Category Archives: Soup

Bummer! I made this soup for the crowd watching the Bruins game last night, and I like to think that it assuaged just a little bit of the heartbreak of losing Game Seven in overtime. That’s the thing about soups… they always come in handy one way or another. And don’t worry, hearty hockey fans, [...]

Pho is a beautiful thing. I’ll never forget the time I asked a former coworker/chef what his favorite type of food was, and he proceeded to launch into a 15 minute monologue about pho. We were standing on the line prepping for service and I’m pretty sure he talked the entire time I seared chicken [...]

Stars are pretty much the most adorable pasta on the market today. I mean, come on. Maybe… MAYBE alphabet pasta could give them a run for their money. Other than the alphabet contender, stars are in a league of their own. I’m pretty convinced that even creeps like the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang [...]

This soup is 100% inspired by the cover of my friend Jessica’s new favorite cookbook, Super Natural Cooking by Heidi Swanson. On my most recent visit to her apartment, I immediately started salivating at the looks of this delicious rice/asparagus/pea soup on the cover. It looked incredible, fresh, simple, and ridiculously healthy. I was sold. [...]

Turns out this soup was the perfect dinner to nurse me back after a particularly spine-twisting, hip-popping, groan-inducing yoga class last night. This teacher (twice my age, naturally) had just come back from some yogi-retreat and made me shake and crumble like a 95-year-old grandpa with arthritis. Those 90 minutes might as well have been [...]

We’re hitting the dead of winter. Which means two things and two things only: root veggies and pale skin. At work we’re starting to push it with how many ways you can serve a beet (beet salad, roasted beets, butter-braised beets… oy). But it’s not as dire as it seems. Ok, your skin tone, yes [...]

Wow it’s gotten cold! Thank goodness for my sleeping-bag-with-sleeves coat or I would be an icicle by now. To weather the chill, my secret friend playing Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and I decided to whip up some soul-warming soup. Not only were we craving the comfort of corn chowder, but also our friend P just [...]

Ok, I know I’ve claimed to have lived off of PB&J’s and poached eggs in college. But that wasn’t entirely true. There was a third and important food group: soup. Soup is one of the best things ever invented. Stone Soup (Ann McGovern’s version) was one of my favorite childhood books. You can make soup [...]

My sister Clare is my witty, beautiful, cool-as-a-cucumber role model who recently invited me to join her book club. She’s ten, by the way. Our other club members are Clare’s friend Tess, and my twenty-three year old sister Frances. It’s a great club. As the founding member and club president, Clare chooses our books, the [...]