit insane whipping up my lazy man’s chowder amidst an early June heat wave. But I do love chowder and since summer just seems to scream for clams, I’ve dutifully transcribed my favorite rendition in[…]

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Well-Stocked Vegetable Soup

April 5, 2011 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 15 Comments

Mary Anne here. Recently I had an abundance of leftover veggies in my crisper – remnants of the Osso Bucco and Corned Beef and Cabbage I made mid-March. I had dutifully saved all scraps from these veggie-heavy feasts, so transorming the odd leek, cluster of carrots, strained tomato juice and fresh horseradish into yet another[…]

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Roasted Red Pepper Soup with Crabmeat

March 10, 2011 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 19 Comments

Mary Anne here. So I guess it seems I’m in splurge-mode these days, while my dutiful daughter has been shopping her market’s sale shelves. That being said, I do have a pretty good excuse for this pricey dish: I was serving my Osso Bucco to very special guests (Mariel, my niece, and their respective husbands!).[…]

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Hearty Lentil Soup with Smoky Bacon and Sweet Onions

February 3, 2011 by Mariel Goodson 13 Comments

Mariel here. Have you accounted for all of your frostbitten fingers and toes? Broken a hip slip-sliding away on the sidewalk? Suffered through exploding tires after getting stuck in a mound of snow? Anybody else sick of winter yet? Over the past three weeks, I’ve basically been hibernating, only leaving my apartment to walk the[…]

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Broccoli and Cauliflower Soup

January 25, 2011 by Mariel Goodson 8 Comments

Mariel here. As I mentioned in a previous post, I spent the first few weeks of January house-sitting for a family member who owns a lovely little plot in a scenic beach community outside of the city. The off-season is quiet – dead quiet – which afforded me more than enough time to get my[…]

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"Creamy" Wild Mushroom Soup

January 13, 2011 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 9 Comments

Mary Anne here. Recently Mariel created a pasta dish starring Tagliatelle with a Creamy Mushroom Sauce. Since it was tremendously popular with our readers, it stayed top-of-mind…so top-of-mind that I’ve been craving mushrooms ever since. Inspired by the flavor of Mariel’s aforementioned creation, this potage has all of the richness of a cream soup –[…]

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Carrot Ginger Soup with Candied Walnuts

January 6, 2011 by Mariel Goodson 7 Comments

Mariel here. In anticipation of the post-Christmas blizzard, I scurried to the local grocery store to stock up on supplies. You know, just in case a crowd of wayward travelers landed on my front door in need of a hot meal. I overdid it – to say the least – and ended up with three[…]

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Sweet and Smoky Roasted Tomato Soup

December 9, 2010 by Mariel Goodson 11 Comments

Mariel here. When I was growing up, tomato soup fell into the same category as mayo, cottage cheese and green olives – totally vile. I couldn’t for the life of me understand how people happily dug into such heinous food crimes. My mother – a lifelong fan of all of the above – was particularly[…]

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Hungarian Mushroom Soup

November 23, 2010 by Mariel Goodson 12 Comments

Mariel here. I recently paid a long-overdue visit to one of my closest childhood friends – a fellow food lover who ferreted me to her favorite spot in the beautiful Black Mountains of North Carolina. We both suffer from eyes-bigger-than-stomach syndrome, so when she insisted I order a full-size portion of Verandah‘s famous Hungarian Mushroom[…]

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Leek and Potato Soup with Roasted Pears

November 4, 2010 by Mary Anne Rittenhouse 7 Comments

Mary Anne here. Okay, I must confess, we’re on a pear tear here at Feast on the Cheap. Having discovered that pears enhance everything from soup to Cinnamon Pear Coffee Cake, we just can’t get enough of this seasonal fruit. Pears add a certain je ne sais quoi to all manner of recipes, so I[…]

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