This is another recipe from Chez Panisse Vegetables. By the way, Silvi and I have started listing our favourite cookbooks under the cookbooks tab above. It will take me a while to finish mine….I have MANY, MANY cookbooks. Anyway, this soup is ridiculously simple and good for you. It is of Portuguese origin. Caldo Verde…
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Duck Fat Soup (Squash Panade with Red Wine)
This soup was originally called Squash Panade with Red Wine and it is from Chez Panisse Vegetables (one of my favourite cookbooks). It is basically a french onion soup. Deana Acheson re-named it duck fat soup after a particularly good dinner party many years ago. I only make this dish once a year because it…
Smokey Pumpkin Soup and Potato Pizza with Caramelized Onions and Goat Cheese (Gluten-free)
This is my favourite pumpkin soup. Its based on a Northwest Coast Cookbook that I don’t own anymore and I can’t remember its title. With the exception of the exact amount of liquid smoke… this soup is not an exact science. Feel free to improvise and make substitutions. I have a vague memory of the…
apple-BUTTER-nut Squash soup
Chris and I just got back from visiting his parents in Tennessee. The Greens hike and bike and are fastidiously careful about how they eat. They eat not much meat, no real butter, no whole eggs, and only skimmed milk products. It seems to be working out for them because they are fit, healthy, beautiful…
The many virtues of home-made chicken stock
This is the beginning of chicken stock making season for me. In truth, it is more satisfying to make chicken stock when the weather gets a bit colder, but I am underemployed in the early fall and too busy to make chicken stock in the winter when I need it for soups and holiday dishes….
Big Sis Little Dish 