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Daughter-in-Law Soup

Tuesday, July 29. 2008

The Turkish, for some reason, eat more soup than any other preparation. It's ubiquitous in a way I find inexplicable in a country which is regularly quite hot. This recipe, a very traditional one, was adapted from the "Caves of Capridocia Hotel" photocopied cookbook, which has as many other soup recipes as all other types of recipes combined.

This soup has the terrific advantage of being pretty much the only good lentil soup I've seen that takes less than an hour including all prep. Presumably that's the reason for the name; with the short cooking time and limited ingredient list, it's perfect for new brides.

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Francophilic Soup

Sunday, January 6. 2008

Recently Cook's Illustrated Magazine ran their 2nd article on French Onion Soup in the last 3 years. The new recipe requires around five hours start to finish. While most of that is passive time, waiting for the onions to cook down, that's still vastly too long (in my opinion) for something which is supposed to be a first course.

Fortunately for you, loyal reader, I several years ago created a recipe for a French Onion Soup which is not only possible to prepare in under two hours of mostly passive time, it's also vegetarian! The one caveat is that you really need to have the right ingredients; substitutions don't work on this one.

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