Soups & Salads

Honey Tomato Soup

May 1, 2013

Listen to this conversation I overheard in the kitchen between my hubby and our daughter while I took the pictures for this post: D: I am hungry, dad. What’s for lunch? H: As soon as mom is done you can eat the photo shoot. LOVING IT!! This is not an unusual scenario at my house, [...]

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Tomato-Curry Soup Recipe & Tasting Colorado Cookbook Giveaway

February 17, 2013

Today I have the honor to share with you a copy of the brand new cookbook Tasting Colorado featuring a compelling collection of outstanding dishes from the Centennial State. Tasting Colorado is written and photographed by my friend Michele Morris. a local chef, sommelier, caterer, and food blogger (Cooking with Michele) . In her [...]

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Spicy Roasted Corn Soup with Bell Pepper and Tomatoes

August 23, 2012

Today I am heading off to Portland, Oregon to the International Food Blogger Conference. This will be my very first Foodie conference and I am super excited. Interesting workshops, great food, and fun company that share my food obsession, sounds perfect to me! Mr. Rockies will be home to hold down the fort. He has [...]

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Farro Salad With Roasted Veggies on Balsamic Pumpkin Oil Vinaigrette

April 27, 2012

With the warmer weather arriving here in Colorado, I like to leave the soups and stews behind and move on to nutritious and fresh salads served along side a perfectly barbequed piece of meat. The other night while checking my pantry I decided on a farro salad with roasted veggies on balsamic pumpkin oil vinaigrette. [...]

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Organic Collard-Cauliflower Soup

March 16, 2012

St. Patrick’s Day is fast arriving and my contribution would be an organic collard-cauliflower soup with the brightest green color you have ever seen. It is just gorgeous to look at. I added some extra heat through using grape seed jalapeno oil in the topping. This velvety collard-cauliflower soup is probably not a traditional Irish [...]

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Organic Yellow Split Pea Soup with Bacon

February 22, 2012

Here is my twist on a traditional pea soup the way I remember my German aunt preparing it. She served pea soup with some rustic bread and a Frankfurter sausage. My variation substitutes bacon for the sausage and uses the sweeter yellow split peas. I also added lots of veggies including leek, carrots, onions [...]

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Red Lentil Soup Egyptian Style

January 13, 2012

This Egyptian red lentil soup was featured in the latest Food & Wine magazine. As soon as I laid eyes on the recipe, dinner decision was made. What a wonderful meal it turned out to be. I loved the addition of the cumin, coriander and ancho chile, it adds a totally different flavor combination to [...]

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Organic Adzuki Bean Miso Soup

January 6, 2012

Organic Adzuki Bean Miso Soup My daughter has wanted to accompany me to the Asian supermarket since forever. Winter break gave her the chance and we came home with lots of unknown but very interesting new food finds. One of the items we purchased was Adzuki beans which are very popular in Japanese cuisine. There [...]

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Starting 2012 Happy & Healthy with an Orange-Spinach-Arugula Salad

January 3, 2012

Welcome to a New Year of mouthwatering recipe ideas at “My German Kitchen..in the Rockies”. Hope you all had a good start into 2012. Here are my very best wishes to you my friends and readers with a fresh and healthy orange-spinach-arugula salad. The salad is served with tasty apricot vinaigrette and topped with toasted [...]

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Halloween With Horses and A Warming Veggie Soup

October 30, 2011

Several years ago my kids’ previous riding instructor always planned a fun Halloween Party at my friend’s barn for all her riding students. It was called “Halloween with Horses”. The kids absolutely loved to dress up themselves and their horse. Can it get any better? The picture above shows my daughter with the instructor’s little [...]