By late summer my garden is producing more zucchini and green beans than any one household should be responsible for,...
Read moreDetailsRibollita means re-boiled, which is a fairly humble name for a soup that I think deserves better marketing, because what...
Read moreDetailsThis is the soup I make when I want something warm and completely undemanding: a handful of pantry staples, one...
Read moreDetailsCaldo verde gets all the attention, but sopa de nabiças is the soup my mother-in-law actually makes more often, because...
Read moreDetailsEvery culture with a grandmother in it seems to have a chicken soup that's really a cure for something other...
Read moreDetailsGazpacho gets all the attention outside of Spain, but salmorejo is the one I actually crave once the tomatoes at...
Read moreDetailsI already have my gazpacho alentejano on the site, the tomato and bread version my father's side would recognize immediately,...
Read moreDetailsWhen it gets properly hot here, the kind of humid July we are having right now, I stop turning on...
Read moreDetailsBy the time August rolls around, I am fully done turning on the stove for anything that takes longer than...
Read moreDetailsHarira is the soup that breaks the fast every night during Ramadan across Morocco, and once you make it at...
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