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.

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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
 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
Beef and Winter Radish Soup Leek Soup Leek and Potato Soup Cream of Lettuce Soup
             
Zuppa Verde   Fresh Pea Soup with Mint   Fresh Asparagus 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
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
Winter Squash Soup with Black Beans and Corn Sunset Soup Peasant Soup
Pompa Sisters' Fall Soup with Scarole Fall Harvest Soup Vegetable Stock   See all
Fine Cooking
vegetable
soup recipes
Pompa Sisters’ Fall Soup with Scarola Fall Harvest Soup Vegetable Stock

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