Soups

First Summer Squash of the Year & the Last of the Sugar Snap Peas

21 July 2011 by Jean Johnson
Letting the seasons change what's on your plate is such a groove. Tonight it took the form of flash cooking a just-pulled cippolini onion from last fall's planting, a minced clove of garlic, whole sugar snaps, a green and yellow zucc sliced off on the diagonal, and a chop of ...

From the Garden to the Table, During All Four Seasons–Mostly

20 December 2010 by Jean Johnson
So far so good. I've still not bought fresh produce (except pomegranates, lemons, and some Clementines) and since the slim garden days of last spring. It's getting to be slim pickins' for sure given Portland's November snow storm that way laid my broccoli and gave the kale and cabbage a ...

Summer Soups, Smoothies & Strawberry Mint Ice

19 June 2009 by Jean Johnson
It started with Cucumber Melon Soup in Cooking Beyond Measure (page 105)--this business of whizzing up delicious concoctions in the blender. Historically, of course, my affair with blended things began with smoothies in the Sixties--the old faithful banana-yogurt-honey-wheat germ routine. Given such a sagacious history, it hasn't been ...

Soupy Soup with Cauliflower and Limas

28 March 2009 by Jean Johnson
Soupy Soup, a dish from Cooking  Beyond Measure, is named after the elderly lady doggie who used to live next door. The spring day I first pulled the soup together, the weather was warm enough to draw me and my bowl outside. Who was waiting by the daffodils but the ...

Cucumber Melon Soup Gets Ink in The Washington Post

31 August 2008 by Jean Johnson
It's been a year to date that cucumber melon soup first got mention here on the blog. No wonder, cucumbers are hanging heavy on the vines and spilling out of produce bins everywhere when harvest rolls around. So too, the melons--sweet, ripe, and fragrant at summer's end. Not really a surprise then, that ...

It’s a Celebration on a Theme of Melon, Cashews, and Cilantro

22 August 2008 by Jean Johnson
Our dear Cooking Beyond Measure has arrived at last, and along with her beaming mother, her aunties and uncles are loving this new member of the family. She's such a sweetie she already has nicknames--Beyond Measure came first and now some are simply calling her Beyond. By whatever name, she's off ...

Be(ets) My Valentine Soup

15 February 2008 by Jean Johnson
Beets. So red in their heart of hearts. Even yellow beets seem to speak of love this time of year. Be(ets) My Valentine Soup Recipe Note All it takes to make this ultrafast soup is boiling some beets, slipping their skins off and carving them into wedges, flash cooking ...

Hot and Sour Thai Soup Sings of the Tropics

9 January 2008 by Jean Johnson
This takes me back to Bangkok where I watched the gracious Daeng Arporn Punlert make tom yam goong, or hot and sour shrimp soup, many times. Here's what I wrote down one day while she was in action: Hot and Sour Thai Soup Recipe Note (Cooking Beyond Measure, p. 92) Boil the shells from ...

Salmon Chowder

1 October 2007 by Jean Johnson
I'm half Norwegian, and we love cold salmon and cucumbers. Still, when fall starts to bluster, there's nothing like chowder.I made the one pictured just for myself out of fish left over from roasted salmon. Salmon Chowder Cooking Beyond Measure, p. 108 This takes all of five minutes if you have some roasted ...