Recipe: Curried Split Pea Soup. 10 January 2008 2:49 pm
Posted by Tracy in : vegan, coconut, soup, sundance, vegetarian, recipes, cooking , 9 commentsWhen I adapted the Curried Spinach-Pea Soup from Moosewood Restaurant New Classics for the Sundance soup bar, the results were spectacular — and very expensive. Organic fresh spinach, frozen peas, and big cans of coconut milk are not cheap, so the soup turned out unprofitable, to put it mildly (we would have had to sell it for $8-$10 a quart to make money on it). If the soup hadn’t been such a hit, the story might have ended there, but I resolved to invent a cheaper version using frozen spinach and dried peas. The final recipe left out the greens altogether, but I never heard any complaints. In fact, based on the comments I got from Sundance staff and customers, this was one of my most frequently requested recipes. While I still recommend the soup that inspired it, especially in warmer weather, this recipe makes an equally intriguing blend of sweet and savory tastes, with a richer creaminess that makes it a great winter warmup. Enjoy! (more…)
Thursday “Things that make you go ‘hmmmm’ (or maybe ‘ew’)” 20 September 2007 11:24 pm
Posted by Tracy in : garden, breakfast, pictures, coconut, Marion Nestle, health, books , 1 comment so farI’m finally on the mend from the gnarly cold I’ve been complaining about all week, but I’m still not up to organizing my thoughts about miso soup into even the vaguest of guidelines, so that project will have to wait for tomorrow. Instead, more randomness, starting with the awesome, proceeding to the relatively inoffensive and ranging all the way out to really, really gross (so if at any point in this entry you think “okay, that’s too gross for me to read any further,” I implore you — bail out! Come back tomorrow to read about fermented soybean paste soup, which I am only describing in those terms because “kinda gross” is a funny theme for this evening. (more…)
Ask TracyFood: The Periodic Table of Dessert 17 April 2007 1:54 pm
Posted by Tracy in : advice, baking, coconut, dessert, eating, friends, people, cooking , 1 comment so farSo back during spring break (woo!) the fabulous Chiara emailed me to say:
Dear FoodTracy:
I do not understand this but I think you might like it, and then you can tell me what it means:
Recipe: Black Sweet Sticky Rice (for Debbie’s housewarming!) 2 March 2007 4:04 pm
Posted by Tracy in : vegan, coconut, dessert, recipes, friends, vegetarian, cooking , 2 commentsSo a few weeks ago I made black sweet sticky rice to go with my latest attempt at Oregon Snow sorbet, and my friend Debbie posted a comment mentioning that she was interested in learning about the pudding even if I hadn’t gotten the sorbet recipe perfected yet. This week, Debbie’s been moving into the condo she bought, which calls for a dessert-licious housewarming celebration, don’t you think? (more…)
Recipe: Vegan Mulligatawny 9 February 2007 10:06 am
Posted by Tracy in : coconut, America's Test Kitchen, vegan, soup, vegetarian, recipes, cooking , 1 comment so farThis soup is a vegan adaptation of a recipe I saw a few months ago on an episode of America’s Test Kitchen called “A Passage to India.” According to ATK’s official site, the episode originally aired two seasons ago (Season 5), which makes me wonder why my friendly local public television station is so slow to air stuff and whether I should give in and subscribe to the service that lets me watch ATK online already. But I digress.
I had never heard of Mulligatawny soup before watching “A Passage to India,” but according to Chris Kimball’s “here’s what can go wrong and what we’re trying to correct” introduction for the recipe, it’s a curried vegetable soup that made its way to the U.S. by way of the English, who of course had colonies in both North America and the Indian subcontinent. Wikipedia confirms that the name Mulligatawny comes from the Tamil for “pepper water,” so one of ATK’s goals for the recipe was to spice it up. I’m happy to say they succeeded, and (more…)
