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Chicken Noodle Soup with Mushrooms, Ginger and Chinese 5 Spice

January 6, 2013 By Laura 10 Comments

browning chicken thighs for soup

It got worse before it got better, folks. At this point it honestly feels like all of December went by in a blur of holiday baking and upper respiratory infections. The baking you already know about. The flu came right after Thanksgiving followed by 2 different bouts of strep throat followed by the nastiest of… 

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Filed Under: cabbage, chicken, cookbooks, easily made vegetarian, fall spices, mushrooms, reviews, rice noodles, soup Tagged With: asian, cabbage, chicken, chicken thighs, chinese 5 spice, cookbooks, crimini, mushrooms, rice noodles, soup, stew

Pork Posole with Roasted Pork Tenderloin & Lila Beans

November 4, 2012 By Laura 5 Comments

Alex has been going through a picky phase (I’ll wait for the gasps to die down). Lately leftovers drive her nuts (thanks, Dad, I blame you for that one!) and she is incredibly picky about various textures. My method for dealing with this has been to ignore, ignore, ignore. I make what I want–and she… 

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Filed Under: beans, hominy, Mexican dishes, pork, soup, stews Tagged With: beans, ground chile pepper, hominy, mexican, neck bones, pork, posole, pozole, soup, stew, tenderloin

Ohio-in-July Vegetable Soup, Indian Style

July 24, 2012 By Laura 3 Comments

  I try not to over-indulge in potatoes and sweet corn. They are both super starchy and they share a distinction–in my family at any rate–as rarely being the only starch on the plate (for example, if we have potatoes in a curry we often then want it on rice). And the sweetness of the… 

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Filed Under: corn, curry, Indian recipes, lentils, potatoes, soup, split peas, tomatoes, vegetarian, zucchini Tagged With: corn, Indian, lentils, potatoes, soup, split peas, sweet corn, tomatoes, vegetarian

Lentil and Bulghur Soup with Minted Garlic Olive Oil Butter and Camp Memories

May 17, 2012 By Laura 5 Comments

lentil soup pantry ingredients

Camp has been a big topic of discussion in my house lately.  First, it is the time of year when we choose a week-long day camp for the girls. Second, Alex just read a chapter book in which the protagonist twins spend 5 weeks at a summer camp, so she is interested in all things… 

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Filed Under: easily made vegetarian, lentils, Middle Eastern dishes, misc, pantry cooking, soup, tomatoes, whole grains Tagged With: black beluga lentils, bulghur, garlic, lentils, Middle Eastern, mint, soup

Potaje de Vigilia (Spanish Fasting Soup with Beans, Thickened with Bread)

January 15, 2012 By Laura 4 Comments

Potaje de Vigilia (Spanish Fasting Soup)

This time of year always brings with it a dilemma: you want healthy and light after weeks of feasting but at the same time for many of us it is cold outside and we want warming and hearty.  Year after year I seem to turn to the same solution: bean soup.

Filed Under: beans, chickpeas, easily made vegetarian, eggs, greens, New Year's resolutions, potatoes, Spanish cuisine, spinach, stews Tagged With: beans, bread, chickpeas, eggs, fried bread, garlic, Lenten recipes, olive oil, soup, Spanish, spinach, stew, vegetarian

Spanish Lentil Soup with Sausages and Apples

November 9, 2011 By Laura 7 Comments

Spanish Lentil Soup with Sausages and Apples--even better the second day!

I was all excited to write this post, marking my return to submitting posts to that all-time favorite blog event of mine, My Legume Love Affair.  Then the news about Penn State hit.  

Filed Under: apples, chorizo, fruit, lentils, sausage, Spanish cuisine, stews, tomatoes Tagged With: apples, beans, legumes, lentils, morcilla, sausage, sherry, soup, Spanish, stew

Riojan Potatoes with Chorizo and Chile

February 18, 2011 By Laura 9 Comments

I confess we had this as a meal–but it might be better as tapas. Not because it is not good enough to eat a big bowlful of it–oh it is–but because to me this is not a particularly healthy meal. The carbs completely outweigh the fiber and protein–and the protein is unhealthy flavoring protein (chorizo)… 

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Filed Under: chorizo, potato dishes, sausage, soup, Spanish cuisine Tagged With: chorizo, peppers, potatoes, riojan, sausage, soup, Spanish, stew, tapas

Coconut Lentil Soup with Potatoes and Peas

February 10, 2011 By Laura 15 Comments

The Spiced Life family just got back from a whirlwind trip to Disney World! John got invited to talk at a conference there and we said yes, please! 3 days nonstop parks with rides, princesses, food, princesses, fairies, princesses… So please forgive any typos or just plain incomprehensible sentences. My brain feels like Swiss cheese;… 

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Filed Under: coconut milk, easily made vegetarian, lentils, peas, potatoes, soup, split peas, vegetarian Tagged With: coconut milk, curry, lentils, peas, potatoes, soup, split peas, stew, vegetarian

Sour Chickpea Soup

July 25, 2010 By Laura 5 Comments

Sour Chickpea Soups

Sour Chickpea Soup is a chicken soup flavored with cumin and caraway seeds that is delicious any time of year. I updated these pictures in Summer 2020. The soup in the more recent photos were served over Basmati rice (it was all I had) and we used more rice, leading to a bulkier looking soup. … 

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Filed Under: chicken, chickpeas, Instant Pot, soup, stews, tomatoes, wine, yogurt Tagged With: chickpeas, garbanzo beans, legumes, soup, stew, white wine, wine, yogurt

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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