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A Recipe for a Nasty Cold: Egg Drop Soup with Duck

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While we’re away at the annual Weston A Price Foundation annual conference, learning about the GAPS Diet, traditional foods and hearing speakers like Denise Minger bust established myths regarding health, nutrition and the place of fat and animal foods in the diet, I thought I’d take the time to share with you some older posts [...]

Curried Lentil Soup with Coconut Milk

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Curried lentil soup, rich with the heady scent of toasted cardamom, coriander and fenugreek, moves from the humble to the extraordinary. I don’t often cook curries, not that I dislike them: far from it, I love curry; it’s just that I find more easy inspiration in culinary herbs from the kitchen garden (many of which [...]

Welcoming the First Frost: Spiced Lentil Soup with Roasted Heirloom Tomatoes

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The other morning I woke to the thin sheen of the season’s first frost glazing the leaves of my kitchen herbs which grow in mismatched, hand-me-down pots and buckets on my front steps. But it’s only August, I hear you say. Indeed. But here in the heart of the Rockies, where my little nook in [...]

Onion Bisque with Frizzled Leeks

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Onion bisque, a decidedly humble food, bridges the seasons of winter and spring in a beautiful marriage of overwintered onions and shallots with the new leeks of early spring. While many traditional bisques rely on thickening from cream or a floury roux, this simple onion bisque relies instead on a smooth body of pureed leeks [...]

Slowcooker Chicken Soup to Soothe a Weary Soul

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Slowcooker chicken soup can soothe a weary soul.  These days mine is in desperate want of soothing.  There are months when life seems to take the lead and you’re always just one step behind – months when obligations never cease, when kids and work and charitable obligations all need your attention NOW and without compromise.  [...]

Rabbit in Riesling with Winter Vegetables & Fresh Herbs

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It’s cold where I live. Very cold. Very very cold. But beautiful, too.  And here, where snow graces our mountain town nine and sometimes ten months of the year, you learn to make a lot of soups and stews – warming dishes that nourish the body, satisfy the tastebuds and sustain your will through the [...]

A Recipe: Chicken and Gluten-free Dumplings with Fresh Herbs

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Gluten-free chicken and dumplings swimming in a salty, creamy broth of herbs and aromatic vegetables found its way to our kitchen a few weeks ago.   A cold-weather food, good for the changing of the seasons, gluten-free chicken and dumplings can satisfy hungry bellies on chilly autumn evenings – fulfilling the roles of both company food [...]

A Vintage Recipe: Cream of Chicken Soup

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Cream of chicken soup, real cream of chicken soup, doesn’t come from a red and white can, folks. Real cream of chicken soup is homemade, from scratch and lovingly tended as it simmers.  Buttery, rich with the flavor of chicken, and irrepressibly smooth, it’s a nourishing dish with an old-fashioned, and almost timeless charm (skip [...]

A Recipe: Miso Soup with Clams

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Miso Soup with Clams is one of those special foods – simple and quiet and humble, but also elegant in its simplicity.   Sometimes the best dishes are the simplest.  In our home, broths and stocks form the foundation of many of our meals, and with good reason.  Broths and stocks are potently rich sources of [...]

A Recipe: Potato Leek Soup with Dill

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Potato Leek Soup, dotted with dill and pasture-raised bacon, may seem like an odd addition to a June post. I mean, really now, summer’s less than a week away – and I imagine all of you sipping away at icy tomato gazpachos and spooning sweet cherry sorbet into your mouths. It’s hot. It’s humid and the night air is sultry and warm where you are, isn’t it? Don’t lie to me now – I know it’s true. While you’re lounging by the grill, sending your kids to run naked through the sprinklers and collect raspberries on tall, leafy canes, I’m shivering and considering turning out the heat though it’s the middle of June dammitall.

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