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  • white bean, sausage and kale soup
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    white bean, sausage and kale soup

    The winter is finally almost coming to a close but there is still a bit more time left for soup. Two years ago, it feels like all I did was make soup … and this year not so much. While I’ve been cooking a little bit more than the writing lets on, there has been…

  • carrot butternut squash soup
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    carrot butternut squash soup

    I’ve been slowly making more progress in my kitchen recently… and have stock piled a few recipes that I need to write up. This is one of them…. and it’s an easy one. There is something about butternut squash soup that just screams Fall. I fully intended on picking up the squash for bargain prices…

  • chorizo and kale soup
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    chorizo and kale soup

      One of my favorite things to do is Swiffer the floors … and cook in my kitchen. Today was super productive…  and not all at once.  I cleaned all my floors and bathrooms. I have 1.5. It’s luxurious. I cleaned the tub and I hung up all the coats I’ve worn in the last…

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    Country Beef Stew (with fresh bread)

    Sometimes I have a really hard time finding something to make for Sunday dinner. Yesterday was one of those days, I had visions of beef slow cooking on the oven while I watched the Olympics … but I wasn’t really finding anything that fit my fancy. I thought about switching to fish… but was equally…

  • broccoli kale soup
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    broccoli kale soup

    This soup sounds a bit like something you’d eat for lunch if you were trying to be really healthy. But in reality it’s what I made for the a Downton Abbey Dinner … except that we were so tired that we opted to instead just watch “How I Met Your Mother”. Sometimes you just need…

  • Mexican Chicken Soup… for Fall
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    Mexican Chicken Soup… for Fall

    I originally had plans to make a seared cod tonight for dinner… and I’m pretty sure that’s the opposite of a Mexican chicken soup. I even procured all of the ingredients for both at Whole Foods this afternoon. But, this afternoon slipped away from me … and some how it seemed much more rational to…

  • Leek Potato Soup
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    Leek Potato Soup

    As I mentioned in the documentation of my corn asparagus leek tart, I overstocked my fridge with leeks a few weeks ago … and needed to take care of the problem this weekend. When I mentioned this to my friend Meghan, she first suggested a potato and leek soup. I countered with “they all want…

  • split pea soup
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    split pea soup

    In the past when I’ve been documenting our Downton Abbey dinners I’ve tried to stick with writing in the order that we ate. But this week, we started eating with split pea soup.  It’s not exciting. It’s not sexy.  Split pea soup is great but it’s not a conversation starter. It’s a sidebar. Nobody says…

  • Brown Butter Tomato Soup
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    Brown Butter Tomato Soup

    In the event you were wondering, it is most definitely soup season. It’s like I don’t know how to exist without a stockpile of frozen homemade soups in my freezer. Currently I’m rocking some arugula lentil soup, chorizo lentil soup and now this little gem. A brown butter tomato soup.

  • chorizo and lentil soup
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    chorizo and lentil soup

    Earlier in the year I made a sweet potato and sausage soup. I made it because I thought it would fulfill my love of meat and carbs in a liquid based dish. Spoiler alert. It didn’t. It was so mediocre that I couldn’t even be compelled to write about it.  I’m still taking credit for…