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Soups & Stews – surviving the food allergy apocalypse (archive)

Category: Soups & Stews

Soup [soop], noun: a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients. Stew [stoo, styoo], noun: a preparation of meat, fish, or other food cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat and vegetables. These recipes will not contain dairy, eggs, gluten, wheat or hazelnuts. If we use a top 8 allergen, we will use a tag warning of its use.

  • Ox Tail Noodle Soup

    Ox Tail Noodle Soup

    It’s Elements Month! Yeah, you read right. Elements. Earth, Fire, Air, and Water. Four Mondays in November, four elements to be inspired by. Why not?

    This year, we made a plan via Skype — monthly themes to inspire us. We used to get together more often to plan our editorial calendar, but now we do it via Skype, bi-coastally. It is distinctly possible that we were a little loopy by the time we got to November, so here you have ELEMENTS MONTH.

    I’m kicking it off with water. After all, Cancer is a water sign, right? Plus it’s November and it snowed all weekend and we are ready for soup. I was inspired by a broth my friend Ann told me about which basically used time to extract maximum flavor from ox tails, an excellent flavoring bone that has some good tender meat on it as a bonus, and a few simple vegetables. This broth is easy, but it takes time. You should definitely make it ahead of when you want to use it. Ox tails should be available from most butchers and many grocery stores can get them or have them in the back. Ask.

    5 Oxtails on a Styrofoam tray
    Oxtails

    The only other “special” ingredient would be the thinly sliced beef, something I’ve gotten used to being able to get — raw meat sliced as thinly as cold cuts wasn’t something I’d seen on the east coast, but it means that the broth’s heat will cook it as part of your soup and it adds a whole other dimension to the soup. If you can’t get it, skip it, but it is worth trying to find or cut on your own.

    Ramen, Thinly-sliced Beef, Toppings

    Oh! The noodles! I’ve found gluten-free ramen noodles at a few places in Seattle, including Whole Foods, the Capitol Co-op, and a few natural food stores. The ones in this dish are forbidden rice noodles. If you can’t find gluten-free ramen, I’d suggest using rice noodles of some sort, but not gluten-free spaghetti. Most grocery stores carry pad thai rice noodles in their “Asian foods” section, and those will work okay.

    This recipe is two parts — first, you make the broth, which should be done at least the day before. Then you use the broth to make soup. The broth is incredibly simple, but takes about 4 hours to make just because you simmer everything forever. The soup is actually kind of complicated, as I spent a lot of last month learning about ramen, and I’ve used that knowledge here. For traditional ramen, the broth, noodles, and soup toppings are all cooked separately. I’ve used that here to make a soup with a great variety of textures — but know that this is a soup that you might want to just take your time and enjoy making as well as eating. Don’t try it on a work night or when you’re rushed.

    As I’ve said in the recipe, this soup will be made in two pots and a skillet, all at once, and I’ve tried to give you good instructions to get through that if you’re not used to 3 things going at once. The soup comes together in layers, as shown below, and that gives you a variety of textures.

    Soup steps: first, noodles. Second, raw beef and scallions. Third, broth. Fourth, skillet of toppings.

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    Ox Tail Noodle Soup
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    Broth recipe probably makes about 5 servings, but this soup less than half. Use the rest for drinking, cooking grains, or more soup.
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    2 bowlsn
    Servings
    2 bowlsn
    Ox Tail Noodle Soup
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    Broth recipe probably makes about 5 servings, but this soup less than half. Use the rest for drinking, cooking grains, or more soup.
    Servings
    2 bowlsn
    Servings
    2 bowlsn
    Ingredients
    Ox Tail Broth
    • 2 lbs ox tails
    • cold water to cover the ox tails by about an inch
    • pinch salt
    • 1 whole roma tomato washed
    • 1 celery stalk
    • 1 carrot
    • 1 onion quartered
    • 5 sprigs parsley, leaves only
    Ox Tail Noodle Soup
    • 2 cups ox tail broth fat skimmed off top
    • water enough to cook your noodles
    • 2 cakes gluten-free ramen noodles
    • 1 Tablespoon fat (I used the fat from the broth)
    • 4 scallions thinly sliced, whites and greens separated
    • 2 carrots sliced as thinly as possible
    • 5 shitake mushrooms chopped
    • pinch salt
    • 1/2 cup ox tail meat pulled from bone, excess fat and cartilege removed
    • 3 slices steak thinly sliced for hot pot – optional but awesome.
    • 1 lemon cut into quarters
    Servings: bowlsn
    Instructions
    Ox Tail Broth
    1. Put the ox tails in a large stock pot and cover with cold water by about 1 inch. Add a generous pinch of salt. Put over low heat, about 2 on my electric stove. NOTE — it will take more than half an hour for the water to simmer. Low and slow is how the flavor comes out.
    2. Meanwhile, prep the vegetables. Wash the tomato, carrot, and celery. Chop the carrot and celery really roughly — about 2 inch segments. Leave the tomato whole. Pull all the parsley leaves off the stalks and discard the stems. Peel and quarter the onion.
    3. When the water has reached a steady simmer, add all the veg. Simmer for three hours. If it gets foamy, skim it.
    4. Cool and remove the ox tails to store separately. Remove the vegetables and discard. Store the broth in the fridge overnight.
    Ox Tail Noodle Soup
    1. You will need three cooking pots for this. One for boiling enough water to cook the noodles. One for heating your broth. One skillet for cooking your soup toppings. Figure out which burners will work best for this setup before you start, as you’ll be using all of them at once.
    2. Get the broth started. You want to reheat this on low until it’s about boiling, so it will take a while.
    3. First, do all your veggie prep. Chop the scallions and separate the green and white parts (light green goes with the white). Chop the mushrooms, slice the carrots as thinly as possible. Remove the meat from the ox tails — you will likely need to cut the fat off the outside, and watch out for the cartilage on the inside — remove that.
    4. Add about half of the green parts of the scallions to the broth. Measuring here is really not important. Eyeball it.
    5. You can either skim the fat off the soup and use that to fry up the veg, or use a fat of your choice. Put this in your skillet over medium heat.
    6. Next, start the noodle water. Use however much water your package directions show.
    7. When you skillet and fat are hot, add the onions and stir for several minutes until translucent.
    8. Next add the carrots and mushrooms and stir well. Add a generous pinch of salt. Wait until the mushrooms have wilted and given off their liquid before you start the noodles.
    9. Cook your noodles according to the package directions.
    10. Right before the noodles are done, add the ox tail meat to the skillet and stir well.
    11. Drain your noodles and set up your bowls.
    12. Here’s how your bowls go: Add noodles at the bottom. Add a thin layer of your raw beef. This will be cooked by the broth. Add your broth. Add the toppings from the skillet. Add a squeeze of lemon over everything. Enjoy.
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  • Vichyssoise — dairy-free

    Vichyssoise — dairy-free

    Photo shows two bowls of soup
    Vichyssoise — cold potato cream soup with cashew cream, dill, and scallions on top

    I am cheating here. You should know that up front. It is still condiment month around here, but rules that we make for ourselves are made to be broken, right? I could work out a long reason to connect cold potato soup, Memorial Day observances, and condiments, but let’s not. Let’s say that it’s getting hot here — into the 80s (F), and I didn’t feel like any more tests of sweet and sour sauce, which heats up the kitchen cooking and isn’t even a meal when you’re done!

    So! Cold soup. I have tried a variety of cold soups over the years (avocado soup, gazpacho) and never been thrilled — I had an excellent gazpacho in Spain, but I’ve never been able to reproduce it. I think missing the Spanish heat, the low latitude sun, the glass of wine, and the cool dark bar might be the problem there! But this is potatoes, my raison de cuisiner, and I thought it would be a great way to supplement the spinach salads that are becoming a staple dinner around here. This is a smooth, velvety soup.

    I used the really great run down of vichyssoise at the Cafe Luna site as a starting place. I’ve made the soup dairy-free. It seems like it’s naturally gluten-free, but neither my version nor the inspiration are vegan, as chicken broth seems the common broth choice, and I had homemade broth to use. I think you could use a veggie broth, but I wouldn’t recommend a boxed one, as most are a bit bland, and you’d want to adjust the oil to add more fat for a smoother soup, I think. I’ve made a cashew cream for the milk substitute, as I find it the richest and most neutral milk substitute for cooking. Again, I think you could substitute other non-dairy milks — soy would work fine, I think. If you used almond milk, I’d add a bit of apple cider vinegar, which I often use to “cancel” the sweetness; this might also work for coconut milk. If you used rice milk, make your own with less water and add more olive oil.

    I strongly believe in garnish, and I really look forward to trying some of the fancier combinations in the link above. For this iteration, I’ve just used scallions and a sprinkle of dill on top.


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    Vichyssoise (dairy-free)
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    Vichyssoise (dairy-free)
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    Ingredients
    Cashew Cream
    • 3/4 cup raw cashew pieces (pieces are cheaper than whole), soaked overnight
    • 3/4 cup water
    • 1 teaspoon olive oil
    • 2 pinches kosher salt
    Soup
    • 1 medium onion about baseball sized, chopped
    • 2 Tablespoons olive oil
    • 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
    • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
    • 2 lbs yellow potatoes, peeled and chopped
    • 6 cups chicken stock
    • soup toppings of choice
    Servings:
    Instructions
    1. Drain soaked cashews, and add to blender or food processor with water, olive oil, and salt. Blend until very smooth, then refrigerate.
    2. Add olive oil to soup pot and heat over medium heat. Add onions to hot oil along with salt. Cook, stirring often, until translucent but not yet browned.
    3. Add garlic and stir well. Then add potatoes, stir, and add broth. Cover pot and bring to a boil. Lower heat to simmer until potatoes are falling apart. The time for this will vary depending on the size of your potatoes, but plan 20-40 minutes for the average cubing sizes.
    4. Remove pot from heat and puree with a stick blender. If you don’t have a stick blender, cool the soup and then transfer to a regular blender, carefully, in batches if needed.
    5. Puree soup until smooth, and then add cashew cream and blend thoroughly.
    6. Chill until cold, and serve topped with whatever strikes your fancy. The photos here are a sprinkle of dill, a drizzle of cashew cream, and some chopped scallions.
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    I do think that, in a pinch, vichyssoise might make an interesting sauce on a grain bowl — and therefore would be a condiment? If you try it, let me know!

     

  • Potato Corn Chowder

    Potato Corn Chowder

    Potato Corn Chowder
    Potato Corn Chowder

    We are definitely experiencing soup weather here in Seattle. I keep making the mistake of looking at the high temperature for the day and dressing as though it wouldn’t be cold and damp somehow. Seattle is more prone to wild swings of weather than I expected (thundersnow, anyone?), and I think soup weather might be around for a while. That works for me — soup is one of the easiest dishes to make ahead and eat all week. I have made a corn soup before, a brothy stew that capitalized on the end of summer fresh corn. This is an end-of-winter stew, hearty chowder, but using the breaking down potato starch and a can of creamed corn (which contains corn starch) to thicken up the soup and make it creamy.

    This soup is quick enough for a weeknight meal, but reheats amazingly well so it also makes good lunch leftovers. I’ve said the recipe makes 3 servings, as that seems to be how it works out for us, but if you’re lighter eaters, or if this is an appetizer or side, it might make 4.


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    Potato Corn Chowder
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    An easy, creamy, dairy-free vegan chowder
    Servings Prep Time
    3 servings 10 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    30 minutes 30 minutes
    Servings Prep Time
    3 servings 10 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    30 minutes 30 minutes
    Potato Corn Chowder
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    An easy, creamy, dairy-free vegan chowder
    Servings Prep Time
    3 servings 10 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    30 minutes 30 minutes
    Servings Prep Time
    3 servings 10 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    30 minutes 30 minutes
    Ingredients
    • 1 Tablespoon olive oil
    • 1 whole leek white and light green only
    • 4 cups red potatoes diced
    • 1 teaspoon dill
    • 1/2 teaspoon roasted garlic powder (or 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder)
    • 4 cups vegetable stock
    • 1 can (15oz) creamed corn
    • 1 cup corn fresh or frozen
    • scallion tops
    • freshly ground pepper
    Servings: servings
    Instructions
    1. Heat oil over medium heat in a large saucepan. When hot, add chopped leeks and sautee 5-10 minutes.
    2. Chop the potatoes unevenly. Cut about half of a cup of potatoes into a smaller dice so that they will start to break down by the time the larger potato cubes are cooked.
    3. Add potatoes and spices and stir well. Then add stock. Bring to a boil and then turn down to a simmer. Cook until potatoes are soft, and then another 5-10 minutes until the smaller ones start breaking down.
    4. Add the creamed corn and stir well. Then add the frozen or fresh corn. When the soup has returned to a boil, serve topped with scallion tops and pepper.
    Recipe Notes

    NOTE: In a pinch, you can replace the leek with the bottoms of the scallions with only a small difference in taste. I think the leek is a smoother taste, but the scallions were fine in a pinch. If you DO just use the tops, go ahead and regrow them by putting the root ends in a cup of water.

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  • Roasted Yam Soup

    Roasted Yam Soup

    Roasted Yam Soup
    Roasted Yam Soup

    IMPORTANT CONTENT NOTE: Those of you who hate cilantro, sorry. Please go Google one of the 100,000 other root vegetable soups out there. I know, your condition is genetic, and I’m sorry for you. This soup lives and breathes cilantro, and if you leave it out, there will be no point in making this particular soup recipe. Come again?

    For those of you still here, hi. Welcome to another edition of “MaryKate made soup, and it’s not very pretty, but I swear it tastes good anyway.” I’m your host, MaryKate, and, yes. I made soup. In my first months here in Seattle, I’m exploring new grocery stores and new ingredients, and as it is fall, there are so many root vegetables out. Most of them I know, but I’m seeing so many different things beyond just “sweet potatoes” and “yams.” To be honest, I don’t care which they are — I buy and bake any of them. But recently, I’ve found myself with 1 or 2 each of 4 different kinds of tubers all labeled “yam” with no other identifying information. In order to compare them, I’ve roasted them — and they are different! Starchier, sweeter, more mild. And all the colors! Yam love. Honestly, the most impressive flavor were the boring white ones — a bit sweeter and starchier than regular sweet potatoes, and really tasty.

    Blending these into soup was a great decision. The cilantro lightens the earthy flavor of the tubers and really makes it something different — hearty, but not heavy, and somehow, fresh.

    yams-collage
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    Roasted Yam Soup
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    Servings Prep Time
    6 servings 60 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    60 minutes 30 minutes
    Servings Prep Time
    6 servings 60 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    60 minutes 30 minutes
    Roasted Yam Soup
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    Servings Prep Time
    6 servings 60 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    60 minutes 30 minutes
    Servings Prep Time
    6 servings 60 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    60 minutes 30 minutes
    Ingredients
    • 3.5 lbs. yams and sweet potatoes Get everything you can find — why not?
    • 1/2 lb. rutabega
    • 1-2 Tablespoons olive oil
    • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
    • 3/4 cup onion
    • 6 cups vegetable stock
    • 1 cup cilantro chopped + more for garnish
    Servings: servings
    Instructions
    1. Preheat oven to 450ºF.
    2. Peel and chop yams, sweet potatoes, rutabega, and onion. Go for about 1/2 inch cubes, but really, just try to get them all about the same size.
    3. Put all chopped vegetables into a bowl. Add the olive oil and salt and stir to coat. Start with the smaller amount of olive oil, but add more if you need it. You don’t want greasy, but you do want everything fully coated.
    4. Bake for 30-45 minutes, until all the vegetables begin to brown. This is where so much flavor is born.
    5. When you have about 15 minutes left of cooking, heat your stock and cilantro in a large soup pot over medium-low heat.
    6. When the roasted vegetables are done and the soup stock is simmering, add the veg to the stock. Stir well, and then puree. A stick blender is the easiest way to do this, but use a blender if that’s what you’ve got. When you have a nice thick puree, heat thoroughly (takes only a few minutes) and stir well.
    7. Serve with an added sprinkle of cilantro for extra flavor.
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  • End of Winter Stew

    End of Winter Stew

    End of Winter Stew with Rice
    End of Winter Stew with Rice

    I made this for our first day of spring blizzard. Because in New England, we have a first day of spring blizzard, right? Basically, it’s a bunch of what I’d consider staple ingredients that I nearly always have in the house, spiced up with a small amount of spicy sausage I had leftover and froze.

    So it’s a veg-forward, but not vegetarian, dish. If you wanted to make it vegan, leave out the sausage, make sure you use vegetable broth, and up the spices by a good bit (add some hot sauce, if that’s your thing).

    This was a great soup/stew for that week where it was a little cold in the mornings and merely chilly at noon. It’s warm and warming, but it is also rather light. Serve with or without rice.

    End of Winter Stew without Rice
    End of Winter Stew without Rice

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    End of Winter Stew
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    A quick, warming, but light mostly vegetable stew
    Servings Prep Time
    6-8 people 20 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    40 minutes 20 minutes
    Servings Prep Time
    6-8 people 20 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    40 minutes 20 minutes
    End of Winter Stew
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    A quick, warming, but light mostly vegetable stew
    Servings Prep Time
    6-8 people 20 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    40 minutes 20 minutes
    Servings Prep Time
    6-8 people 20 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    40 minutes 20 minutes
    Ingredients
    • 1.5-2 cups onion, chopped (2 smaller onions)
    • 1/2 teaspoon salt
    • 1+ teaspoon olive oil
    • 2 cups sweet potatoes, cubed (one large)
    • 2 teaspoons garlic, chopped
    • 2 cups celery, chopped
    • 8 ounces (1 pkg) mushrooms, broken into pieces
    • 3.5-4 cups soup stock vegetable or chicken, your preference
    • 1 1/4 teaspoons seafood seasoning I used Penzey’s Chesapeake Bay
    • 15 ounces navy beans, cooked (drained and rinsed if canned)
    • 1/2+ cup andouille sausage, chopped (make sure this is safe for you), also, optional if you want to make it vegan
    Servings: people
    Instructions
    1. In a large stock pot over medium heat, add the onion, olive oil, and salt, stirring well. You may need more olive oil if you are using a larger pot than I did, or one with a “stickier” surface.
    2. When the onion begins to brown, add the rest of the ingredients in the order listed. Between each addition, pause to stir well. When adding the garlic, give it an extra minute — add more when you can smell the garlic cooking.
    3. When all of your ingredients have been added, cover the pot and let it come to a boil. Texture-wise, letting it come to a boil from medium heat seems to turn out a less mushy stew than turning the heat up to high.
    4. Once you’ve reached boiling, turn the heat down to low (but still simmering) and remove the lid. Cook 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sweet potato is soft.
    5. This is really good served over rice, which will stretch the number of servings, but is also great alone.
    Recipe Notes

    If you plan to leave out the sausage for a vegan version, add more of the seafood seasoning and a pinch of cayenne or a few dashes of hot sauce to  get the warming heat of the spicy sausage. It’s there for flavor, not protein.

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  • Blue Squash Ginger Soup

    blue squash ginger soup
    blue squash ginger soup

    This soup was inspired by the huge fragment of a Blue Hubbard Squash I bought because I wanted to try one. But then I had to figure out what to do with 3.5 lbs of squash. That’s too much roasted squash to be reasonable, so I figured why not soup.

    Blue hubbard is weirdly blue-ish on the outside, and lighter and yellower than butternut squash on the inside. It’s a subtler flavor than butternut, in the best way possible. For lack of a better description, it’s a “cleaner” squash taste. It’s really good. I really liked the blue hubbard, and despite the fact that hacking it up is a bit of a chore, I will definitely buy more of it.

    Because it’s chock full of ginger, I think this would also be a soothing soup if you weren’t feeling well. It’s a pretty straightforward recipe, but plan a little time for hacking at the squash with your biggest, sharpest knife. It’s light enough that it might make a good opener for Thanksgiving if soup or squash are on the menu, but a big bowl with a salad would also make a decent lunch.


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    Ginger Squash Soup
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    A nice soup for a first course (if you are inclined to serve first courses) or any cold winter day. The coconut milk is nice, but completely optional, so feel free to omit it.
    Servings Prep Time
    1.5 quarts 15 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    50 minutes 30 minutes
    Servings Prep Time
    1.5 quarts 15 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    50 minutes 30 minutes
    Ginger Squash Soup
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    A nice soup for a first course (if you are inclined to serve first courses) or any cold winter day. The coconut milk is nice, but completely optional, so feel free to omit it.
    Servings Prep Time
    1.5 quarts 15 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    50 minutes 30 minutes
    Servings Prep Time
    1.5 quarts 15 minutes
    Cook Time Passive Time
    50 minutes 30 minutes
    Ingredients
    • 6 cups vegetable stock check for allergens if using commercial stock
    • 3.5 pounds blue hubbard squash (weight prior to removing rind)
    • 2 Tablespoons olive oil
    • 2 medium onions sliced thin for quicker cooking, about 2 cups
    • 2 inches fresh ginger peeled and grated
    • 1 Tablespoon garlic minced
    • 2 Tablespoons coconut milk OR other non-dairy milk, optional
    Servings: quarts
    Recipe Notes

    Cut large squash chunk into smaller chunks. Then cut rind off and cut remaining squash into large — 2 inch cube — chunks.

    Bring 6 cups of vegetable stock (or water and bouillon) to a boil in a large soup or stock pot. Add squash and cook until tender, about 20-30 minutes, but could vary based on the size of your chunks.

    Drain the squash, but reserve the liquid. Either scoop out the squash with a slotted spoon, or put a colander into a large heat-safe bowl and dump. You will use most, but not all, of the stock to make the soup.

    Saute the onions in the olive oil. When the onions are translucent and beginning to brown, add the ginger, stirring well, and the garlic, also stirring well. When these are fragrant, add the squash; stir well.

    Add about 4 cups of the reserved stock, more if needed to cover all the squash, and bring the entire pot to a boil. Simmer for about 20 minutes.

    Puree the soup, preferably using an immersion blender, but carefully in a blender or food processor if you need to. Add the soup back to the pot if you removed it, and add the coconut milk or other non-dairy milk if using. Taste, and add salt or pepper if needed. Allow to simmer a few more minutes to blend in the milks, and serve hot.

     

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  • Curried Apple Bisque

    Curried Apple Bisque
    Curried Apple Bisque

    As some of you know, I bought a house in January with a lot of fruit trees. So now I have a lot of apples. I may very well drown in them.  Besides the massive amounts of canning I’ve been doing, I thought I’d looking into using them in a savory dish too.  And since I needed to use my DIY Curry Powder in something, I figured why not shoot two birds with one stone. After looking at a few different recipes I decided I wanted less of a soup feel and more of a bisque feel, so I decided to use the homemade cashew milk I had in the freezer. If you have a safe commercial dairy replacement product, feel free to use it (I don’t) or if you can have coconut milk (I can’t) that might also work well. Free feel to make it work for you.

    Curried Apple Bisque

    • I medium onion, finely diced
    • 2 Tablespoons of olive oil (or other safe for you oil)
    • 1 teaspoon of curry powder (I used my DIY Curry Powder)
    • 1/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
    • 1/8 teaspoon of salt
    • a dash or two of cayenne pepper (depending on your spice needs)
    • a dash of ground cloves
    • 3 1/2 cups of peeled, cored, and sliced McIntosh apples  (about 3-4 apples)
    • 2 cups of vegetable stock (I used my home canned version of our Roasted Vegetable Stock)
    • 1 1/2 cups of homemade cashew milk or other replacement dairy product (for cashew milk, I use this recipe, except I leave everything out except the cashews and water)
    • a bit of cinnamon to garnish if you wish

    Peel, core and slice your apples. I have this lovely apple peeler, corer, and slicer, that makes it really easy to do, but a knife works fine too.

    Peeling and coring apples
    Peeling and coring apples

     

    Peeled, cored and sliced apples
    Peeled, cored and sliced apples

    In a small saucepan, saute the onion in the olive oil, until tender and it starts to look translucent.

    Sauteed onions
    Sauteed onions

    Once the onions are sauteed, add the curry powder, cinnamon, salt, cayenne pepper, and ground clove to the onions.  Mix the spices in well and cook for a minute or so. It’s going to smell amazing.

    Onion and spice mixure
    Onion and spice mixure

    Add the apples and the vegetable stock to the broth.

    Apples and vegetable stock added to the onion and spice mixture
    Apples and vegetable stock added to the onion and spice mixture

    Bring the mixture to a boil and then reduce the heat and simmer.  Simmer until the apples are tender and soft.

    Apples cooked until tender and soft
    Apples cooked until tender and soft

    Add your cashew milk and either place the bisque into a blender and puree, or use a stick blender to puree the apples in the pot. I used a stick blender.  If you used a blender, return the pureed mixture to the pot. In either case, once you’ve blended the apples, bring the bisque back to a simmer and then serve.

    You can garnish with a shake of cinnamon if you like.

    Curried Apple Bisque
    Curried Apple Bisque

    Enjoy!

  • Kitchen Sink Soup, vegan, gluten-free, allergy-friendly

    Allergy-friendly Kitchen Sink Soup vegan gluten-free
    Kitchen Sink Soup

    One of the ways that food allergies have taken over my brain is that I’m always planning ahead — you have to. A lack of planning can mean not eating, which in my case leads to extreme crankiness or just a complete lack of functioning. I’m also completely incapable of deciding what to eat if I’m too hungry. So I usually know what’s for dinner — tonight and tomorrow night, maybe for the whole week, but certainly for any important dates or busy nights coming up.

    On the other hand, life with food allergies also makes you pretty flexible — again, by necessity. So when I had plans to make Winter is Coming Chicken and Kale, I had chicken, polenta, and kale on hand. Or, rather, I thought I did. Turns out, hey, winter is ending and the chicken I’d defrosted (properly — in the fridge, though for two days instead of one) was not good.I don’t really know if it was bad when I bought and froze it or what, but that left me with kale and polenta, which is a really sad meal.

    So I ended up making this soup. I’m just going to call it “kitchen sink soup” because that’s pretty much what went into it — everything but the kitchen sink. It turned out so well, though, that I thought I’d go ahead and share it. I wish that it were too late to post soup recipes, but it really isn’t. We’ve moved into cool and rainy, so soup is still all over my menu. If you live somewhere where it’s not soup weather? Yeah, don’t tell me about it, please. I love soup because it’s a one-pot, one-bowl meal that can be entirely balanced.

    The key to this soup, I think, is the *right* amount of really good hot sauce for you. Even if you “don’t like spicy things,” you need the hot sauce — you will just add less. GOOD hot sauce will give you tons of flavor and it doesn’t need to have a kick. I’ve written the version for the light end — taste and add more as you see fit.

    Vegan Gluten-free Soup
    Soup pre- and post- kale awesomeness

    Kitchen Sink Soup

    • 2 teaspoons oil of your choice
    • 1/2 an onion, chopped
    • pinch of salt
    • 8 oz mushrooms, de-stemmed and broken (I prefer crimini)
    • 3 carrots, chopped
    • 3 celery stalks, sliced thin
    • 15 oz of canned or cooked garbanzo beans
    • 1 teaspoon good hot sauce (or as much as you want)
    • 4 cups of vegetable broth
    • 1 potato, peeled and chopped small
    • about 4 cups of kale, de-stemmed and shredded

    Heat soup pot over medium heat. When the pot is hot, add the oil. When the oil is hot, add the onion and the pinch of salt. Cook, stirring regularly, until onion starts to brown.

    Add the broken mushrooms. Breaking mushrooms rather than chopping them gives you bigger mushroom chunks and reduces the shrinkage. Cook until the mushrooms have sweated and darkened.

    Add the carrots, celery, garbanzo, hot sauce, and vegetable broth. Stir well, and stir in the potato. Cover and bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer and cook for 20 – 30 minutes — when the carrots and potatoes are cooked, you’re good.

    Add the kale, stir, and let cook another 2-3 minutes until the kale is brighter green. Do NOT overcook the kale! Taste and adjust the hot sauce and salt if you need to.

    Enjoy the warm veggies and dream of summer.