I was really disturbed by the deep chill that rolled in to the northwest Piedmont on Thanksgiving and then lingered for almost three weeks. But if daytime temps are gonna remain in the low 30s on a Tuesday in early December, I’ll just go ahead and rail against it with a hearty pot of bacon cheeseburger soup. Well-seasoned and happily herbed, built from a Marsala-spiked mirepoix base, meaty with beef and bacon, populated with potatoes and with cheeses that pleases: our steaming bowls were eagerly attacked while a grey afternoon light barely penetrated the kitchen nook.
But kitchen pursuits were not wholly concluded with dinner cleanup, especially since that was National Pastry Day and I had something on my mind to prepare for it. While one is guaranteed of a far superior result if creating cream cheese danish pastries from scratch, as I did back in 2021, the trade-off involved in shortcutting the process with storebought refrigerated puff pastry does still have its compensations. That's how I handled dessert last Tuesday evening, knowing we were pretty full from that delicious soup, and still craving something sweet to finish up the night.
Based on "Bacon Cheeseburger Soup," from Catalina Castravet and Holly Nilsson of SpendwithPennies.com. [Published 01 March 2018]
"Starbucks Cheese Danish (Better Than the Coffee Shop Version!)," by Chahinez Tabet Aoul of Lifestyle of a Foodie. [Updated 11 October 2025]
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