We’re big fans of tomato soup around here. We particularly like it on cold winter days, even though it’s the time of year when tomatoes are anemic and mealy. I think the secret to great tomato soup is canned tomatoes – even in the summer, at the height of tomato season. Canned tomatoes have the [...]
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My Best of 2012 list was long and difficult to narrow down. Larry and I had a spirited discussion about what made the cut and what didn’t. At the end, we were left with eleven items that needed to be on our final favorites list. There was a lot of good food last year, though. [...]
I’m a big, big fan of cashew cream. I love cream and dairy too, but there’s something about soups made with cashew cream that’s special. It’s simple to make – just cashews, soaked, then blended up with more water. I make a big batch and freeze it in baggies so I always have it on [...]
This was one hundred percent a Larry dinner. We’re both suffering from the flu, and I’ve got an ear infection on top of it, so we’ve been living mostly on pho from a local restaurant. Larry decided he was tired of take-out, and since we have a ton of beets right now from our farm [...]
Some people celebrated Easter or Passover this past week. But today is our holiday, National Grilled Cheese Day. And it was a great day for it too – windy, cold and stormy. There isn’t anything particularly special about making the sandwiches – a liberal coating of salty butter (Kerrygold, to be specific – it’s very [...]
I wasn’t sure how this soup was going to turn out. EatingWell is pretty reliable, but I’m not a mushroom fan – particularly dried, reconstituted shiitakes. But I had tofu and cabbage and carrots and some pre-cooked chow mein noodles so I went for it. This was actually a pretty good choice, given the damp, [...]
Even though we’ve had a pretty mild, warm winter here in the SF Bay Area, I’m still compelled to make soups. And we love lentils. This isn’t an ordinary lentil soup. It uses quick-cooking red lentils and has curry spices – turmeric, cumin, mustard seed. Lightly sautéed spinach is added at the end, but I [...]
This is a quick, simple soup. I used a Japanese vegetable broth; soy sauce and sesame oil are added for richness and flavor, but the broth on its own isn’t very substantial. The perfect addition to this is smoked trout – Trader Joe’s sells it in little tins, which makes it easy to transport as [...]
This soup seemed like it would be quick and easy on first glance – how hard is it to make a creamy squash soup? It turned out that it was easy but not quick. Delicata squash are roasted with butter, pepitas are toasted, butter is browned, vegetables are chopped and sautéed. An apple and some [...]
We like lentils, but the driving force behind this hearty soup was to use up some of the bounty of butternut squash in the pantry. Tomatoes add flavor and body, and I love the bit of smoked paprika that’s added. I think smoked paprika is one of the most underrated ingredients around (along with harissa). [...]
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