On New Year’s Day I made a big pot of pea soup. It was delicious. The barley adds a nice chewiness, and the bacon is just added at the end, so the bacon naysayers can have theirs plain, leaving more pork of the rest of us.
Posts Tagged as ‘carrots’
August 31, 2008
This week at the farmers market: 8/30/2008
Somehow I seemed to have missed an entire month of the farmers market. I don’t know what happened. I didn’t eat enough zucchini to get sick of it and I certainly haven’t had my fill of tomatoes. I think I only had corn on the cob twice. Yesterday I finally made it back to the [...]
April 3, 2008
Chicken Stock
I’ve been saving up chicken bones and vegetable scraps in my freezer, and this past weekend I made a big pot of chicken stock. It takes all of 15 minutes to get it going, and then you can just leave it to cook itself for a few hours. You’ll end up with a freezer [...]
March 9, 2008
Red Lentil Soup
I’ve never been a big fan of lentil soup. I kind of can’t deal with those big brown lentils. It’s the texture. But then a couple months ago I saw this recipe in the New York Times. It reminded me of the delicious lentil soup at the Middle Eastern restaurant around the corner from my [...]
