Soup's On!

We're working our way through The Clean Plates Cookbook — recipes using fresh, healthy, sustainable-but-not-out-of-reach ingredients. This warming winter tomato soup is easy to pull off and is perfect for those winter tomatoes you wouldn't dare eat raw.

Don’t be frightened by the addition of orange juice; it breathes new life into this classic comfort food. Topped with cheese toasts— as if your grilled cheese jumped into your soup—it’s the perfect bridge between old and new. A perfect start to a more formal dinner or great as a light meal with a simple green salad.

Yes, gazpacho is great, but after slurping the stuff all summer, I needed a break from the cold tomato concoction. Enter cacık (pronounced JAH-jek), another hot-weather favorite. The Turkish cold soup is basically a tzatzki thinned out to a soup-like consistency. Just when you thought tzatzki couldn't get any better.