Soups

Minestrone-esque Soup November 2, 2012 | 7 Comments

We love living in New York City.  This place has everything you could ever dream of and more — a thousand-million-billion restaurants (where else can you choose between 20 Indian/Thai/Italian/Burger restaurants all within walking distance?), museums galore (even if you can only afford them one [...]

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Barley and Vegetable Soup October 1, 2012 | 3 Comments

The fall brought a new season of veggies, a new year of school (for A), and a new season of colds (for all).  Blame it on the lack of sleep or the presence of teenagers, but what was supposed to be a relaxing Saturday staying [...]

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Matzo Ball Soup April 10, 2012 | 4 Comments

Why is this week different from all other weeks?  Well in our household, it isn’t THAT different.  We are fans of matzo ball soup and we like to eat it all year round.  The big difference is that we made our matzo balls from scratch [...]

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Tomato Miso Soup March 9, 2012 | 6 Comments

Have you ever decided to make a recipe, gone shopping for the ingredients and then forgotten to get the key one, only realizing it part way into the cooking process?  Well, that’s what we did last Saturday. We had decided to stay in, make dinner, [...]

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Winter Weather and Winter Soup November 7, 2011 | 7 Comments

We were supposed to spend Halloween weekend with friends up in Westchester going to haunted houses and a maze of carved, blazing pumpkins, but winter struck the east coast and all our events were cancelled by an unexpected October snow.  So, we stayed in the [...]

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Fall Weather and Fall Soup October 31, 2011 | 8 Comments

We have been soaking up the fall weather and craving foods to match it — and although we promised we’d take a break from writing about corn, we never promised to stop loving it.  We recently decided to make another butternut squash soup, but wanted [...]

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Two Cooks on the Cape October 2, 2011 | 11 Comments

A has an incredibly generous uncle with a beach house in Chatham, MA. Every year he offers us a vacation spent in the comfort of his home and every Fall we more than willingly take him up on his offer.  The house has three bedrooms, [...]

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Worth a shot August 22, 2011 | 2 Comments

We have been meaning to post about our successfully failed dinner party for a while and hope it isn’t too late. The short version is that we made a relatively last minute decision to host a big dinner party and cooked a four-course meal for eight. [...]

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