Lobster Bisque

Lobster Bisque

It’s been a long time since I looked up a lobster bisque recipe because I’ve always made it (and shrimp bisque) the same way.  So what I discovered is that I’ve (apparently) been making it wrong all these years. Every recipe I came across called 

Primitive Basics – How to Make Homemade Beef Marrow Stock

Primitive Basics – How to Make Homemade Beef Marrow Stock

There is really nothing so darkly primitive and luscious as roasted beef marrow bones. Add in some vegetables and cloves of garlic and the beauty and fragrance is simply divine. I’ve made homemade stock for many, many moons because I don’t like things to go 

Creamy Clam Chowder

Creamy Clam Chowder

This is a born-from-necessity soup that I made a few weeks back. Necessary because I needed to use up a couple of packs of frozen clams that I had purchased over the holidays, for an entirely different recipe that never got made. Our spring, so far, 

Navy Bean and Ham Soup

Navy Bean and Ham Soup

Leftover ham? My motto is: make soup! I’ll keep this post short and simple. These are guesstimated amounts since soup is a wing-it kind of thing for me and I don’t really measure. The key is really ratio – add more of what you like, 

Cream of Wild Mushroom Soup

Cream of Wild Mushroom Soup

My local grocery store occasionally carries a fantastic selection of fresh mushrooms and, as luck would have it, they had a bunch of them the other day. I picked up some shitake, oyster and enoki mushrooms, thinking I’d make some soup with the first two 

Tuscan Soup

Tuscan Soup

Cold outside? This is rustic, hearty and delicious. And as far as soups go, this is a very easy one to make. It’s called Zuppa Toscana or Tuscan Soup and it involves kale – a nutritional powerhouse. I learned this recipe many moons ago and, 

Udon Noodle Soup

Udon Noodle Soup

I love soup and making udon noodle soup at home is a great way to highlight a lot of beautiful veggies in one dish. I threw this one together the other night with what I had on hand and when I served it for dinner,