This is an easy appetizer I've made for years. Creamy ricotta cheese provides the background for sweet roasted red peppers. Add some peppery arugula for a different flavour and a salute to the Italian flag - highlighting red, white and green. The toppings work beautifully with traditional crostini or with pan-fried polenta for gluten-intolerant friends and family - Emily Richards (from Per La Famiglia - Memories and Recipes of Southern Italian Home Cooking)
This soup is a special enough for the Thanksgiving table or a delicious weeknight dinner with warm soft bread pretzels for dipping or serving alongside. It's bursting with robust, sweet and savoury flavours and really when can you go wrong when you combine bacon + apples + cider + Cheddar. It's the definition of fall comfort food and guaranteed to get rave reviews.
Put all that fresh produce to good use in this summer corn and zucchini soup. It's thick, creamy and full of veggies. This soup freezes well, so make sure to freeze some so you can enjoy a taste of summer once the weather gets a little cooler.
First and foremost, a tian, is not a recipe, but an oven-proof earthenware baking dish. By extension, everything baked in that dish is called a tian. The Provencal tian is certainly the best known: It consists of vegetables, often zucchini, tomatoes and eggplants.