Spiced Homemade Tomato Soup w/ Lime Cream
Homemade tomato soup! So easy to make. So fun to play with different flavors. This version has Indian spices and a tangily fresh lime zest and yogurt cream. It’s a little bit different from straight up tomato soup. Maybe even better.
Read More...Tales Of A Leftover Chicken: Staying Off My Feet & Simply Silky Squash Soup
On Monday we had a bit of a scare. I started having contractions, painless at first, then a little pain. When they became regularly spaced at 4 minutes apart we jumped into the car and headed for the hospital. I’m only 32 weeks pregnant so we were seriously hoping that the baby was not coming [...]
Read More...Corn and Chipotle Soup Might Help. Will You Make Me Some?
He jogs up the field, a zig, a zag, oops a tumble but then he’s up again and in position. The ball streaks toward his outstretched hands as the crowd goes nuts. Yes! He caught it! A proud parent jumps up and claps. Not me. I was not the proud parent at the Y’s Itty [...]
Read More...Tales of a Leftover Chicken Episode I: Soup to Feel Better About the News
I haven’t been feeling great lately. I have bronchitis. Worse. yesterday morning I woke up to disappointing news from my home country. I’m not going to get into the details here because: it’s way too upsetting and I don’t want to ruin your day; it’s very political – I’ll wait until we know each other [...]
Read More...A Korean Stew to Soothe Any Cold (Jaden Hair’s Spicy Korean Tofu Stew)
At Food Blog Forum Orlando last weekend I won an amazing prize: Jaden Hair‘s The Steamy Kitchen: 101 Asian Recipes Simple Enough for Tonight’s Dinner. When I got home my little J came down with a fever and cough. My own followed. I wasn’t in the mood to cook, let alone sample new dishes. Or [...]
Read More...Wrapping Up the Box: Empty the Fridge Soup and Frozen Fruit Smash
This is the last post in the series What’s in the Box? Tips for Dealing with Your Weekly Produce Box. I’m sad that it has come to an end. It’s been such fun sharing my organic improvisations with you while also reading your fantastic tips for how you get through your boxes of fruit and [...]
Read More...Unambiguously Baked Baked Potato Soup
I squinted down at the bowlful of white glop in front of me then up at the waitress. I asked, “Where’s the cheese?” “What cheese?” “The cheese! The cheese! How can you have baked potato soup without cheese?” She looked at me like I was nuts. “We don’t put cheese on our baked potatoes so [...]
Read More...Pepper Jack Soup from the Falcon Lake Deli
Soup-making is something that I just know how to do. Why? I grew up surrounded by soup-simmering and soup-eating. Tomato Beef Barleys and Chicken Noodles warmed my childhood. Vegetarian Borscht Dappled with Heavy Cream appeared in the spring and returned to freshen Ukrainian Christmas Eve (a meatier version was ladled daily at the Perogy Patch). [...]
Read More...The Pittmans’ Restaurants
The following text appears on the cover of the Pittman’s on 44 menu. I wrote it a few years ago when my brother and his wife took over the restaurant from my parents. (Items in parentheses are my added comments and do not appear on their menu.) Pittman’s On 44 is where it all began [...]
Read More...“Oh Sh*t, My Bowl is Empty. That Sucks!” Soup
(a.k.a. Smokey Soup with Some Shrimp, Some Sausage, Some Barley AND SOME HEAT) While jumping up and down to Raise Your Glass by P!nk in a Zumba class, my New Year’s resolution changed from, “This year I will exercise more, eat healthier, eat less, blah, blah, blah” to “This year I will do things that [...]
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