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Lebanese Soup & Bread Recipes for cold and blustery days

By Maureen Abood On January 7, 2014 · 8 Comments · In Menus, Stories and Recipes
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 [...]
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Fragrant Chicken Soup in a deruta pottery bowl

Fragrant Lebanese Chicken Soup Recipe

By Maureen Abood On October 18, 2012 · 21 Comments · In Chicken, Fish, Beef, Lamb, Fall, Soups, Stories and Recipes, Winter
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 [...]
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Technique for a warm bowl of soup

By Maureen Abood On October 17, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Techniques
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 [...]
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Ingredient: Mirepoix

By Maureen Abood On October 16, 2012 · Add Comment · In Ingredients
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. [...]
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Favorite Things: Italian pottery soup bowls

By Maureen Abood On October 15, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Favorite Things
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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Lebanese Soup & Bread Recipes for cold and blustery days

By Maureen Abood On January 7, 2014 · 8 Comments · In Menus, Stories and Recipes
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 More »
Fragrant Chicken Soup in a deruta pottery bowl

Fragrant Lebanese Chicken Soup Recipe

By Maureen Abood On October 18, 2012 · 21 Comments · In Chicken, Fish, Beef, Lamb, Fall, Soups, Stories and Recipes, Winter
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 More »

Technique for a warm bowl of soup

By Maureen Abood On October 17, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Techniques
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 More »

Ingredient: Mirepoix

By Maureen Abood On October 16, 2012 · Add Comment · In Ingredients
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 More »

Favorite Things: Italian pottery soup bowls

By Maureen Abood On October 15, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Favorite Things
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 [...]
Read More »
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