Spicy Tortellini Chowder

Hello again! Today's recipe is another from the Biggest Book of Soups & Stews that was featured in my previous post. We've made the Spicy Tortellini Chowder before and it always comes out AMAZING! I shared this with a co-worker today and she loved it. This recipe is a real crowd-pleaser!

Cooking some veggies! Here we have onions, red and green bell peppers, poblano pepper and jalapeno pepper. You can see my Rachael Ray lazy spoon here! I love this spoon, great tool for any cook.

Yay, potato! Cubed up this baking potato I had sitting around for the recipe. That's Jon's fancy knife there.

Fiona was pretending to be helpful...

Tortellinis are a key part of Tortellini Chowder... these are fresh whole wheat cheese tortellinis from Publix!

Looks like soup! Half & half mix has been added. I didn't buy half & half at the grocery store, just mixed half heavy cream and half 2% milk.

Final verdict: SUPER TASTY! Definitely will be making this again, it's a great comfort food that really fills you up. Probably wouldn't recommend for someone watching their waist line as some key ingredients in this soup are pasta, butter, and cream...

Harvest Trio Soup

Long time no post! Tonight's dinner is the Harvest Trio Soup from the Biggest Book of Soups & Stews. As a soup lover, this book is a favorite of mine! You can purchase this book on Amazon.com.

First the recipe called for tomatoes and eggplants to be halved and prepped for roasting! I hadn't cooked with eggplants before so this was new for me.

Sautéing up some leeks in Jon's handy cast iron pot!

Veggies have been roasted. Next step was to scoop out the eggplant guts. The eggplants were still kind of hot...

Getting ready to add some garlic, paprika and cayenne. Spicy!

It's starting to look soup-like now that I have added the vegetable juice

It looks kind of disgusting here... all the veggies have been added.

Blend, blend, blend!

Goldeny~

Final verdict: delicious but spicy! The recipe called for .25 to .5 tsp cayenne and I elected to use .5. Might be better to use .25 unless you like it hot! Jon's not a huge eggplant fan so I probably won't be making this particular soup again, but I will still enjoy my leftovers.