Mexican Chicken Soup with Lime (Sopa de Lima)

Chicken, corn tortillas, avocados, lime. These are ingredients that simply love each other. Pretty much anything you make with them is bound to be good. The following soup is a relatively easy version of “Sopa de Lima” or “Lime Soup”, a specialty of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. It’s a chicken soup flavored with fiery [...]

Carrot Ginger Soup

Years ago I went on a carrot kick. Someone had given me a champion juicer and I set off to consume my weight in carrot juice over the next month. Remember when your biology teacher told you that your skin would turn orange if you ate a lot of carrots? She was right! When I [...]

Chicken Noodle Soup

Is there anything more comforting than homemade chicken noodle soup? Perfect for cold weather, and especially good if you are fighting off a cold or flu. There are probably as many ways of making chicken noodle soup as there are moms who make it. The key is the stock, homemade from bones. The iron rich [...]

Chestnut and Fennel Soup

Years ago an aikido friend of mine and I travelled to Shikoku, a Southern island of Japan. On a brisk walk one day we discovered the path covered with chestnuts. We gathered a bunch and took them back to where we were staying. Not knowing exactly how to cook them, but having seen plenty of [...]

Turkey Soup with Lemon and Barley

Hi everyone, are you ready for your Thanksgiving feast? Here are some ideas if you are still doing menu planning. I’m signing off for the next couple of days to spend time with my family. In the meantime, here’s a lovely soup we whipped up this week. Enjoy, and Happy Thanksgiving! ~Elise Like turkey soup but [...]

Avgolemono Soup

Please welcome Hank Shaw as he shares his quick and easy version of the Greek classic avgolemono soup, a chicken soup with lemon and egg. ~Elise The mixture of eggs, lemon and hot broth is a classic combination in Greek cooking. And if there is a classic dish that highlights this combination, it is the [...]

Creamy Asparagus Soup

Here’s another recipe from the archives while I’m on vacation. Enjoy! ~Elise Spring here means strawberries and rhubarb, sweet peas and asparagus, and dreams of the summer bounty to come. Asparagus are everywhere, big, fat, and fresh. And yes, although we can get them all year round, I’m especially happy to eat them in Spring. [...]

Watercress Soup

One of my earliest memories as a kid was my father taking the family out on excursions to Antelope Valley, about an hour and a half outside of Los Angeles where we lived. We used to go out there to pick pears, look at the jack rabbits, and just wander around the rugged terrain. There [...]