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soups

spicy summer corn chowder

June 22, 2010

It’s probably the cumulative effect of so many vacations to the seashore that lead me to think of making chowder during the summer, but there’s still nothing intuitive to me about eating a hot soup when an iced tea would be more satisfying. But here I am posting a chicken corn chowder recipe in June. [...]

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ode to borscht

December 13, 2009

selected as an editors’ pick by food52

I’m going to start counting to 5
As I reach 5, your face will fall gently away
Your eyes will pull in and relax
Your neck will sink down into your shoulders
Your body will slump
Your knees will fall out to the sides
Your hands crimped and tight will let go of all [...]

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chestnut madeira soup

November 18, 2009

Buy
Boil
Bake
Break
That’s the sound of chestnuts!
If you’re looking for four hours to kill on a Saturday night, then see above.
If you want to avoid being a cheapskate like me last year, then spend $20 on 2 jars of already prepared ones!* I was initially a little suspicious of the quality those jars beheld. But unless you’re [...]

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quick cold cucumber soup with shrimp

August 8, 2009

How do you revive seven people hungry and aching from walking for five avenue blocks during a thunderstorm and then studying Frank Lloyd Wright designs while hiking up the overpopulated Guggenheim trail? You serve them the fastest and most refreshing food imaginable. That’s right, chilled cucumber soup!
I’ve just survived a spontaneous family visit, which left me one [...]

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whiskey smoked salmon chowda’

May 6, 2009

summer in cape cod
I don’t know when I had my first taste of chowder, but the one I remember most fondly, and really the only chowder that will remain in my heart, is the chowder my now husband introduced me to on Cape Cod. It was the first vacation we took as a seriously dating [...]

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