Readers’ Recipes And Requests

Do you have a recipe for Don Harper of Boissevain? He is looking for one to make soup with canned tomatoes. He’s looking for a recipe that might replicate the one he recalls his wife making. It was creamy in texture and included onions. Manitoba Co-operator Recipe Swap Box 1794 Carman, Man. R0G 0J0 or

Fiesta Chicken Soup

RECIPE SWAP I’m surprised that widely publicized list of items to stock up on in case flu hits doesn’t mention chicken soup. Sure, we need plenty of facial tissues and Tylenol around, and a thermometer too, but what’s to eat when illness strikes? The curative effects of chicken soup aren’t just folkloric. A few years


Legacy in a soup bowl

Beet borscht is a peasant soup enjoyed by most East European cultures. Recipes vary from region to region, family to family, and were passed down from mother to daughter as the generations sat together and prepared food in humble kitchens. My background is Ukrainian and I learned to make beet borscht from my baba (grandmother)