Korean slow-cooked beef bone soup (seolleong tang)

It took nearly all day to make, and the broth isn’t as milky-white as at restaurants, but it still is tasty. The secret, I learned midway, is to keep the soup at a roiling boil, not at a simmer. We served this with short-grain rice and thin wheat noodles (Korean somyun or Japanese somen), garnishing… Continue reading Korean slow-cooked beef bone soup (seolleong tang)

Greek chicken stew with cauliflower and olives

Recipe here: http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12308-greek-chicken-stew-with-cauliflower-and-olives. Instead of ½ tsp cinnamon, we used ¼ tsp each cinnamon and nutmeg, and we added a bay leaf. We served this with Greek spinach rice with dill (spanakorizo); recipe here: http://piglettedc.tumblr.com/post/114321759431/greek-spinach-rice-with-dill-spanakorizo-recipe. (Nov. 2015)

Roasted turkey matzoh ball soup

We decided to use our leftover turkey to make one of our favorite soups.  We generally followed the recipe in my blog:  piglettedc.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/chicken-matzoh-ball-soup-recipe-from/.  However, we made a few adjustments:  first, in lieu of a whole chicken, we used the carcass from our 14 lb Thanksgiving roast turkey. Second, because the turkey broth flavor seemed thin,… Continue reading Roasted turkey matzoh ball soup

Curried yellow split pea soup

Straightforward recipe that takes less than an hour to make. It tastes creamy yet is dairy-free. For the 1 Tbsp curry powder, we used 1 ½ tsp McCormick curry powder and 1 ½ tsp Jamaican curry powder. If you use vegetable stock instead of chicken broth, this can be vegetarian. We used an immersion blender… Continue reading Curried yellow split pea soup

Lebanese meatball soup (shorba keema)

For the meatball mixture, combine 1/3 cup minced onion (patted dry with paper towels), ¼ cup finely chopped Italian parsley, 1 ½ tsp balsamic vinegar, ½ tsp salt, ¼ tsp each black pepper and allspice, 1/8 tsp cinnamon, and 1/16 tsp each cloves and nutmeg. Mix by hand, then using a mounded tsp, form by… Continue reading Lebanese meatball soup (shorba keema)

Italian winter minestrone soup

Recipe from Giada de Laurentiis is here: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/winter-minestrone-recipe.html We used thick-cut bacon (cut into matchsticks, browned, and set aside before the first step of the recipe and the added back in at the last step) and increased the beef broth from 3 ½ cups to 4 cups. We also used a very small sprig of… Continue reading Italian winter minestrone soup