Red Cabbage and White Bean Soup
Comforting flavors for a cold and blustery day, an old standby adapted pretty liberally from Marcella Hazen’s The Classic Italian […]
Waste Not Want Not: Using Bean Broth
Stewing pots of dried beans and chickpeas and lentils all winter yields nutritious legume broth that is simply too good […]
Dark Days 13: Root Soup with Cheese Wafers and Slaw
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For […]
Pumpkin, Tomato and Chickpea Soup with Ras el Hanout
Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say. This afternoon, I needed to clean out our freezer and my […]
Dark Days 11: Scallop and Cabbage Chowder
A continuing series on weekly meals that use sustainable, organic, local and ethical food during the challenging winter months. For […]
Curried Mussel Chowder
Spices create warm depth of flavor and comfort that are welcome in winter. With plentiful potatoes, sweet potatoes and onions […]
Lentil Soup with Sweet Potatoes and Chard
I am returning to earth-mother mode now that holiday excesses are receding. Other than local fare, which we are committed […]
Greatest Hits of 2011
So what clicked the most with my readers this year? A few conspicuous trends, heavy on the cannin’ and jammin’ […]
Spinach and Ginger Soup
Cleansing, comforting, there’s nothing like ginger to ease you from last year to next. Restorative and regenerative as opposed to […]
Cauliflower Soup with Bacon and Hazelnuts
I’m a great fan of Nigel Slater so whenever he comes up with an unexpected combination, I know it will […]
Dark Days Week 1: Turkey Hash and Parsnip-Pear Soup
Last year’s Dark Day Challenge was so enlightening that I’m excited to do it again. Every week from the end […]
Roasted Cauliflower and Leek Soup with Cheese Dipping Sticks
Cauliflower is among the few local crops that astonishingly have flourished despite the horribly wet growing season that rotted the […]
Waste Not Want Not: Roast Chicken Stock, Escarole and Lettuce Soup
Every time I roast a chicken, I make stock from the carcass, stripping the bones of the last shreds of […]
November: a Birthday, Pumpkins and a Spiced Pumpkin Soup
This blog has just turned two years old. It started as a birthday gift to me from e, with a […]
Waste Not Want Not: Carrot and Celeriac Roots and Greens as Puree and/or Soup
When the first fresh carrots and celeriac show up at our CSA or Farmers’ Market, the greens are young and […]
Okra, Green Bean and Chard Soup
Sometimes you just have to suspend your disbelief. Or maybe just put your trust in a proven source. This silken […]
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