edible ventures

Looking for a soup that is transcendentally delicious?  Yep, this is it.   Here we have another example of how well zucchini pairs with fres...

Holy lord is this soup spicy.  Granted, I made the bold choice of leaving the seeds in our serrano peppers.  I think we each drank two glass...

Soup doesn't need to be fancy or complicated to be completely delicious.  This recipe is for an extremely humble soup; the kind of thing...

My husband and I are both coming down with nasty colds right now, so soup was the obvious choice for dinner tonight.  This soup is packed wi...

I've raved about the glories of chili before, both white and red .  It's easy to make, it's delicious, and it has endless possi...

The name of this recipe is a bit of a puzzle, if you ask me.  There is buttermilk in this soup, but it doesn't make it creamy so much as...

This is a simple and quick soup to pull together.  You just need a couple of interesting ingredients in your pantry (namely Thai curry paste...

When I was in law school, we often went to a Greek restaurant called Taverna Tony for lunch.  It was right down the street, and it had (free...

I love tortilla soup.  I've posted before about how much I love it.   Part of what makes it so amazing is how different it is every tim...

Lentils don't appear to be a particularly interesting food group, but India has given them a whole new life in the form of dal.  Dal tak...

My first exposure to Thai food was many years ago, and the dish was tom yum gai, an explosively flavorful soup.  I fell in love immediately....

Chili is a glorious universe.  There are so many variations, and I don't begin to claim that I know what the "best" variation ...

The Barefoot Contessa knows soup.  She knows that the secret to a delicious and remarkably flavorful soup is to roast the vegetables first....

We're having some crazy rainy weather here in southern California right now, so it seems like the right time for a big pot of heart- an...

This week's pick on Craving Ellie in My Belly is a very different sort of soup.  Ellie's name for it suggests it is primarily pea...

I'm back!! And just in time for the new year.  We had a lovely vacation earlier this week, which is why I haven't been posting at...

Cool weather = soup weather.  It's a pretty simple equation.  This soup is a particularly tasty and hearty one - a smooth mixture of c...

Today I did something questionable in the kitchen, and it actually turned out pretty great.  I took a fairly elegant soup recipe and turned...

Obviously it is not uncommon for me to try cooking something I've never cooked before.  But occasionally I am so crazy that I try cooki...

This is the time of year when the weather has taken a turn for the cooler side, but we still have some remaining summer produce at the loc...