Portuguese Pea Soup

Portuguese Pea Soup

I cooked so many roasted red peppers in a Michelin-starred restaurant during my internship from culinary school that I thought I could never eat one again. I would lie in bed at night – a cot in a converted horse stable, mind you—and smell it on my hair and fingers,...
Harira

Harira

This Moroccan soup is traditionally made to break the fast of Ramadan. It also traditionally contains lamb, so I guess we’re officially heathens. (Serve some dates warmed up in some olive oil for dessert and you’ll make up for it.) This harira recipe is warm,...
Chunky Garden Vegetable Stew

Chunky Garden Vegetable Stew

When I was growing up, we ate canned soup sometimes—something I honestly can’t imagine ever doing today unless a threat of death was involved. Nonetheless, it was an occasional tool my dad relied on to keep our family fed. I remember savoring the sort that came from a...