Kid friendly soups, stews & chilis recipes costing more than $3 per serving

Beef & Lentil Stew

The cold weather called for stew today. My good friend Brian made a great one. Adding the ginger was an inspiration and it brought everything…

Vegan Simple Pea Soup

This simple pea soup is excellent cooked as well as raw! This can be used as a base for so many more vegetables too! Use your imagination and try…

Classic Cioppino

This is a traditional Cioppino base recipe for you to play with. Cioppino is a simple and hearty fish stew originally cooked by Italian fisherman…

Italian Spinach Soup

Suprise, surprise. Another amazing recipe adapted from Marcella Hazan's Essential's of Italian Cooking. This is one of my bibles. Not only did I…

Bistro Beef Stew

This warm and hearty stew is full of vegetable chunks, and tender beef chunks. Try serving is with warm French or sourdough bread, and a hearty…

Carolina Coast Shirmp Bog

A bog (unlike a pilau) is any stew that includes wet, soggy rice. This recipe was adapted from one of my favorite cookbooks, Stews, Bogs, and…

Healthy Mexican Chille

Hungarian Goulash (Gulyasleves)

Great for a cold winter day. Very comforting.