1/4 t chili and garlic smoked sea salt (or sea salt)
1 T olive oil
1 C cheese, grated
coleslaw
Instructions
Combine seasonings. Toss potatoes with 1/2 T olive oil and half of seasonings. Bake at 375F for 35 minutes.
Heat pan. Add olive oil. When hot, add onion, bell pepper, and remaining seasonings. Cook for 5 minutes, over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Add garlic, and beans, and cook for 2 minutes. Add soup and cook 3 minutes more, stirring often.
Divide the potatoes into two piles and top with bean mixture and then cheese. Bake 3-5 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
Cook pasta. Reserve 3/4 to 1 C pasta water, then drain and keep warm.
Heat pan, add butter and oil. Let it brown over medium heat. Add broccoli, salt, pepper, and cayenne, and cook over medium or medium-low heat for 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook 1 minute more.
Whisk pasta water with mustard, lemon juice, and maple syrup. Pour over broccoli and cook 1 minute. Remove from heat and let stand while you grate the parmesan cheese. Toss the pasta with the cheese.
Notes
You could change this up so easily to suit your tastes, and what’s in your pantry. Squash, cauliflower, fennel, carrots, onions, more garlic, less garlic… you get the picture. Use what you have and what you like!
I love cold nights warmed by steaming bowls of soup. It’s soup season and I fully intend to take advantage of it. Freshly made, reheated, at home, out with friends… it’s one of my all time favorite comfort foods.
Did you ever watch the Seinfeld episode where they aren’t allowed to buy soup anymore? I always get so frustrated when people have food to eat, on a show, and they can’t. I don’t know why it bothers me so much. But, it does. I think I would be devastated if I had to wait one year to come back for soup.
Do you like fennel? I didn’t think I did. But, I’ve discovered that I do. Especially in Mac and Cheese, roasted, and in soups.
Heat soup pot. Add olive oil. When oil is hot, add fish and cook, over med-low heat for 3 minutes. Add veggies, salt and pepper. Increase heat to medium, and cook covered, for 10 minutes.
Add vinegar, stir to deglaze the pan (scrape off any browned bits from the bottom).
Whisk together flour and 1/4 C water. Add to soup pot. Stir. Add hot water.
Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Cook 15-20 minutes, or until veggies are tender and fish is cooked.
Remove from heat and add milk, cream, and fennel pollen. Stir. Add lemon. Stir. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary.
Heat pan. Add butter and oil and let it brown (be careful that it doesn’t burn). Add shallot and salt, cook 3-5 minutes. Add garlic and cook 1 minute.
Turn heat to low and add cabbage, vinegar, pepper, dijon, and water. Stir. Cook covered, for 10-20 minutes, or until cabbage is tender, stirring occasionally.
1 watermelon radish (or 1/4 Korean daikon radish), quartered
1 rutabaga (or 1 large turnip), peeled, if desired, cut in 6 pieces
2 T butter
1 T olive oil
1-2 t salt
pinch pepper
pinch cayenne
pinch nutmeg
pinch ginger
1 C milk
5 C water (or vegetable stock)
1 t maple syrup
2 t lemon juice (or balsamic vinegar)
croutons, for topping
parmesan cheese, for topping
Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 350F. Drizzle garlic with olive oil and wrap in foil. Toss remaining veggies with olive oil. Place on two baking sheets and roast (flipping once partway through, if desired), for 60-75 minutes (radish, garlic, yams, onion, and rutabaga may take the lesser amount of time). Remove from oven and let cool slightly. Scrape squash pulp from skin, squeeze garlic from skin.
Heat soup pot. Add butter and brown (watch it so it doesn’t burn). Add veggies to browned butter, along with olive oil, and seasonings. Cook 3-5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add water and bring to a boil. Turn heat off, add milk, maple syrup, and lemon juice. Blend with hand blender (or in a regular blender – be sure to remove the plug from the lid and cover with a clean towel) until smooth. Add more water if it’s too thick. Taste, adjust seasoning if desired. Return to heat and cook a few minutes more, but don’t boil.
Serve topped with croutons (cubed bread, tossed with olive oil, salt, and pepper, baked at 350F for 10-15 minutes).