All hail the pressure cooker! Once again our favourite handy-dandy appliance delivers timely tastiness to your table with flavours so complex, you’ll think this soup’s been simmering since Cinco de Mayo. I know I have professed my undying love for pressure cookers on numerous occasions, but it’s not all fantastic foods and easy living: I [...]
Burn the Sick Out Soup
On April - 7 - 2011
I am sick. So, achy, chest cold-y, wretchy, fever-y, chill-y, gross-y yuck sick. But, you know what? I’m craftier than some stupid invasive infection! I’m gonna burn the mutha out. Garlic, ginger, chillies, Sriracha–burn, burn, you’re gonna burn, little buggies! Yet, despite the multitude of spicy ingredients, this soup is more warming than scorching (although, [...]
Shitake Soup With Wild Wakame
On March - 25 - 2011
Who knew local food could taste so exotic? This simple soup is delicately flavoured with winged sea kelp, an ingredient that is abundant in our area of the world and needlessly feared by wimpy palates everywhere. Yes, we all learned quickly to avoid getting tangled in the stuff whilst frolicking in the waves as wee [...]
Garden Beet Soup
On March - 6 - 2011
Beets are great. My Grandpa Mac grew them in his garden and I was always very excited when he felt like sharing. The colour of beets never ceases to amaze me: technocolour vegetables, they are definitely one of the most beautiful things we’ll ever get the pleasure to eat. And if bright colours equal healthfulness, [...]
Mushroom Leek Soup With Black Eyed Peas and Collards
On December - 21 - 2010
I was all set to post a “not angry, just disappointed” product review tonight and then I saw this tempting brew and got all inspired and such. Isa Chandra hits the nail on its teensy little head when she exults simplicity in soup and her recipe made me hungry for a soup to call my [...]
Fat Free Vegan Potato Leek Soup
On November - 26 - 2010
Vegan MoFo IV, Day #26, Week #4: Vegan Mish Mash and Whatnot Who’s got two thumbs and went out last night? This vegan blogstess (hmmm…that schtick works better in person). It’s got to be an indisputable medical fact that soup is a miraculous elixir, capable of coursing through the bodies of the ailing, creating a [...]
Curried Yam and Lentil Soup
On October - 7 - 2010
If you have a pressure cooker (and trust me, YOU NEED TO HAVE A PRESSURE COOKER), this soup cooks up so darn fast and flavourful, it brings a tear to the eye. But you won’t regret filling your home with the sweet and savoury scent of soup using the traditional or slow cooker methods either. [...]
