"A Taste Of Heart & Home"
There is a bounty of seasonal ingredients available at the market these days. Rhubarb is one of my favourite reasons to get busy baking. I scour the local farmer’s markets and neighbouring yards for the characteristic red stalks. It is a versatile vegetable (yes, Rhubarb is a vegetable), although it acts like a fruit. You can use it in so many ways: in pies, custards, compotes, chutneys, crumble and crisps and in muffins or quick loaves, as a sauce with pork or ham and many other ways.
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There are Secrets of Chicken Soup. I read a lovely article from Chef Laura Calder about the secrets of making Chicken Soup. Her article confirms everything I stress in my Soup and Stocks Class. The “tweaking’ part of the soup making process is important and essential – and fun!
One of my students told me she was a bit shy to try making her own chicken soup after a failed attempt tasted like the chicken had run through the pot. She is now confirmed and confident soup maker. You will be as well after you read Laura’s Mom’s recipe for chicken soup.
Making soup is one of my life’s greatest pleasures. I make soup when I am happy, or stressed, or when there is a chill in the air, and for no reason at all. My own Mom’s soups were famous in the neighbourhood full of wholesome, hearty ingredients from my father’s gardens to feed a gaggle of little girls and their friends.
I also love soup classes – it is one of my favourite classes to teach. Most of the comments that I have received have been from this class. Students went home with litres of soup, a booklet of recipes and a whole new perspective on taking their soup making to a whole new level.
In the meantime, try this fantastic easy recipe for chicken soup. You might learn a secret or two, too!
Five Minute Soup – really! | urbnspice.com
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Other Urbnspice Soups You Will Enjoy:
Urb’n’Spice’s Five Minute Soup
Roasted Butternut Squash and Roasted Pear Soup – an elegant soup fit to serve company
Chilly Day Soup – A Market Inspired Vegetable Soup
Home Welcoming Hearty Black Bean Soup
The Ultimate French Canadian Yellow Split Pea Soup with Smoked Sea Salt
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Denise Paré-Watson
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