Kristin's Cookbook Project

It's after all soup season, so why not make soup? Recently, I made the vegetable soup that's a nod to Waverly Hills Sanatorium from the cookbook Food To Die For by Amy Bruni. It's one of those recipes that's almost stupidly easy to make - just chopping a few veggies, measure a couple of things, and let it simmer on the stove for an hour. I think even a teenager could make it, perhaps with some supervision from a parent depending on the teen's skills. It's that easy. As it takes an hour on the stove, I can't say it's a quick weeknight dinner, but it's still an easy dish to make. It's tasty too, especially if it's a chilly night where you need to warm up a bit.

Sometimes a pizza is in order, and I found a fairly easy recipe for pizza with fresh tomatoes in the Norwegian translation of 500 Pizzas & Flatbreads by Rebecca Baugniet, so I had a go at it. As mentioned, it was a fairly easy recipe to follow, and I got three pizzas out of it. They may not have been perfectly round, but that's on me, not the recipe. Something else that I really enjoyed, was the fresh tomatoes in it, both as a topping and in the actual tomato sauce. I didn't have any fresh basil around, so I had to use died instead, but it tasted good anyway. Yes, the pizza was something of a Pizza Margherita, with thin Italian crust. Although I'm one of those who enjoy spicy hot foods, I do enjoy food with fresh and simple ingredients too. As this is a vegetarian pizza with few ingredients, a lot of them basic ingredients, it's a fairly cheap dish to make too.