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It’s Soup Season: Barley Soup Johri’s Talvo

Last week it was oxtail soup using the beautiful oxtails from Mohr Animal Acres. Then a “Cheater’s Pho Bo” with canned beef broth, canned chicken broth and a rib-eye steak from Mohr also.

Last night was a hit, Barley Soup, the recipe from Johri’s Talvo in St. Moritz (Switzerland). I didn’t have any Bundnerfleisch [...]

Zuppa di Tartufo Nero (Black Truffle Soup)

black truffle
tuber melanosporum

parsnips
pastinaca sativa

celery root or celeriac
apium graveolens

Black Truffle Soup
Zuppa di Tartufo Nero

Black Truffle Soup

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

1 cup chopped peeled celery root
1/4 cup sliced leeks (rinsed well)
3/4 cup parsnips, chopped roughly
1 lb. boiling potatoes, peeled and chopped roughly
1 thyme sprig
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup water
1 cup chicken broth, preferably homemade
1 1/2 oz. black truffle

1/2 [...]

Lentil, Kale and Sausage Soup

Recipe here.

A quick lunch item or first entree, and healthful too. I used Palacios brand Spanish chorizo as I didn’t have any smoked kielbasa. 8-yo Paco ate it, and he usually dislikes any bean-type soup.

Chicken Tinola

A Filipino soup, flavored with ginger and pepper leaves. The traditional vegetable that goes in it is papaya, but my family prefers chayote squash or christophene (sechium edule). Chayote goes by many names, like mirliton, custard marrow, vegetable pear (probably because of the shape), and mango squash, the last one a bit confusing, [...]