Posts Tagged ‘Lebanese chicken soup’
Lebanese Soup & Bread Recipes for cold and blustery days
No matter how you define cold where you live (no judgments here…), there’s no debate about keeping the home fires burning when the chill arrives, or at least the stove, with something warming. Something comforting. Something that eases the freeze and makes it more than okay to hibernate. Michigan winters (that’s what we used to…
Read MoreFragrant Lebanese Chicken Soup Recipe
I know this is a food blog and that I’m a food person and that we all agree on how much we love to cook and eat. But I’ve got to admit: I haven’t been feeling great lately, and it has to do with food. Can’t eat much, don’t feel like eating much, and when…
Read MoreTechnique for a warm bowl of soup
I suppose this isn’t so much about how to warm a bowl for soup as it is a persuasion to warm a bowl. At Tante Marie’s, it was a student’s job every day to warm the bowls and plates for lunch. To forget to do this was as much a problem as failing to salt…
Read MoreIngredient: Mirepoix
Ground work must be laid, a foundation, before any house can be built. In the kitchen, the flavor foundation for so many dishes is found in the French mirepoix (meer-pwah), the holy trinity of aromatics: onion, carrot, and celery. Broths, and therefore soups, of every sort begin with the coaxing of flavor from a mirepoix.…
Read MoreFavorite Things: Italian pottery soup bowls
It was a little embarrassing, everything I bought that day. Thank goodness I was with a bunch of food writers who could appreciate passion for the table. Our group was in Umbria, in the heart of central Italy. We were staying in an enchanted villa in Umbertide (I pronounced it as one might: Umber-tide, and…
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