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Posts tagged “Soup”

Recipe: Ratatouille

Ratatouille is the quintessential late-summer dish. Not only does it make short work of extra produce, but it fills your kitchen with such a comforting and homey aroma that you might never want to lea...

From The Email: Easy Gazpacho To Make This Weekend

A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers on August 14th when tomato season was just starting for us. To receive Sara Kate's weekly email, sign up in the column to the left o...

Weeknight Recipe: 30-Minute Chicken Posole

Posole is everything we love about southwestern cuisine. It's fresh and light, spicy and cool, crunchy and chewy: all in one bowl! With summer escapes on the brain, we offer this recipe as a quick wee...

Japanese Cooking: Dashi

Dashi is an essential staple of Japanese kitchens and one of the easiest soup stocks to make. Since it's so easy to make, most Japanese cooks make it when they need it, rather than making a batch ahe...

Recipe: Fridge Clearing Avocado Soup

I was chatting with Melissa Clark last week while touring her kitchen for an upcoming Kitchen Tour, and I asked her how she would describe her cooking style. One of her answers was "refrigerator clea...

Recipe: Chilled Buttermilk Soup for Hot Summer Days

When summer’s heat arrives, it’s hard to to think of preparing, much as less eating, hot food. We want something cool, quick and refreshing. We also want to use the fresh bounty that starts fill...

Seasonal Recipe: Chilled Pea Soup with Radish and Mango Relish

What an interesting, fleeting time of year this is. Will it be hot or cold tomorrow, spring or summer? A bouquet of fading peonies captures this moment and inspired a recipe which pays homage to the...

Recipe Recommendation: Celery Root Bisque

Packaged celery root bisque, out of the ice bath and ready for the freezer! Yesterday we talked about celery root, and today we're going to share a tasty recipe for celery root bisque. Read on ......

Recipe: Quick and Easy Black Bean Soup

When held up against the fresh, mouth-watering produce at farmer's markets, canned foods can definitely pale in comparison (to say the least). But they have their time and place too! This soup recipe...

Recipe: Borscht

We might lose our foodie card for telling you this, but we don't really like beets very much. There's something about their earthy flavor that's a bit off-putting. BUT, we love borscht.That earthine...

Seasonal Recipe: Nettle Soup

Last week at the Ferry Building Farmer's Market, we picked a bag of fresh stinging nettles. ...

Recipe: Spring Leek and Lemon Soup

In with spring and out with winter - but don't let go of your winter citrus just yet. This soup bridges the divide between fresh spring produce and the zip of winter citrus like oranges, lemons, and g...

Recipe: Clean-Out-the-Pantry Pumpkin, Peanut, & Ginger Soup

We're getting a head start on the spring Kitchn Cure, looking at our pantry and freezer with a skeptical eye. What are the foods that we won't want to eat in a month's time, when the greenmarkets are ...

Recipe: New England Fish Chowder

It's no secret that New Englanders have a particular reverence for chowders of all kinds, and on dreary winter days like those we've been getting, there's nothing we crave more. And with good reason...

Recipe: Mushroom Soup

Earthy mushroom soup is one of our favorite fall meals. After trying several recipes, we settled on this one as a favorite and we come back to it again and again. It's adapted from a recipe by Antho...

Recipe: Ajiaco (Chicken and Potato) Soup

Soup for crisp cool evenings and afternoons too. Ajiaco is a traditional Columbian soup made from chicken and potatoes and an herb called Guascas. It's often made with three varieties of potatoes, a...

Recipe: Zucchini Garlic Soup

Soup weather is on its way, and we just cooked up our first pot of the fall. This soup is so creamy and silky - it tastes like it's full of cream. But it doesn't have a drop of dairy, except for a l...

Recipe: Creamy Leek and Yogurt Soup

Soup in the summer can be very cooling and refreshing, especially when it's served slightly cool or at room temperature. Here's a light, easy soup we recently enjoyed. It has all the fresh, delicate...

Recipe: Sweet Potato Soup with Miso and Ginger

Creamy sweet potatoes, spicy ginger, and sweet and salty miso all meet in this easy, delicious soup that we've been enjoying the last few days. Technically it's a braise - the potatoes are lightly f...

Recipe: Chickpea and Chorizo Soup

This really hit the spot for us last night. Chorizo, the Spanish pork sausage flavored with smoked paprika and chilies, has a spicy, robust flavor that just permeates this soup. Onions, garlic, thy...

Recipe: Creamy Black-Eyed Pea Soup with Cumin and Thyme

I was so inspired by all the responses to my first Cupboard Challenge. A dip had never crossed my mind, nor a casserole. It's amazing what you can do with four ingredients! In the end, I had about 1...

Recipe: Quick Onion Soup

French onion soup is one of my favorite meals; there's something about the gooey cheese hanging out of the spoonfuls of rich onion broth, just oozing with delicious winter comfort. Fortunately, onio...

Recipe: Spicy Sweet Potato & Carrot Soup

This soup has an earthy sweetness and a comfortable heat that builds as you make your way through the bowl. Its a basic recipe that can be adapted using any vegetable that takes well to pureing. Try...

Recipe: Easy Green Minestrone

Sometimes you just want to sit cross-legged on the couch and eat a big bowl of hot soup. Something simple, comforting, hot. Something good. You need a homemade bowl of soup and you dont want to go to...

Recipe: Easy Turkey Tortilla Soup

After a day spent indulging in butter, cream, dessert and lots and lots of starch, Im looking for something clean tasting and zesty to eat. Heres a super simple soup for your leftover turkey (or chi...