Pantry Cooking, Soup, Starters, Vegetarian
On Tomato Soups and Blizzards (Sopa de Fideo Aguada)
What is it about blizzards that makes me long to cook the tomato soups of my childhood? Last year around this time, a blizzard inspired me ...
Oh My Once, Oh My Twice, Oh My Oh Chicken Soup with(out) Rice
As part of my Olympian preparations for Wednesday’s torture (leading up to Thursday’s entirely different torture), I made a big pot of chicken soup ...
Books, Soup, Starters, Vegetarian
Food Is Love: Cold Cucumber Soup
S has been having a hard time recently—the family emergency I mentioned last week was his, and it continues—so I wanted to do something ...
Mains, Quick Suppers, Recipes, Sides, Soup, Starters, Vegetarian
Tomato Tomato Tomato (A Week of Vegetables)
Yesterday was Day 3 of A Week of Vegetables. (I didn’t write about Day 2 because it consisted largely of leftovers from Day 1. ...
Nap-Friendly Recipes, Soup, Starters, Vegetarian, Weight Watchers
A Week of Vegetables for Dinner
After yet another disappointing Saturday morning at Weight Watchers (I stayed the same, even though last Sunday’s dinner at The Queen’s Hideaway was my ...
Beef Barley Soup
I’m not much of a beef eater. If you’ve been reading Words to Eat By at all regularly, you may have noticed a distinct lack of ...
Clean-Out-the-Fridge Lentil Soup with Turkey Meatballs
I brought home a pile of freelance work to do today, and it took longer than I expected to finish it. When I finally turned off ...
Nap-Friendly Recipes, Recipes, Soup
Is My Blog Burning? Farro & White Bean Soup with Escarole
Ahh, the humble bean. What ingredient is more disparaged, yet more versatile? Sure, you might get a little, umm, musical after, but isn’t it ...
Breakfast, One-Handed Meals, Soup, Vegetarian
Cookooning in a Blizzard (with Frittata and Tomato-Rice Soup)
Don’t know ‘bout you, but here in lovely Brooklyn we’re snowed in. It started around 11:30 this morning and it’s been quietly blanketing us all day—they ...
Ode on a Bowl of Split-Pea Soup
I am blue,
stir-crazy against forbidding cold.
Dinner time approaches. No plan has been
made.
Humble split peas rattle, jarred.
Onion, carrot, celery, parsnip. Bacon.
Twenty minutes later bubbling, thickening.
Time passes, deep ...