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Turkey Stock: Oven Method
Illustration by Pierre Lamielle At a reader's request I'm reposting on how to make perfect stock, by slow cooking it in the oven. It's a very low-maintenance, easy way to make stock—just stick it in a...
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French Onion Soup
Onion soup, with croutons and melted cheese/Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman Funny. The recipes people are pulled toward, desire, crave, are the most basic. Like Onion soup. Part of why I love...
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Zucchini Soup
A bowl of hot zucchini soup. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Last summer when Donna and I traveled to Italy, our first meal happened to be at a lovely hotel and home of a great wine maker and his wife,...
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In Love with French Onion Soup
Onion soup, with croutons and melted cheese/Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman Donna wanted to change the banner photo on my Facebook page and it got so many likes and comments that I knew it clearly...
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The Remarkable Ina Garten (with a side of minestrone)
Ina Garten’s minestrone soup. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Tomorrow night at Playhouse Square, I'll be hosting Ina Garten, aka the Barefoot Contessa, the brain and heart behind what has become an...
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The Humanizing Impact of Soup
Soup is the easiest of meals to prepare and one of the most important: This fancy-looking soup is simply celery root cooked with onion and milk, pureed, strained, and poured over some diced celery root...
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Auntie Reggie’s Minestrone
Regina Turner Simmons and her weekday minestrone. Photo by sister Donna. Tuesday or Wednesday is usually soup day here, as it was last week when Donna's sister, Regina, was here for Cakes 101, to teach...
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Me and Ina Garten in Pittsburgh
Ina Garten’s minestrone soup. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Ina Garten and I had such a good time on stage at Playhouse Square in Cleveland last year, she's asked me to join her tomorrow for a similar...
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Holiday Classic: Butternut Squash Soup
"Phenomenal" Butternut Squash and Leek Soup. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman. Just back from great Chefs Collaborative event in Charleston, SC, and now must head to Vegas, my favorite city on earth...
View ArticlePaleo Carrot and Cardamom Soup
I’m on the road today, flying home at long last after my West Coast EGG book tour, so I’ve asked my friend Michelle of Nom Nom Paleo for a guest post and recipe from her dynamic new book while I...
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When I arrived at Cleveland Airport this morning, I found a tweet from @nancypantscan (who has the coolest Twitter icon—I can never stop staring and marveling at it!), who said this soup, previously...
View ArticleMeat Broths and Stock
My mom traveled to the crazy garment district in New York for her work when I was a copyboy at the New York Times, five blocks north. I remember once she took me to lunch and ordered a Bull Shot. When...
View ArticleKid-Inspired Popup!
I’ve long said the way to help change the way America eats is to teach kids to cook. This is a story from my colleague Emilia in which kids not only cook, but rather take it to a new level, using...
View ArticleFrench Onion Soup!
Without question, French onion is my favorite all-around soup. It’s a satisfying, nourishing meal. Not only does it have all the components of a meal—a nutritious broth, a vegetable, cheese, bread, and...
View ArticleSweet Bell Pepper Soup
This is a fabulous all-purpose soup method, here used with sweet bell peppers. But you can use it for just about any vegetable—asparagus, mushroom, pea, carrot. I learned it from Thomas Keller and...
View ArticleWinter Vegetable Garbure
Continuing a series of soup posts as the weather cools (here in the Northeast at least), I’m offering this rich vegetable garbure. Garbure hails from my favorite food region, Gascony, in the...
View ArticleHoliday Classic: Butternut Squash Soup
I’m reposting this soup because it’s such a fabulous fall soup, and the weather in the northeast has finally turned into appropriate soup weather. There’s no better fall vegetable soup than this one...
View ArticleI Carry Your Heart:Chicken Soup For a Friend
I knew I would be spending this afternoon with a dear friend, Laura, the girl I sat next to as we graduated from Duke in 1985. She’s in considerable anguish having lost her love to cancer, her soul,...
View ArticleSoup is On
Warm up this winter by making a batch of this potato soup, via The Pioneer Woman.
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