Category : Soups

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Tom Yum Goong (Thai soup with prawns)

Always fun to try something new! This recipe, our finale to Soup Week 2009, is spicy and mysterious. A grown-up version of an old favorite, the ubiquitous Ramen noodle bowl. Except this is nothing like that over-dried, over-salted mess, with its powdered “flavor” packet. Tom Yum Goong is a traditional Thai dish, made with hot [...]

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Vegetarian Mixed Bean Chili with Orange and Cumin

Wait, is chili a soup? For my purposes, I’m using “soup” as an umbrella term for “a really taste meal, mostly liquid, eaten with a spoon from a bowl or deep vessel.” Sounds impressive, right? But truly, there is a great difference between soups, chili, stews, bisques, chowders, hot soups, cold soups…it’s a variable meal. It [...]

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Helen’s Minestrone – for your health!

This is my sister Helen. She’s pretty much a zillion times cooler than me. Flawlessly beautiful, smart, and a fabulous musician and artist to boot. The girl has it going on – top of her class at cosmetology school by day, debate club at Princeton High School by night. This is her senior yearbook photo. Did you [...]

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Savory Pumpkin Apple Bisque

Yesterday was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. I know what you’re thinking: “But…this is Soup Week! How could anything go wrong? IT’S A WHOLE GLORIOUS WEEK OF SOUPS!” I know you guys, I know. Debbie Downer over here. But yesterday, no matter how hard I tried, everything went wrong. Eventually, when I accidentally spilled [...]

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Cauliflower Leek Soup

I am the only person I know who uses elaborate cooking projects to deal with insomnia. Can you picture it? Sometime near midnight and there I am, standing at the stove, browning things in butter. This kind of behavior was perfectly normal, in my eyes, when I lived alone. Hell, I could do it in [...]

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Corn and Vegetable Chowder

Don’t you just want to wrap yourself around this? To put on a sweater and get cozy? It’s chilly in England, finally time for light jackets and a bigger blanket on the bed. All I want at night (besides Flake bars) is a big bowl of soup and some Twinings Earl Grey. This recipe is [...]