Chicken Bean Soup with Herb Oil
After an awesome but very busy week with my in-laws, it was bound to happen. We let our guard down for only a few days and – BAM! – both of us awoke to a cold. While I shouldn’t complain since it is my first cold of the year, I’m going to anyways, because 2011...
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Sweet Potato Soup with Bacon
Last week was intense! First, we had an amazing snowstorm dropping 30 inches followed by intense winds that shut down almost every chair lift in site. For a while it felt like our little house might blow away and poor Ollie has never gone to the bathroom faster. Second, we got to meet the Jackson...
Homemade Vegetable Broth
Yesterday’s post discussing the difference between a stock and broth got me thinking – according to my own definitions I’ve never made homemade broth. Feeling a little embarrassed, I also came to the realization that I’ve never made a vegetable broth or stock (although I’m not sure you can called it stock because there are...
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Bacon Corn Chowder – Round 2
When visiting Jackson Hole last year, Chris and I discovered the Silver Dollar Bar in the Wort Hotel. The place was simply enchanting. Live folk music filled the air while “real” cowboys spun girls in circles on the dance floor. Unable to turn away, we nestled into a table with a drink and glanced over...
Making Homemade Stocks
I’ll never forget the first time I tasted homemade chicken stock. I was at a cooking class where we roasted a chicken and prepared it with a rosemary sauce. First off, I’ve never had a better-prepared chicken in my life. Each bite was succulent and sooo rich. Adding the rosemary sauce (where we used the...
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Celery Root Soup with Bacon and Apples
Celery root is not a looker. Picture tangled roots, hairy tentacles, and more dirt filled crevices than Ollie, my labradoodle, after a romp in the mud. Pick it up in at the farmer’s market and be sure to have a paper towel handy to wipe the dirt off your hands. Celery root is not a...
Butternut Squash Soup Recipe
Today is my last long run before the marathon, thank God! Twenty-two miles to be exact. I’ll be crossing the starting line of the NYC marathon (fingers crossed everyone!) in 17 days 15 hours 33 minutes and 6 seconds, but for now it’s still training time. Despite the frost on each blade of grass in...
Cauliflower Soup with Fried Beet Chips
I have odd cravings. Not your traditional sugar loaded delightful treats (well, sometimes), but healthy ones. I can make a meal out of Greek olives, prefer cottage cheese on its own, and eat cauliflower like popcorn. I try to be a health conscious person and will go to extreme measures to get nutrients (like plugging...
Homemade Beef Stock
I never gave much thought to stocks – either the kind that make money or the kind that make soups. For cooking it always seemed convenient enough to just purchase stock in a can at the grocery store. If I was making something special I’d spring for the “free-range” or “grass fed” version. Eventually, however,...
Vichyssoise
The first time I made potato leek soup we had just moved to Brooklyn and were hosting our first get-together in our new apartment. The hours leading up to our little party were filled racing around picking up last minute items and attempting to clean the house. When I finally had things just right I...
Chilled Spring Pea Soup
You can’t fully understand the pain of home renovations, until, well, you live in one. Band-Aids become a staple like milk and far too much beer is consumed. Lucky for Ollie, and us after well over 100 trips to Home Depot, we are D-O-N-E! Don’t worry I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to share our...
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Bacon Corn Chowder
Bacon Corn Chowder Chris and I visited the Wort Hotel’s Silver Dollar Grill for dinner. The restaurant is designed like an old western saloon (which makes sense, since it once was) complete with a live swing band with a banjo and trombone. I was waiting for Clint Eastwood to pop around the corner at any...
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