Ethiopian Takeout Tradition

Ethiopian Takeout Tradition

How the tradition began, as takeout during the pandemic in 2020 To more recently, returning to the restaurant as a family -- nearly unrecognizable as the people we were when the tradition began. (Look at those COVID-inspired manes!)

15-Bean Soup

15-Bean Soup

Now, at the last soup of the season, I’ve made 39 weeks’ worth of soup, which translates to 3,042 quarts or nearly 760 gallons… or the equivalent of 115 kegs of soup for all of you class acts out there. This final recipe is based on the classic bag of “bean soup” mixed beans by Hambeens, which I first noticed on the shelf when it was routinely the only one left when the pandemic hit. Optimistic that I’d found a secret bag of beans in some sort of porthole to an alternate universe, I would pick...

Summer Succotash

Summer Succotash

This is a soup I have only made for my friends once, which, at the end of a long soup season, feels like the soup equivalent of a couple that’s been married for fifty years discovering something new about each other. I wrote this recipe for the cookbook at the start of the pandemic after I stress-bought a giant bag of black-eyed peas in March when it was the last on the shelf, thinking I could find some interesting use for it as summer approached. Anyway, voilà! I love this recipe, this soup,...

Farmer’s Market Pistou

Farmer’s Market Pistou

I love Provençal food. I learned this when I was in the South of France doing my internship for culinary school (called a “stage” en Français) and would hike – no joke— on the side of a highway on my days off to the neighboring town and eat in the restaurants with all the locals (mostly with the support staff at the inn/Michelin-starred restaurant where I worked). The flavors, to me, are the best parts of French cuisine with an Italian accent. This classic Provençal soup gets its name from a...

Alabama Summer Garden Soup

Alabama Summer Garden Soup

My husband and your soup delivery driver, Garth, is from Alabama. In our seventeen years together, a common touch point to family and finding a sense of home in his hometown has most often taken place during the sweltering summer. I’m from Florida, so was accustomed to the air-conditioned form of self-preservation required to make it through the season, finding ways to enjoy it even. I developed a great love of Birmingham’s farmer’s market, working there one summer during college between...

Spring Minestrone

Spring Minestrone

I bet you haven’t eaten a cooked radish, huh, with their greens… Or ramps? Well, you’re in for some new experiences, then, as I take you on a tour of some of my favorite spring produce in this week’s soup! When cooked, radishes lose their zip and take on a yielding, gentle texture for such a bold mascot of spring; their greens lend a bright flavor to the broth. Also known as wild leeks, ramps have a delicate but commanding flavor, somewhat like a blend of garlic and onion; I used their greens,...

Asparagus, Dill + Lemon Soup

Asparagus, Dill + Lemon Soup

I don’t know why, but the only common soup that features asparagus – another outstanding spring veggie worthy of soup celebration – is puréed! (If you don’t believe me, Google “asparagus soup” and see what comes up.) Puréed soups are the least interesting kind, in my humble opinion, and should be relegated to appetizers served at boring dinner parties or baby food. What about asparagus begs to be pulverized? So I set out to make another classic soup with asparagus and a handful of other...

Seattle Springtime Lentil

Seattle Springtime Lentil

You know those days when you wake up and a chill is in the air but the sunlight is starting to stream through your blinds? Those perfect early spring days when warmer weather is yawning and stretching before us, like the daffodils? It reminds me of when I was recovering from my treatment and walking around town, feeling restored by the flowers, then returning home to find a jar of lentil soup on my steps from a neighbor. It’s remained my favorite time in Seattle, when our city thanks us for...


 

 

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