Posts tagged with ‘pureed soups’

After more than 10 years in Northern California, I no longer handle the cold very well. While I understand a Bay Area winter is nothing compared to the noreasters I endured as a kid, it still gets plenty cold. Cold enough for me to spend most days in my home office bundled up in a fleece and a hat, dreaming [...]

Even though it’s summer, I’ve been on a curry kick lately. As someone who has spent a lot of time sweating over plates of spicy food in hot and humid SE Asia, curry is a year-round meal for me. We’ve already featured curry a few times on this blog; there was our Chicken and Zucchini Green Curry that gave you [...]

If it’s a vegetable, I promise you I’ve tried to puree it into a soup with my immersion blender. And since we’re ingredient spotlighting broccoli this week, I think you can guess what recipe we’re featuring today: a pureed broccoli soup. Every week I place a head of broccoli in my grocery cart, so I’ve developed a pretty good rotation of [...]

In the previous Cauliflower Ingredient Spotlight, we showed you how to make a rich and decadent gratin. In this next recipe, we’re going to present a cauliflower recipe that only tastes and feels rich but lacks those heavy, rich calories. As this blog grows, readers will quickly figure out that I love my immersion blender. Blending soups is one of [...]

This pureed butternut squash soup is the third and last recipe in our butternut squash ingredient spotlight. However, last rarely means least, and it certainly isn’t the case here. In fact I think I’ve saved the best for last, as pureed soups are some of my favorite weeknight meals to make. People will tell you the longer you let a [...]