Comfort Food Part 2
Italian Bean Soup combines all the best of our winter produce, dried beans, and rustic greens.
One of the simplest and most common ways to use your slow cooker or Instant Pot is to create a classic soup. If you’re looking for some new ways to mix up the texture, flavor, and aroma of your liquid lunch or dinner, the Zen of Slow Cooking has got the inspiration for you right here.
Italian Bean Soup combines all the best of our winter produce, dried beans, and rustic greens.
Our Chicken Tortilla soup is BIG on flavor and LOW on points! As Chicago Food critic, Kevin Pang says “it’s a restaurant quality meal prepared in your own home.” Vonda Britt, Zen National Sales Manager and long-time WW member says “Staying on track is easy …read more
We’ve been filling flasks with hot soup for my girls to take to school this month. With a restricted canteen and their usual lunchtime dining options moved outdoors they need something quick and hot to get them through the rest of the day. I include …read more
True to our word we have a month full of soup recipes to share. To punctuate the season we bring images of pumpkin patches and mulled apple cider sips to welcome the Fall.
Like many of you, when I learned last March that my best “gift” to humanity was to hibernate, I decided to embrace this moment as a time for introspection and reflection. I also decided (on a less philosophical note) to clean out every cabinet in my …read more
We are listening to a lot of industry talk around the impact of coronavirus on home cooking at the moment. Folks are getting into their kitchens to hone existing culinary skills or start learning from scratch.
What better way to kick off Christmas lunch this year than with seasonal Winter soup goodness to unite us around the Christmas dinner table.
I live in a messy climate (the U.K) where summer can mean a hot and sunny 80 degrees in the shade when everyone heads to the lido, or a cold, wet and windy 55 degrees when we all sit inside in our sweaters with the …read more
In another Zen first, as I sit and type we are working live on our latest photo shoot across three time zones! Unusually, I am not on set for this round of production in Meg’s kitchen, where Kerri Sherman our beloved photographer landed at 10am Central …read more
French Onion soup is a classic recipe which we first posted more than 5 years ago. The reason for a refresh is because we’ve had our heads buried in our Instant Pots over the last few weeks, developing new recipes for our Peapod meal kits.
Now that we’ve moved back across the pond, I’m in search of a replacement for my Chicago community garden. I miss picking-my-own from my pint sized bed. In the meantime, with an abundance of fresh, locally grown English produce, I picked up some peas – in …read more
In a week filled with anniversaries, birthdays, and award celebrations, I managed to get one family meal on the table, which came from my Crock Pot.