Ah, this soup. It's been a favorite of mine, in one iteration or another, for years. But there is a small problem with it, which prevented me from doing a post on it last fall, and which almost prevented me from posting it today. The truth is, it's not the prettiest color. Beneath that swirl of ...
Spinach Avocado Soup with Salsa Verde
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that it's the very end of August, and I only discovered this soup last week. It was in an old issue of Better Homes & Gardens that was on the coffee table at the beach house we rented in Rhode Island. I had a hunch it would be delicious, so I copied it onto a scrap of ...
Cucumber Buttermilk Soup
I considered calling this Alex's Worst Nightmare Soup, but I decided that for SEO purposes, it wasn't a good idea. Just kidding. Sort of. Much to my disappointment, my husband is not a fan of either cucumbers or buttermilk. He picks the cucumbers out of all my salads and leaves them languishing on ...
Tomato Watermelon Gazpacho
I have an old email from April 2007 that always makes me smile. It's from my best friend from high school. She is helping me analyze my new relationship, and also giving me her recipe for gazpacho. What are girlfriends for, right? Sarah and I met on the first day of 9th grade. I was a new ...
Chilled Cauliflower Soup with Truffle Oil
For a long time, I thought we would never leave Brooklyn. When Alex got a new job and we moved to the Lower Hudson Valley it all happened very fast, and I was definitely in a state of mild culture shock. I had a moment one morning in the parking lot of my new gym, when I couldn't tell which Honda ...
Asparagus and Pea Soup with Mint Pesto
I have a giant celebrity chef crush on Naomi Pomeroy, who owns Beast in Portland, Oregon. I haven't actually been to her restaurant, but a couple of years ago Alex took me to a cooking class she was teaching for my birthday. If you live in New York and have never been to De Gustibus, I highly ...
Vegan Potato Leek Soup with Roasted Garlic
This may come as a surprise, since I grew up outside of Boston and I love craft beer, but I am a giant St. Patrick's Day scrooge. I don't like shepherd's pie or mashed potatoes, and I could probably count the number of times I've eaten corned beef on one hand. When I was in college, it was kind ...
Sweet Potato Soup with Peanut Butter
Last week, on a particularly freezing evening, I came home from working in the city to find that my mother-in-law had brought us dinner from one of our favorite local restaurants. Yay! She totally saved us, as I had literally nothing in the fridge except a carton of eggs and a head of broccoli. We ...
Hummus and Red Pepper Soup
I just googled it, and evidently January is National Soup Month. (It's also National Hot Tea Month, National Oatmeal Month, and National Slow Cooking Month). Who knows if the website I was looking at is legit, but let's go with it. It's literally 20 degrees out right now in New York, so four weeks ...
Carrot Soup with Orange, Cinnamon, and Ginger
When Owen was a newborn, I used to take him to Bloomingdale's in the Baby Bjorn. Our apartment in Brooklyn was right near the Q train, which runs express to 59th St. Despite what you may think, Bloomingdale's is actually very baby-friendly. You don't have to go outside to get from the subway into ...
