Soup & Stew

How to Make Spicy Mushroom Miso Ramen

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Today marks the end of the Mushroom Masters, so to celebrate such a fun month I’m here to hold your hand and prove just how easy it is to make my recipe for Spicy Mushroom Miso Ramen.  It’s officially fall, so you are out of legitimate excuses for not making soup.  Come jump on my [...]

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Spicy Mushroom Miso Ramen

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Mushrooms + Fuji Family = LOVE  and this week I’m getting the chance to go head to head with bloggers from Canada and Australia in a mushroom battle.  Did you know that this month is National Mushroom Month here in the U.S.?  To celebrate, last week kicked off the second annual Mushroom Masters, an international [...]

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Desperation Dinners: Salad Soup (i.e., Creamy Spinach Soup)

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Pork and Lentil Soup

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*Have you entered my Zojirushi giveaway?  Zojirushi just added a 2nd rice cooker to the giveaway, so now there are TWO chances to win!!  Go enter! ————————————————————————————————————————————————– A little insight into the weirdness that is Fuji Mama: I start to crave soup when the weather heats up.  The deeper into summer we get, the more [...]

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Tori No Mizutaki—Chicken & Vegetable Hot Pot

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It’s wintertime and I’ve got nabemono on the brain.  Nabemono, or nabe, are Japanese “hot pots” (usually soups or stews) prepared in large earthenware pots (donabe) or heavy cast iron pots (tetsunabe) tableside, set in the middle of the dining table for communal eating so that everyone can easily refill their bowls.  This also makes [...]

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Creamy Kabocha Sweet Potato Pomegranate Soup

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Creamy kabocha sweet potato pomegranate soup.  Does it sound good?  I hope so, because it is.  I have been trying to write about this soup for a good week now.  Yesterday I struggled through putting together the post, and then went to add pictures and got an error screen.  When I tried to refresh and [...]

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Miso Soup with Clams, Shiitake Mushrooms, & Wakame

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* The winner of the Jarlsberg Tailgate Tote Giveaway, as chosen by Random.org, was comment #19: Comment 19 was from Melissa. This is how she said she would use Jarlsberg cheese! Congrats Melissa, I’ll be emailing you to get your contact info so we can ship you your tote!!

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Coconut Lemongrass Somen Noodle Soup

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Have you voted yet today? You can vote once every day between now and December 31st! Help me win the title of favorite Crescent Cook and be entered for the chance to win $5,000! You have to fill out the entire form below the pictures and set up an account for your vote to count. [...]

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bell’alimento’s Tortellini in Brodo (Tortellini in Broth)

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Have you voted yet today? You can vote once every day between now and December 31st! Help me win the title of favorite Crescent Cook and be entered for the chance to win $5,000! ======================================= I’m so grateful to have sweet blogging friends who I can call on for help occasionally!  This past Friday I [...]

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Slow Cooker Chicken Gohan Stew

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I was contacted recently by Ali, who writes the blog Fat to Fit, about a challenge she was hosting called the Healthy Slow Cooker Challenge, in which participants were being challenged to cook at least one healthy slow cooker meal this week. Tuesday, during our drive home from Utah, Squirrel began to complain that she [...]

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