For years now, my go-to gazpacho recipe has been an adaptation of one from José Andrés, and it’s a really solid recipe. (I just don’t go through with all of the toppings that he puts on top of his, because usually I don’t have time for that.) It’s one of my default summertime dishes, something…
Category: soups
Roasted carrot and ginger soup, thoughts on Thanksgiving, and ways to pay it forward.
It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is this week; on one hand it feels like fall just started, but on the other this cold streak we’re having here in MD (plus the general trend of Christmas Creep) makes it feel like we’re already in December? It’s a little disconcerting, but I guess it’s time…
White gazpacho redux from Bourdain’s Appetites: A Cookbook.
I actually made this back in January when entertaining a friend who was staying with us for the night, and she was so excited when I told her about my resolution for the year that she asks me how I’m doing on it and that’s one of the reasons that finally compelled me to write…
Pressure-cooker pho ga, because you definitely need some chicken soup right now.
So how are you all doing? Last week was incredibly rough (if you follow me on Instagram you know who I voted for), and it’s taken me some days to process it all. I’ve been writing every day, but I couldn’t bring myself to write about food until the weekend. Instead, I’ve been writing to…
Celebrating spring with Canal House Cooking’s oysters with sausage and chilled avocado-cucumber soup.
Despite the fact that the temperatures were barely cracking 40 degrees and snow was predicted to fall up in New England, there was no way I wasn’t going to let the first day of spring go by without marking it in some substantial way. I ended up flipping through my Canal House Cooking books, and…
07.07.13: appetizer (gazpacho andaluz/gaspatxo andalús)
One of the things that was challenging during our trip to Barcelona last year was trying to stay well-hydrated. We’d be the obnoxious Americans carrying around the giant 1.5 liter bottles of mineral water (sin gas) while we walked and went sightseeing, but the weather was warm, even for the first day of fall. Even…
03.24.13: tapas (pollo con ajo, ajo blanco de malagueño, y rossejat de gambetes i aiolli)
Yes, that’s a whole mess of Spanish and Català up there in the post title. No, I make no apologies. This meal was a bit ambitious for us, even for a Sunday night: in the mood for some delicious José Andrés-style tapas after hearing about Michael’s visit to Zaytinya during his recent trip to DC. Picking…
MAMSM: Basque-style mussel and white bean stew.
I know the first post in this series was for an agua fresca, but I should make it clear that juicing is not something we do at all, but every once in a while I’ll crave something sweet and light and that fresh drink mix does the trick nicely. But then I see things like this…
01.02.10: dinner (spicy black bean soup with a Spanish twist).
Oh January, we meet again. Now that the holidays are over, New York has a tendency to descend into its winter-long hibernation. No one wants to do anything because it’s either snowing, has snowed or is just too damn cold outside, so you can either pull on the Hunter boots and see what’s…
11.28.10: dinner (stracciatella and fritatta, inspired in part by Nigella)
I have to say that I kind of love the habit of coming home after a weekend trip to Pennsylvania and indulging in a soup and an eggy dish. We did it back in August with gazpacho and our ugly-but-delicious tortilla, and after Thanksgiving we toasted to our uneventful Amtrak ride with lovely stracciatella and…
