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Italy Arrival
Perfect fried zucchini blossoms. Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Donna and I had begun 12 days of a work-vacation (what other kind of vacation would we do without kids?) by flying to Rome, then heading...
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Basic Meals—Just Add Water
A simple zucchini soup. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Last week I wrote about our first meal in Italy with the Motturas—the fineness of the meal and the pleasures of sitting down to many courses. But...
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Zucchini Soup
A bowl of hot zucchini soup. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Last summer when Donna and I traveled to Italy, our first meal happened to be at a lovely hotel and home of a great wine maker and his wife,...
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The Remarkable Ina Garten (with a side of minestrone)
Ina Garten’s minestrone soup. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Tomorrow night at Playhouse Square, I'll be hosting Ina Garten, aka the Barefoot Contessa, the brain and heart behind what has become an...
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Matzo Ball Soup
Matzo ball soup at its most elegant, with clarified broth and thoughtfully cut garnish. Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman I had a question for my friend and neighbor Lois Baron and her email ended thus:...
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Auntie Reggie’s Minestrone
Regina Turner Simmons and her weekday minestrone. Photo by sister Donna. Tuesday or Wednesday is usually soup day here, as it was last week when Donna's sister, Regina, was here for Cakes 101, to teach...
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Holiday Classic: Butternut Squash Soup
"Phenomenal" Butternut Squash and Leek Soup. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Just back from great Chefs Collaborative event in Charleston, SC, and now must head to Vegas, my favorite city on earth...
View ArticlePaleo Carrot and Cardamom Soup
I’m on the road today, flying home at long last after my West Coast EGG book tour, so I’ve asked my friend Michelle of Nom Nom Paleo for a guest post and recipe from her dynamic new book while I...
View ArticleButternut Squash Soup
When I arrived at Cleveland Airport this morning, I found a tweet from @nancypantscan (who has the coolest Twitter icon—I can never stop staring and marveling at it!), who said this soup, previously...
View ArticleSweet Bell Pepper Soup
This is a fabulous all-purpose soup method, here used with sweet bell peppers. But you can use it for just about any vegetable—asparagus, mushroom, pea, carrot. I learned it from Thomas Keller and...
View ArticleWinter Vegetable Garbure
Continuing a series of soup posts as the weather cools (here in the Northeast at least), I’m offering this rich vegetable garbure. Garbure hails from my favorite food region, Gascony, in the...
View ArticleHoliday Classic: Butternut Squash Soup
I’m reposting this soup because it’s such a fabulous fall soup, and the weather in the northeast has finally turned into appropriate soup weather. There’s no better fall vegetable soup than this one...
View ArticleI Carry Your Heart:Chicken Soup For a Friend
I knew I would be spending this afternoon with a dear friend, Laura, the girl I sat next to as we graduated from Duke in 1985. She’s in considerable anguish having lost her love to cancer, her soul,...
View ArticlePosole
Its getting chilly outside, but warm up by making a batch of Posole soup, via NYT.
View ArticleChowder Time
It is cold outside and the best way to warm up is making a bowl of clam chowder from La Conner Brewing, via LA Times.
View ArticleSoup is On
Warm up this winter by making a batch of this potato soup, via The Pioneer Woman.
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From Scratch Podcast: Water Episode
Tom Yum Kung Soup by Jean-Georges: water seasonings aromats, shrimp, mushrooms. On this week’s episode I explore my second favorite ingredient in the kitchen, one we scarcely think about: water. I...
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The Remarkable Ina Garten (with a side of minestrone)
Ina Garten’s minestrone soup. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Tomorrow night at Playhouse Square, I'll be hosting Ina Garten, aka the Barefoot Contessa, the brain and heart behind what has become an...
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Matzo Ball Soup
Matzo ball soup at its most elegant, with clarified broth and thoughtfully cut garnish. Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman I had a question for my friend and neighbor Lois Baron and her email ended thus:...
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Auntie Reggie's Minestrone
Regina Turner Simmons and her weekday minestrone. Photo by sister Donna. Tuesday or Wednesday is usually soup day here, as it was last week when Donna's sister, Regina, was here for Cakes 101, to teach...
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