Soup, poached eggs are 2 perfect recipes for asparagus season

There are two things I always make during asparagus season: Soup, and grilled asparagus with poached egg. The recipe for the soup comes from Julia Child. It is very easy to make, utterly delicious hot or cold, and has a gorgeous pale green color. The grilled asparagus recipe is something I’ve recreated from a dish I first tasted in Sardinia more than 40 years ago.

Superb soups

Fill up your freezer with soups this weekend and whip them out for a mid-week lunch or dinner, writes Sarah McInerney.

Heloise: Reader adds suggestion to recipe for 'stretch' soup

DEAR HELOISE: I read your hint about adding rice, noodles or macaroni to "stretch" soup to make it more of a meal, and I had to pass along my suggestion. Cook the rice or pasta separately, then add it to the soup at serving time.

Dinner tonight!: Avocado gazpacho

Are you starting to switch out your winter recipes for your summer ones, now that summer is finally around the corner? Check out this recipe for avocado gazpacho.

Flavor for fever: Chicken cure for a cold

Stuck in the house the past four days with a lousy cold, I decided to use my ounce of energy to cook something delicious, even if I couldn’t taste it. The fact that I wanted to cook something more complicated than soup from a can was encouraging.