CEiMB - Spinach Tortellini Soup
Hostess for this week: Bri of Yoshimi vs. motherhood at http://yoshimivsmotherhood.blogspot.com/
Well Thanksgiving is over and what a fabulous week it was! As most of you already know, I got to multi-task and celebrate my birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas all in one week. It was almost too much fun for one body to handle. Wanted to share this photo with my beautiful flowers that a friend of mine sent me for my birthday. My son also sent me some lovely autumn flowers. I cooked a lot during those three days. I had both my handsome sons home for a day and a half. We made the most of our time together. We had a great bowl of chili while we watched the Iron Bowl, then later we had our Thanksgiving feast of turkey, dressing, green beans, deviled eggs, mashed potatoes and corn casserole, with pecan pie and pumpkin cheesecake for dessert. The next morning we had Ellie's Blueberry Almond French Toast and it was a big hit with everyone. My beautiful new granddaughter was here too and just a bundle of love. Also, we enjoyed meeting my younger son's new girlfriend Serena. They live in Orlando and my other son lives in Dallas. It is always great to see them when they can visit.
Now it is December and that means decorating the house for Christmas. I have the tree up so that is a big start, right?
On to the soup. That is why you are here. This was a spinach tortellini soup that contained some celery, carrots, and onions. It really was just a good vegetable soup with a tomato base. I think I went a bit overboard with the red pepper flakes though because we found it to be quite spicey. I also think it would have been good to add some chicken to it, but I made it like Ellie's recipe this time. Love tortellini. I just used regular ones, however, instead of the spinach ones. It was a quick and easy soup to make on a weeknight and tonight was about as cold a night as we have had here in Alabama so it was the perfect night to enjoy a good, hot soup! We served it with a hunk of french bread.
For the recipe, you can find it at Bri's blogsite or you can get Ellie Krieger's So Easy cookbook. Come join us at Craving Ellie. It is a great group of cooks.
Now it is December and that means decorating the house for Christmas. I have the tree up so that is a big start, right?
On to the soup. That is why you are here. This was a spinach tortellini soup that contained some celery, carrots, and onions. It really was just a good vegetable soup with a tomato base. I think I went a bit overboard with the red pepper flakes though because we found it to be quite spicey. I also think it would have been good to add some chicken to it, but I made it like Ellie's recipe this time. Love tortellini. I just used regular ones, however, instead of the spinach ones. It was a quick and easy soup to make on a weeknight and tonight was about as cold a night as we have had here in Alabama so it was the perfect night to enjoy a good, hot soup! We served it with a hunk of french bread.
Comments
And the soup... we liked it especially on the cold night we had it here in NY. It was light but filling with the tortellini. I used four cheese whole wheat tort. since I couldn't find the spinach & cheese.
Oh! To answer your question about my immersion blender: I do use it a lot. But then again, I often like to puree ingredients because I have weird food texture issues and sometimes do not like certain things to be chunky. So if there are lots of times that you want to blend something but don't feel like pulling out the blender, I say you should go for it!
Pretty chilly here in the deep south the other night, wasn't it. And perfect for this soup. Glad I made the whole batch. Definitely a keeper.
BTW Happy Birthday.
A busy week that is all celebration must be very good. Congratulations.
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