{"id":592,"date":"2004-10-20T00:53:57","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T07:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/zuppa\/"},"modified":"2004-10-20T00:53:57","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T07:53:57","slug":"zuppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/zuppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuppa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did I get it right?  The title?  I think that&#8217;s Italian for &#8220;Soup.&#8221;<br \/>\nAt any rate, it seems that soup is on my mind.  It <b>could<\/b> be that our chilly Fall days have something to do with that.  Too bad it&#8217;s supposed to be almost 70 by Friday, because I&#8217;m doing soup this week, anyway.<br \/>\nWhen I went to do the meal plans for this week, I decided that we needed to do a crock pot of &#8220;Pasta e fagioli.&#8221;  I have one of the recipes that strives to imitate the Pasta and Bean soup that Olive Garden serves.  It&#8217;s a great soup, but it makes enough soup for about forty people.  I plan on palming some off on family.  I could probably freeze half of it, but this is one soup I like served fresh.<br \/>\nThen, I was surfing for more recipes that are diabetic friendly, and came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diabetic-recipes.com\/recipes\/JAN99_5.2.htm\">&#8220;Spicy Seafood and Chicken Gumbo with Rice.&#8221;  <\/a>This recipe is supposedly for just six servings, but it has a pound of shrimp, 4 oz of crab meat,  1 cup of cooked chicken and a pound of okra, among other things.  I think there will be six very big servings, but I&#8217;m going to follow the recipe exactly, the first time. We&#8217;ll have it for dinner (checking my watch)&#8230;today.<br \/>\nAnd, I&#8217;ve been meaning to make butternut squash soup for several weeks.  The recipe I saved from a newspaper, years ago, has a roasted red pepper <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=coulis\">coulis <\/a>that is swirled through the finished soup.  I&#8217;m looking forward to trying this one, and I hope it becomes one of the staple soups in my repertoire.<br \/>\nMy oldest sister and I were having lunch together for the first time in ages.  They had &#8220;Navy Bean Soup&#8221; on the menu, and she ordered it, thinking it would be like my version.  Unfortunately, it was a tomato-veggie soup with white beans.  She was not impressed.  I promised her that I would make a pot of it for her.  I need a ham bone, or ham hocks, a pound of navy beans, onion, celery, a potato, bay leaf, thyme, a quart or two of water&#8230;..  Maybe I better get started.<br \/>\nI have one more soup recipe to find.  It seems to me that it would be a good idea to have a hot vegetable beef soup on hand on really cold days when Dear Husband gets home from battling the weather and work.  It would tide him over until I can get dinner on the table, and it would give him one more serving of veggies.  I want to find one that has a great beef broth, and a LOT of veggies in it.  The heat alone should help to revive him, but I want him to enjoy the taste, too.  If you have a great veggie soup recipe, let me know, won&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I get it right? The title? I think that&#8217;s Italian for &#8220;Soup.&#8221; At any rate, it seems that soup is on my mind. It could be that our chilly Fall days have something to do with that. Too bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/zuppa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}