The other day, we noticed that some of our onions were starting to go bad. Not really bad, as in, you have to throw them out, but just getting soft, or needing several layers peeled off before use. To us, that meant we needed to find a use for a lot of onions, fast. We trimmed a couple and placed them in a bag in the refrigerator to use later in the week and selected out the ones that looked the best for later use, but, we still had three medium onions to use, ideally that day. We thought about Alsace Onion Tart, but then we remembered we had a recipe that covered two French onion soups, a Normandy Onion Soup, and this one, Lyonnaise Onion Soup. Don’t worry, fellow scratcher, we’ll tell you how to make both.
Beet and Caraway Soup
We’d picked up a large bunch of beets at the store last week and cooked them all up at once. After making a couple of different dishes, we were left a single huge beet — about 3/4 of a pound — which we figured was perfect for beet soup. Now, we don’t normally make beet soup, and it wasn’t even something we thought about until we had some great beet soup at Revel in Silver City, NM. After eating there, we quickly recreated their Beet Soup with Fennel and Coriander Seeds, but today, we’ll make a Beet and Caraway Soup.
Minestrone Soup
If we had to guess, we’d say there are probably a million versions of minestrone soup. We figure that every family in Italy has several versions, because it’s a soup that changes with the seasons and with the vegetables that are available. But, the basic idea is pretty much the same: make a very hearty tomato-based vegetable soup with a few beans and a handful of pasta. If you follow that, and put in vegetables that you like, we don’t think you can go wrong.
Beet Soup with Fennel and Coriander Seeds
Even when we were off on our most recent trip, we were busy searching out the best recipes we could find, all just for you, dear reader. Over in Silver City, NM, we stopped in at Revel one night for drinks and dinner. We loved it, and we think it’s probably the best place to eat in Silver right now. The people working there are friendly, and, we have to say, they’re making up some really tasty food. We started with vegetable fritters as an appetizer, and they were very good, but the soup of the day was perfect. We had to try to replicate it at home.
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Gnudi in Brodo (Italian Dumplings in Broth)
We had a few of those Pumpkin and Walnut Gnudi left in the freezer, and, while we ate some with a red pasta sauce, it’s also quite common to use gnudi in a light broth. The best part of making Gnudi in Brodo is that it makes for a light, quick meal, provided, of course, you have some leftover gnudi that you need to use.
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Vermont Cheddar Soup
We love this soup, but we hadn’t had it for years. Not because it’s difficult to make, but, well, probably because it’s such a good soup, that we feel we need a special occasion to make it. This year, we had it as the soup course for our Thanksgiving dinner. Yes, we did courses for our dinner: appetizer, soup, entrée, and dessert. It gives us good practice on timing dishes, and, with just the two of us, it’s not that arduous.
Zucchini Soup
Do you think that experiment with the Sweet and Sour Zucchini dampened our spirits for trying new zucchini recipes? No way, when it comes to zucchini season we have the jump on the rest of the country. Who else out there is testing zucchini recipes in preparation for the overwhelming supply of zucchini still to come?