Soup & Stew

How To Make Basic Tofu & Wakame Miso Soup

Tofu & Wakame Miso Soup Makes 3 -4 servings 3 1/2 cups dashi 1 tablespoon dried wakame, soaked in water for 5 minutes then drained 1 package enoki mushrooms (about 3 ounces), trimmed (optional) 3 tablespoons miso (I use 2 tablespoons shiro miso and 1 tablespoon aka miso) 5 – 7 ounces firm tofu, cut […]

Ichiban Dashi (First Sea Stock) Makes 4 cups 4 cups water 16 — 20 square inches of kombu* 1/2 cup loosely packed katsuobushi 1. Place the water and the kombu in a pot and let the kombu soak for about 15 minutes. Place the pot over medium heat. Right before the water starts to boil […]

Coconut Curry Wild Rice Soup, aka “Sunshine Soup” Adapted from Super Natural Cooking, by Heidi Swanson Makes 5 to 6 servings 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 teaspoons red curry paste 2 large cloves garlic, minced 2 yellow onions, chopped 1 cup wild rice, rinsed 4 cups water 1 yellow-fleshed sweet potato, peeled and cut into […]

Chef Hiro Sone’s Niku-Jaga

Memory is a powerful tool, especially when it comes to food. I recently got a cookbook called Cooking from the Heart, a book put together by the organization Share Our Strength. The book features recipes from one hundred of the country's well-known chefs. The book is wonderful. Usually I love cookbooks with lots of pictures–I […]

Black Bean Kabocha Soup

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” –George Eliot Autumn is my favorite time of year. I love the crispness of the air, the scent of fires lit in fireplaces, the colors of the leaves and of […]

Roasted Kabocha Squash Soup

I love soup and could eat it every day of the week. It just never gets boring because of the endless combinations, and is comforting and yummy. I especially love soup during summer, go figure! Lately I’ve been craving two of my favorite soups, Butternut Soup and Tom Khai Gai, so I’m sure we’ll be […]

Come-to-the-Rescue Chicken Soup

Hello LFM readers! Thank you so much for all of your kind comments! Little Fuji is doing well and I am recovering nicely. However, I’m not quite ready to take back the reins here and so you have the opportunity to hear from a few more of my favorite people in the meantime while I […]

Potato Soup for the Soul

Not being able to do any real cooking lately has been insanely frustrating! I’m just itching to get back into the kitchen. But Little Fuji #2 will be here soon and I’ll be allowed to be back on my feet again–WAHOO! It’s a good thing that I have had people willing to come and use […]

Comfort Chicken, Orzo, and Ginger Soup

I’m achy and tired and am not sleeping well . . . no, I’m not sick, just pregnant! In a visit to my doc last week she informed me that my belly has grown abnormally large (no wonder I’m so achy and tired)! Aaaah, the joys of pregnancy. Although it is currently pregnancy that ails […]

Butternut Soup in My French Kitchen

“We came on the wind of the carnival. A warm wind for February, laden with the hot greasy scents of frying pancakes and sausages and powdery-sweet waffles cooked on the hot plate right there by the roadside, with the confetti sleeting down collars and cuffs and rolling in the gutters like an idiot antidote to […]

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