Sopa de Lima is a Chicken Lime Soup that can be both warm in the winter as well as refreshing in the summer. This recipe has tomato in it, which gives it its color, although most photographs you see of this soup it has a clear chicken broth. The recipe below will serve two people. [...]
Bramboracka Potato Soup
Potatoes are one of my favorite winter vegetables and soup with potatoes in it is one of my favorite meals. Bramboracka Potato Soup is an easy recipe once it’s all put together and simmering on the stove. Some versions of this recipe call for bacon – although this one doesn’t. Like all soups, this one [...]
Kulajda Mushroom Soup
The Czechs are wild about mushrooms. From a very early age, Czechs learn the difference between the edible and the poisonous, the good and the bad, and how to cook them. From July through November, you can find Czechs spending their free time searching the landscape for these gems. One of the ways to enjoy [...]
Sweet Potato Curry Soup
Weather always plays a role in what we eat here in the Bay Area … and today the rain is just pouring outside, with no break in sight. The current storm also arrived on a cold front, so the house is quite chilly too. In an attempt to warm up, I created this warm and [...]
Potage Parmentier
Why Parmentier? A few potato dishes in France are named after Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (1737 – 1813) who is known as the promoter of using potatoes for something more than feeding the barnyard animals. Parmentier was a prisoner in Prussia during the Seven Years War and upon his return home to France in 1763 he could [...]
