If you want to add more flavor to your meatless cooking, a good vegetable stock will help. But I bet you didn't realize that it is a controversial brew. Not in the news-generating, social-media frenzied sense. More in the nit-picky, grammary sense. The issue revolves around … [Read more...]
Meatless Monday: Pear and Parsnip Soup
If you are trying to eat seasonally and live anywhere near the east coast of North America, there's a good chance you might be getting a bit tired of carrots and cabbage (or at least that day is clearly visible on the horizon). Pear and Parsnip Soup is what you need. This classic … [Read more...]
East Coast Corn Chowder
Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another. ~Anne Raver A chowder is a thick soup made with milk or cream. It is chunky … [Read more...]
Simple Creamy Tomato Basil Soup
Where I live, a tomato in winter has either been trucked a few thousand kilometers or grown captive in a greenhouse. It's not something to get too excited about. I'm all for canned at this time of year, and use them in this Simple Creamy Tomato Basil Soup. The basil isn't fresh … [Read more...]
Sweet Potato & Red Lentil Soup with Coconut
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter … [Read more...]