Soups & Salads

Spicy Roasted Corn Soup with Bell Pepper and Tomatoes

August 23, 2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 [...]

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Spicy Red Cabbage Kohlrabi Salad

October 11, 2011
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It snowed last weekend. Yes, winter arrived earlier than usually. Can you believe it? I hope this doesn’t lead us into lots of cold weather down the road since I am not up for it yet. I mean, I am really never up for it, except that I need some snow to enjoy my time [...]

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Roasted Pepper Soup

September 25, 2011
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Let’s continue with another recipe that can be prepared ahead and on the dinner table in no time like this roasted pepper soup. Roasting vegetables brings out the very best flavors. I make a lot of my soups via the roasting method in the oven. They are quick, healthy, freeze easily and are reheated and [...]

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