Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Blog Tour for Booktoure

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Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Synopsis: "Make sure you wrap up warm for school, honey. A blizzard is on the way." Ten-year-old Teddy rolls his eyes at his mother. But then he hears a bang... By the time police arrive, Teddy's mother is dead. His open school backpack is strewn across the hallway. And Teddy is nowhere to be found.   When gunshots ring out from an exclusive family home on the edge of Northern Pine Lake,  Agent Tori Hunter  races through the gathering snowstorm to discover that  ten-year-old Teddy Marist has disappeared . His mother and her new boyfriend are dead in the family kitchen, breakfast still cooking on the stove. And racing to track down Teddy's father,  Tori finds he is missing too.   Local police are certain this is a simple case of a jealous ex-husband turned violent over his recent divorce. But interviewing everyone she can about Teddy's father, Tori's gut has her questioning if he would really kidnap his own child?  An...
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Every Season is Soup Season by Shelly Westerhausen Worcel

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Title: Every Season is Soup Season
Author: Shelly Westerhausen Worcel
Genre: Cookbook
Format: Kindle
No. of Pages: 288
Date of Publication: September 19, 2023

Description: From the author of the bestselling Platters and Boards comes this versatile collection of 85+ go-to recipes for soups, soup fixings, and more. Plus 100 beautiful photos that will make you instantly crave a luscious bowl of soup! Every day is a good day for soup!

From broths and gazpachos to chowders and chilis, this flexible cookbook is overflowing with scrumptious soups for every season. These simple base recipes for healthy, yummy soups are easy to prepare and so satisfying. And the best part? You can riff on them endlessly with toppings and fixings—add mini meatballs, grilled cheese croutons, or a handful of grains. Or transform yesterday’s soup into an entirely new dish: Carrot-Orange-Ginger Soup becomes a savory breakfast oatmeal; leftover Tomato-Watermelon Gazpacho makes a pitcher of Bloody Marias; French Onion Soup is reinvented as a bubbling, golden strata!

Soup lovers, healthy eaters, and busy parents and professionals will love these veggie-forward recipes that never get old and make weeknight cooking a breeze. Tips for batching and freezing soups and instructions for using an Instant Pot or a slow cooker ensure stress-free meals, with less time in the kitchen and more time at the table. With gorgeous photography and a bonus section on soup accompaniments (think breads, salads, and slaws), Every Season Is Soup Season is a one-stop-shop cookbook. Everyday soups have never been so simple—or so incredibly delicious. 

My Thoughts: The title and the cover is the first thing that caught my eye. The soups look so delicious that I just had to give this cookbook a try. It's winter time where I am right now, Australia, which is weird to say since it is July and I am used to it being Summer. A nice soup is good sounding and tasting when the weather is a bit cold, especially with the high winds we have been having. A good soup warms you all the way through the bones.

The Table of Contents organizes all the soups by Season, which is something that I have not seen before. It also includes a section for soup enhancers and accompaniments. There were not a lot of soups in the cookbook that I found I wanted to try, but a few such as the roasted tomato soup, smoked paprika tortilla soup, french onion soup, and cream of asparagus to name a few. I am not a super adventurous person when it comes to my soups, I like them basic where I can taste everything and some of these were just too much for me or we couldn't try as they contain peanuts.

Each recipe comes with a picture and the pictures make you want to eat the soup right out of the book. You really do eat with your eyes first in this case. Just looking at the pictures make me hungry. The recipes are easy to follow and for the most part they include ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry. I enjoyed that the ingredients included were primarily fresh whole ingredients including the homemade vegetable broth recipe that is included. My family and I are trying to eat less processed foods and this cookbook makes that easier.

The recipes included in the book will have quick fix suggestions, alternative cooking method instructions such as using a pressure cooker, and instructions for how to store. The author makes sure that these items are easy to identify by the use of the pointing finger or the brightly colored box for the quick fix suggestions. 

There are no nutritional information, which is something that I wish all cookbooks had in additional to pictures. It does give you the approximate servings for each recipe, which is always helpful to know. There are some random photos of landscaping or people, which I felt was unnecessary for a cookbook.

Rating: 3 out of 5 because I am certainly going to give some of these recipes a try. I just wish they had the nutritional information. As mentioned above, I also felt that there were some unnecessary photos.

Many thanks to Chronicle Books and Netgalley for this review copy. This is my honest opinion.

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