Michael spent much of the second week of November in Phoenix at a conference, and I didn’t go along with him this time because he was technically staying at a resort in Scottsdale, and it didn’t seem worth spending all that time on a plane to just wander around a resort, however nice it was….
Category: soups
Celery root soup with apples and Hawaji from the Zahav cookbook.
Now that it is unmistakably fall, I’m trying to deal with it by embracing autumnal dishes, including soups. Michael isn’t the biggest fan of soup, but I’ve made inroads with him thanks to how refreshing gazpacho is during the summer. That said, when it comes to cold-weather soups, I need to show him something compelling…
Frozen pea soup from José Andrés’ Vegetables Unleashed.
As I write this, spring is coming to a close but you would be forgiven for thinking it’s already summer by how hot it is in various parts of the country. Hot weather always makes me want to eat raw fish or fish that’s been cooked in acid and sip on cold soups. While gazpachos…
Tender chickpea stew with a little help from Koita almond milk, a pressure cooker, and a fourteenth-century Catalonian cookbook.
Disclosure: I was sent a case of Koita Foods almond milk and almond-coconut milk to sample and review, and all opinions are my own. One of my favorite bits from any episode of Nigella Lawson’s many cooking shows is when she takes a moment to stand in front of her wall-to-wall bookcase teeming with cookbooks….
José Andrés’s avocado gazpacho from Vegetables Unleashed with a pickle-based pico de gallo from Grillo’s Pickles
(Note: this is not sponsored–I’m just utterly charmed by this product!) Between the end of summer and Amazon Photo sending me memories from our trips to Barcelona and San Sebastian on a regular basis last week, this is always a bit of a melancholy time of year for me. Given the last six months of…
Pantry cooking with Stephanie Izard: chilled sweet onion soup.
Probably the biggest score I made when doing a stocking-up grocery trip two Fridays ago was to get six pounds of frozen shrimp for the price of two, thanks to the Teet’s buy one, get two special. We polished off the first bag that Sunday, and then I decided to use another pound this week…
Month two check-in on my 2020 cookbook project, along with Jerusalem artichoke and orange soup from The Mezze Cookbook.
February is over, and this Sunday marks the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, so it finally feels like we’re getting close to shirking off the mantle of winter. Here in the Mid-Atlantic, we’ve had a seemingly endless succession of grey, somber days, with the added insult of having barely any snow to justify it. At…
Garlic soup, Basque-style, from Basque Country.
With winter starting officially as of this past Saturday, I’m finding myself seriously craving some soup. I’m more than ready to make some pressure cooker pho, pasta e fagioli, and even some carrot-ginger soup in the next few weeks, but the soup I am planning to make before all of those is a Basque-style soup…
Making gazpacho in February, or: what to do when fresh tomatoes are not at their best.
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…
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…
The Manhattan [food] Project 