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Warming up with a bowl of Velvety Carrot, Tomato, Celery & Potato Soup

Written by Published on Updated on May 25, 2019 in Uncategorized

It has been very cold here these past few days with temperature hitting  -10 brrrrr.  I know that this cold front has hit most of Europe and will continue until I think until Sunday. I took Charlie for his morning walk, the lake near our home has frozen (of course), some of the kids in our neighborhood were Ice Skating.  Charlie was sitting very close to the water, and was watching the ducks doing their own slippin and a sliding on the ice. 🙂 He kept turning his head sideways from left to right, I on the other hand could not stop laughing…not at the duckies, but at Charlie and his curiosity.  🙂

So I think the best way to warm up from this cold weather is  with another great warm bowl of soup. 🙂  Vegetable soup is on the menu for today, with different veggies and peppers…love to add Red Bell Peppers into this soup, it gives it such a nice sweetness.   

Tomorrow is  the first day of a new month March so this was a nice way to end my month of food blogging.  🙂  

WARMING UP WITH A BOWL OF VELVETY CARROT, TOMATO, CELERY & POTATO SOUP

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Ingredients
  

  • 3 Celery Sticks cut in half
  • 5 Potatoes chopped
  • 2 Leeks chopped
  • 5 fresh Tomatoes cut in half
  • 1 Red Bell Pepper chopped
  • 1/2 cup Olive Oil
  • 2 Zucchini chopped
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 1 litre Water
  • 2 Lemon Juice

Instructions
 

  • Chop and dice the vegetables.
  • In a large pot add in the water, all the vegetables, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper.
  • Boil for 1/2 hr and until all the vegetables are soft. Place boiled vegetables into a food processor and puree the vegetables. Place puree into pot again and cook for 1 hr.

 

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Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

19 Comments

  1. Orvillewrong
    February 28, 2018 at 3:43 pm  ·  Reply

    It sounds delightful!

  2. mistimaan
    February 28, 2018 at 4:46 pm  ·  Reply

    Nice recipe

  3. olivesandfeta
    February 28, 2018 at 9:05 pm  ·  Reply

    I don’t know how you all cope with that cold front. This looks wonderfully heartwarming and would hit the spot in that weather

    • foodzesty
      March 1, 2018 at 7:36 am  ·  Reply

      Well, you kind of get use to it..but the truth be told the winters here are not as bad as in New York…At least here it’s cold and sunny..there OMG I remember some winters with so much snow we couldn’t leave the house. This past week very low temps here in NL but sunny every single day at least in my area. Thank you Marina for you kind comment 🙂

  4. Karin, theaustriandish
    February 28, 2018 at 10:07 pm  ·  Reply

    Perfect for this weather!

  5. dtills
    March 1, 2018 at 12:34 am  ·  Reply

    Looks great! I saw a recipe for slow cooker lasagna soup! I am going to try it out tomorrow 🙂

  6. Rini
    March 1, 2018 at 1:12 am  ·  Reply

    I heard Europe got lots of snow this week, soup is indeed the answer to the cold. Looks delicious!

  7. jyo
    March 1, 2018 at 9:13 am  ·  Reply

    Excellent for chilling weather👌 looks great 💯

  8. Novus Lectio
    March 29, 2018 at 5:49 pm  ·  Reply

    What’s kali orexi?

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