Lentil stew - wholesome, nourishing and filling - makes for an inexpensive and satisfying meal. I serve it in late autumn and winter, using up all the sturdy root Read More →
Lovage Soup for Spring
In the spring, our CSA brings us tender greens, young lettuces, small roots and huge bunches of herbs. As I picked through the farm's choices of herbs that week: angelica, rose Read More →
campfire roast chicken with flowering onion and dill
When the snows recede and the forests open we like to venture out: reveling in the woods, fishing in lakes and streams and cooking over the campfire in rustic simplicity. And Read More →
Portable Soup: My Homemade Bouillon
Portable soup, a sort of homemade bouillon, sustained travelers before Cup O' Noodles lined rest stop shelves and salty powdered bouillon cubes gave home cooks a short cut in Read More →
My Favorite Asparagus Soup
When spring inches its way forward, there is one recipe that I invariably prepare: asparagus soup. It's creamy, but light, and rich with the grassy green herbaceous flavor of Read More →
Top Posts from 2011: real food recipes, tutorials and personal stories
2011 came and went so fast. And for Nourished Kitchen, we reached more people this year than we’ve ever reached before and – chances are – you found the site this year Read More →
Perpetual Soup: The Easiest Bone Broth You’ll Make
Bone broth is a staple of my family’s diet. As with healthy fats, heirloom vegetables, grass-fed meats and a good old-fashioned fermented cod liver oil, we consume a lot of Read More →
a recipe for a nasty cold: egg drop soup with duck
Egg drop soup is a favorite in our home: easy to make, rich with flavor and brimming with nutrient-dense ingredients. A far cry from the tepid, gelatinous and oddly yellow Read More →
Curried Lentil Soup with Coconut Milk
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 Read More →
welcoming the first frost: spiced lentil soup with roasted heirloom tomatoes
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 Read More →













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