Apples and Butter (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The first soup of fall is a highly anticipated event at my house - at least by me. I’m not certain that anyone else even notices that rich, warm soups have been missing from the menu for months. For Southern California residents like myself, it takes a certain finesse to know when the time is right for that first soup. Though the first official day of fall was September 22, the ninety degree...
veganjoy (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
I know what you're thinking, and you're right: it's hardly the season for a light, fruity soup. But maybe I can change your mind. A few weeks ago, I made this as part of a Labor-Inducing Dinner for a friend who was desperately ready to have her baby. Pineapple contains enzymes that prepare the body for labor, and has an almost mythic heritage of encouraging it, so this was the perfect choice. Then...
A Southern Grace (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Never in a million years would I have expected the sweet, subtle flavor of tomatoes to morph into something with such a wallop-packing punch after just a few hours of cooking down. Explosive, I tell you. Dy-no-mite. I returned from Pennsylvania with a load of tomatoes from my grandpa's garden, and although I tried my hardest to eat them before they turned to the dark side, I eventually accepted that...
burbmom.net (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Gazpacho is the perfect no cook soup! It’s served cold, so you don’t have to heat up your kitchen making it. Plus, gazpacho is an excellent thing to make to use up the leftovers tomatoes from your garden! I’ve tried a couple different gazpacho recipes, but this particular one is my VERY favorite. Warning: this recipe has [...]
vegan cookbook critic (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Since May I have been involved in testing recipes for Viva Vegan , Terry Hope Romero's upcoming solo cookbook. Testing has been quite the celebration of Latin flavours. I have been introduced to fantastic new ingredients ( masa harina , achiote seed, aji panca paste, etc). Of course, every recipe has been amazing (Would you expect anything else from Terry'), In order to use this roster of recipes to...
words to eat by (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Today's New York Times has an interesting article about crowdsourcing recipes , creating a wiki where users can enter their favorite recipes and anyone can change them. Personally, I don't think that's such a great idea; I'm the first one to admit that I rarely follow a recipe exactly as written, but I'd never think that my version should replace the original. Even if I think mine is better, I know...
I'm Mad and I Eat (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
We have just under a couple of weeks until summer ends in the Northern Hemisphere, and I'm trying to use up as many tomatoes as possible. In years past, that usually meant raw tomatoes in salads with feta cheese, cucumbers and onions. Or gazpacho. For some reason, my mentality has recently allowed cooked tomatoes as a summer meal. Look: a tomato torte. I can't even remember where I cruised across this...
I'm Mad and I Eat (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Tomato Soup and Toast, basically. But homemade (and free of wheat products). This is our first gazpacho of the year. Last week I came across a recipe that advised grating halved raw tomatoes on the large holes of a box grater, until all you have left is the thin tomato skin in your hand. It really works! You get the skin off, and you get nice, smooth little pieces of tomato. I have an antique grater...
The Perfect Pantry (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
While I'm visiting one of The Perfect Pantry's guest bloggers, please enjoy a classic recipe that turns gluten-free by swapping black beans for bread crumbs, in an updated post from the archives, with a printer-friendly recipe. Way back when -- we're talking decades ago -- my best friend Joyce had...
yumsugar (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
In sad news, food legend Sheila Lukins, the author of such famed tomes as The New Basics and The Silver Palate Cookbook , passed away Sunday at her home in Manhattan after a three-month fight with brain cancer. Lukins was credited with broadening the taste buds of American cooks. At a time when canned cream soups and fussy French recipes were the rage, she made dishes like gazpacho and Indonesian...
Kahakai Kitchen (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
I have been seeing all kinds of gazpacho recipes made with almonds and white grapes in cookbooks, magazines, etc., so it has been on my " to make " list for some time. When I saw a very simple one on the ( newish ) show " 5 Ingredient Fix" on the Food Network and also found some good grapes at Whole Foods, I decided to try it. What could be easier than five ingredients and a blender?...
Epicurious.com (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
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Saveur.com: New Recipes (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Tropezones means stumbling stones in Spanish, and in this recipe, the term refers to the mixture of bell pepper, onion, and cucumber that tops this cold soup. Continue...
Whisk: a food blog (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
For such a simple recipe, Gazpacho has a lot of history dating back to the Middle Ages in Andalucia. An Iberian peasant woman in the Andalucian region in southern Spain, soaks her days-old homemade bread in some water in the earthenware mortar that her mother used. Pounding the sun-warmed tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, green bell peppers and garlic gathered from the garden earlier in the day with her...
Serious Eats (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
On Fridays, Joshua Bousel drops by with a recipe for you to grill over the weekend. Fire it up, Joshua! The extreme heat and humidity we have going on here in New York hasn't exactly left me with a desire...
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