From the category archives:

Soup

Cream of Asparagus Soup

by Sara on March 31, 2010

Every spring, I welcome the new crop of produce available at the market, as well as the flowers starting to poke through the soil in front of my condo: hyacinths, daffodils, and tulips all represent the beginning of spring to me.

I may not yet have flowers to enjoy, but I can at least start cooking. [...]

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Soupe Savoyarde

by Sara on February 8, 2010

For my next installment of French country cooking, I wanted something fairly simple, yet seasonal. This winter vegetable soup seemed perfect.
I had to trek to a couple of grocery stores to find celery root, though around here that’s not all that surprising. This soup is perfect for a cold winter’s night, and it will warm [...]

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Armenian Apricot Soup

by Sara on September 30, 2009

I’ve tried to like lentils. I really have. I even started my lentil adventures with soups, figuring lentils blended with other flavors might appeal to me more than just a dish of cooked lentils.
Or not.
In defense of lentils, it’s really the texture that I can’t handle more than the flavor, though I suspect I have [...]

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Chicken Noodle Soup

by Sara on September 1, 2009

After being sick for a week and consuming a diet of chicken soup and toast, I feared I wouldn’t have anything to post. And then I thought of the soup itself. It’s such a simple recipe, and you can take advantage of convenience items like rotisserie chicken and chicken stock when you really have no [...]

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