Two things are true about the latter days of summer. The first, is that there’s a beautiful bounty of fresh fruits and vegetables ripe for the picking. The second, is that it’s too darn hot to properly cook any single one of them. Even turning on the stove to do a quick stir fry of green…
A Soup to Beat the Heat
Gazpacho is a warm-weather soup. In other words, it’s a cold, slurpy, thirst-quenching soup, spiked with chile heat to make you sweat and, hence, cool you down in the summer heat. The Spanish vegetable soup is tomato-based and mixed with a cornucopia (or in this case, a sheet pan) of chopped vegetables. Many preparations suggest…
Mushroom Soup Immunity, Iron, and Vitamin D (Recipe)
July 29, 2022
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Mushrooms are strange creatures. Neither plant nor animal, these fungal fruits are in a class all their own. Some species are psychotropic. Others are deadly. For many ancient cultures, even perfectly edible mushrooms were suspect. The Chinese, however, embraced mushrooms early on. One of the most important specimens in Chinese culture is shiitake, which has been a…
Hearty Garden Vegetable Soup
Years ago, an older relative shared this recipe with me. He had grown up in rural Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl years, when times were hard, food was scarce, and bellies often went hungry. His mother tended a little kitchen garden—a luxury when many neighbors had nothing—and gleaned from it what she could. Each summer…
Searching for the Secrets of Caldo Verde
I recently visited Fall River, Massachusetts, a sleepy fishing town on the Rhode Island border whose long-established Portuguese community has made it the capital of Portuguese seafood in North America. There, amidst the wine-sauced littleneck clams, grilled cod, scallops moçambique, and Portuguese paella, I found a bowl of kale potato soup that almost stole the…
Chilled Soups Hit the Spot as We Enter the Dog Days of Summer
This summer vegetable soup checks all the boxes. It’s cold, tangy, slightly sweet, light and refreshing. Zucchini and corn are summer vegetables that belong together. I like to grill them and show off their intrinsic sweet and mellow flavors. Sometimes I don’t have the time for setting up the grill, so I rely on high…
Soup in the Summer? Why Not! Here Are 4 Recipes That Make the Most of Fresh Veggies
By Daniel Neman St. Louis Post-Dispatch When the produce at your local store, farmers market or your own garden is at its peak, it’s time to make fresh vegetables the star of your meal. It’s time to make summertime soups. In the summer, you want to make the most out of your produce by bringing…
Green Detox Soup (Bieler’s Broth)
Green soup is like a warm green smoothie for the soul. Imagine that a warm green broth is much easier to digest than a cold drink, especially with the addition of a few warming spices like cumin and ginger. To make green soup, all you need to do is simmer zucchini, green beans, and celery…
Putting the Yum in Tom Yum: A Detailed Guide to Making Thailand’s Favorite Soup
“Thai cuisine is not fixed. You can adjust it any way,” says Ms. Ruchaneevan “Yui” Indragarunwet of Baipai Thai Cooking School in Bangkok. I attended her school to learn how to make one of my favorite Thai dishes: tom yum kung, or hot and sour soup with shrimp. It’s the national soup of Thailand, but when…
Environmental Nutrition: Ready to Eat Soups
A steaming bowl of soup is the perfect meal for a chilly, damp day. But the time required for it to simmer for hours on the stovetop is a luxury we don’t always have. Ready-to-eat soup to the rescue! Prepared soups, however, are one of the highest sodium-containing foods at the grocery store. Fortunately, many…
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