I make rich winter soups all the time, with whatever I have on hand. I even have a couple of varieties in the freezer, but they have been there so long I can’t remember what they are. Why deprive myself of the joy of hot soup cooking on a cold winter afternoon?
September 16, 2009
Vegetable Soup with Chicken Kneidlach (Dumplings)
Today’s recipe comes from Abbi of Confessions of a Startup Wife. See her blog for more recipes.
This is a lighter take on chicken vegetable soup that doesn’t take hours to make but you still get the chicken-y taste and feel of the “real thing”. It’s a nice dinner for mid week or quickie Friday night when you don’t have a lot of guests. It also takes kindly to improvisation.
July 30, 2009
Caldo Verde: Portuguese Cabbage Soup
My Portuguse/Israeli friend Betzalel sent me his mother’s cabbage soup recipe. It only has four ingredients, not counting water. When you have almost nothing in the house but want a quick nutritious soup, this is a good one to try. He didn’t include quantities. I think they are rather flexible. I would start by covering the potatoes […]
July 27, 2009
Ten Ways to Cook a Turnip
This headline from the Tuscaloosa News, The Real Food Challenge: Ten Ways to Cook a Turnip, made my “ears” perk up. The post turned out to be about the challenge of learning to cook with unfamiliar vegetables the author finds at the local farmer’s market. I decided to help her out with a list of ten ways to serve turnips, one of my favorite foods. Turnips are cheap, nutritious and easy to grow.
April 3, 2009
My Mother’s Re-Recycled Meat Soup
My mother served soup at every meal. For Friday night dinner, she served clear chicken broth with noodles. For dairy meals, she opened a can of tomato or mushroom. But her meat soups were the foundation of her cooking system. What was in the soup? Hard to say. Probably some chicken broth, and odd bits […]
