Kierstin followed her brother by a week and appeared on a cool afternoon to make soup and biscuits. She seems to enjoy the process more than her brother, maybe because she’s older. I was in a bit of a dither when she arrived, since moving my office furniture got delayed until cooking day due to […]
Entries Tagged as 'soup'
You can still fix soup, even after it’s done
January 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Food preparation, recipes
Two celeries In an attempt not to get into the same-soups rut I created last year, I decided to make Double Celery Soup, which I hadn’t made for years and recalled being quite enthusiastic about. I stopped at the store when I was in transit from one spot to another and bought a celery root […]
Curried Butternut Squash Soup fits with season
December 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Food preparation, Healthy eating, recipes
Soup season is definitely here. I have several favorite soups (Butternut Vegetable Soup, Lentil Soup and Tuscan Five-Bean Soup come to mind), but I decided I needed to try something I hadn’t made before, Curried Butternut Squash Soup. It was an easy choice because (a) I have all that end-of-market squash in the basement and […]
Sign of the season: first soup and a quiz!
October 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments · recipes, Tools
I broke out the soup pot the other day about the time I turned on the furnace for a little while. By the end of the day, the house was still fragrant from the chicken soup, my belly was warm with it, and I had excellent leftovers in the refrigerator, too. This is a wonderful […]
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It’s Tuscany in my kitchen
January 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Food preparation, recipes
I can at least imagine it’s Tuscany in my kitchen, having just cleaned up from a delicious dinner of Tuscan Five-Bean Soup, from Patricia Wells’s Trattoria cookbook and Tuscan Bread, from a cookbook long ago borrowed and returned. This simple bean soup is really delicious and pretty—at least until it’s cooked. See some of the […]