Garden Lifestyle

Soup for All Seasons

Soup is a fine way to serve seasonal vegetables or use up leftovers.

By Ruth Dobsevage

Many soups start with these basic ingredients, but you don't have to limit yourself to the tried and true. Almost any vegetable can be served up in soup.
Photo/Illustration: Scott Phillips

When it comes to soup, we all have our seasonal favorites. For winter, I like to make a big pot of hearty pasta e fagioli using frozen stewed tomatoes from the previous summer’s crop. As the weather warms, the soup of the day might be asparagus or leek. In summer, there’s gazpacho or cold cucumber soup, and in fall, caldo verde (a Portuguese soup made with kale) is a family favorites.

Post your own soup recipe
Below you’ll find links to the soup recipes on this site. If you have a recipe to share, please post your ingredients, instructions, and a photo of the finished dish), and I’ll add it a link to it on this page.

Slurp more soup at FineCooking.com
For even more options, check out the vegetable soup recipes at FineCooking.com. Also on that site, you’ll find recipe maker pages that allow you to select the ingredients and create your own recipe for creamy vegetable soup and summer vegetable soup.

*Winter…*

Pasta e Fagioli	Country Pea Soup with Rosemary	Curried Vegetable Soup	Dilled Beet and Buttermilk Soup

*Spring…*

Beef and Winter Radish Soup	Leek Soup	Leek and Potato Soup	Cream of Lettuce Soup

			Create your own recipe: Creamy Vegetable Soup
Zuppa Verde	Fresh Pea Soup with Mint	Fresh Asparagus Soup

*Summer…*

Golden Squash Blossom Crema (Crema de Flores de Calabaza)	Sweet Corn Soup with Cilantro Salsa	Garden Gazpacho	Cold Cucumber Dill Soup

	*Fall…*
Create your own recipe: Summer Vegetable Soup
	Winter Squash Soup with Black Beans and Corn	Sunset Soup	Peasant Soup

			See all Fine Cooking vegetable soup recipes
Pompa Sisters’ Fall Soup with Scarola	Fall Harvest Soup	Vegetable Stock

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