Category Archives: Soups

How to Use a Slow Cooker: Top 5 Ways to Use Your CrockPot

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I’m a sucker for a good gadget, or, well, let’s be honest, any gadget (that’s what “sucker” means, right?) When I got my first Crock Pot, it was no doubt thanks to some marketing lackey’s storyboard fiction: Place random boring … Continue reading

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Magical Chawan Mushi (Japanese Savory Egg Custard)

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I was about to start this post talking about how cold and miserable San Francisco can be, but then I remembered that I can’t stand it when people belabor the fact that San Francisco is cold and damp. I mean, … Continue reading

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Shrimp Bisque

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Last week, as I toiled away in my home office on a typically cool and foggy Bay Area Fall day, I was struck with a hankering. As I mentioned yesterday, I was working on an assignment for a client that … Continue reading

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Easy Homemade Shrimp Stock Recipe

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I just realized that for years I’ve been throwing away gold. Pink culinary gold. With what I know now, I can’t believe I am saying this, but I used to think that shrimp shells were [gasp] garbage. Meanwhile, wholly convinced … Continue reading

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Summer Corn and Tomato Chowder with Fresh Basil

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Many years before the birth of The Lazy Gourmet, Robin and I were college housemates sharing a huge, century-old Victorian house with five other women. You can read the long version here—about how we all took turns cooking, about how … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Chez Panisse (and the Recipe for Mrs. Donovan’s Famous Roasted Red Pepper Soup)

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You may have heard that the other day Chez Panisse celebrated its fortieth birthday. I grew up just a few blocks from the famed Berkeley restaurant and my first memory of it was right around the time it opened. It’s … Continue reading

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Aunt Hilda’s Carrot Vichyssoise (Carrot, Sweet Potato, and Ginger Soup)

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A few months ago I embarked on a mission I’d been thinking about tackling for years: writing my family history. I’d always been curious about exactly where my ancestors were from, what they did for a living, and what they … Continue reading

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“Better than Bouillon” is an Accurate Product Name (plus: Turnip Soup with Rice & Greens)

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I love soup. I love its great variety, its generally healthy ingredients (the occasional heavy cream excepted), and how beautifully it holds up in the freezer. I love how calm I feel when I cook a huge pot of soup … Continue reading

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No Wallflowers Here: Truffled Cauliflower Soup

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Cauliflower appears, at first glance, to be the humblest of vegetables, too polite even to show off with a hint of color in its tightly bound florets. But a long roast in a hot oven has the same effect on … Continue reading

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Addictive Pumpkin Soup

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I was at a dinner party last night when the conversation turned to cigarette smoking. All the former smokers were commiserating about how it just got too darn inconvenient—and too socially deviant—to smoke in this country, at least here in … Continue reading

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