White Bean, Kale & Bacon Soup
Spring veggies are still just a wistful daydream for a little while yet *sigh*, so I wanted to make something big and bright with the long-lasting winter stalwarts kale, celery root and carrots. Creamy cannellini cooked with bacon fat and root vegetable trimmings make this soup satisfying enough for dinner. Crispy bacon, fresh lemon...
Roasted Beet Borscht with Dill-Pickled Apples
Sometimes I start working on a recipe with one thing in mind, and then get completely sidetracked by some curiousity that had nothing to do with the original concept. With borscht: it was the color. I really, truly had not started this recipe with the intention of making the most garish soup on the planet…....
Vegetable Broth
Often the trimmings from vegetables are removed because they have a different texture. Some of these trimmings are perfectly edible (potato and carrot peels) while others are too fibrous to eat by themselves (leek leaves and parmesan cheese rinds). Either way these scraps can be used to make a wholesome, tasty broth. Broth is made...
Carrot Soup
I must have had dozens of carrot soups. Perhaps it is not encouraging that I distinctly can’t remember any of them. Carrots seemed like a rather obvious choice for a penny stretching dish. Though they are readily available and uniformly cheap, they can also be mediocre and forgettable. I’ve been playing around with a couple...
