Rain, Rain, Go Away. Come Again on Potato and Leek Soup Day
Please, sir ... can I have some more? If ever there was a perfect day for potato and leek soup, two Sundays ago was it. Yeah, sometimes I don’t get around to blogging in a timely manner. Is anyone...
View ArticleLong Beach Soup Swap ’11: Yogurt and Rice Soup is Go!
It’s not like I could pick a boring soup. the bad-ass Mom brigade was gonna be there. No, for Soup Swap ’11, I knew I had to come up with something interesting. But having been laid low, along with the...
View ArticleLong Beach Soup Swap 2011: Pretty Souper
Lined up for inspection I was in fun — albeit intimidating — company last night at the Long Beach Soup Swap ’11. Held at the Bella Cosa Boutique in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood, several of the ‘hood’s...
View ArticleBad Home Cook Kills iPod Speakers with Soup…
This is a special report coming from the Bad Home Cook’s very own daughter, who is slightly better in the kitchen than her mother. My mother was attempting to recreate Potato-Leek soup for my Grandma....
View ArticleAvgolemono Soup: I Can Make It (But I Still Can’t Pronounce It)
My Big Fat Unpronounceable Soup Back when I used to date the Flamenco Guitarist, we would often eat at the Greek cafe across the street from the Spanish restaurant/nightclub where he gigged. We always...
View ArticleCool as a cucumber…soup…
Sliced cucumbers. The G-rated shot When the whole Anthony Wiener scandal broke, my first thought was that I could use a really funny and tasteless photo for a blog post on this chilled cucumber soup I...
View ArticleSoup Swap 2012: This Time, it’s Personal
Please, sir, can I have some more? It’s January again. You know what that means: Time to swap some soup. Now in its sixth year, the Soup Swap has become something of a tradition. I actually held it at...
View ArticleFor Chickpea lovers: Moroccan spiced soup Dos and Don’ts…
DO: Make this soup if you like chickpeas. Because you use three cans of them. DON’T use baby spinach as your green, because they will get slimy (Yes. Sorry) and will be the worst thing about this soup....
View ArticleSouper Bowl Special: Tom Kha Gai soup
SouperBowl Surprise This is the sixth year we’ve done some variation on the national Soup Swap, so obviously we’re playing fast and loose with the rules. The original Soup Swap day of Jan. 21 wasn’t...
View ArticleAtlantic Ave. Stone Soup
The Rock came to my neighborhood today. Literally, down my street, on the main road of my neighborhood. Big rock in a bigger truck It’s a 340 ton rock being transported from a quarry in Riverside...
View ArticleBlueberry-Thyme Soup with Honey Vanilla Mascarpone: It’s what’s for dinner
Hard to believe I’ve been swapping soup with friends and family in these parts since 2007. This year we had our second such soup swap at our friendly neighborhood wine bar. All the big cookers were...
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