Category: Vegetarian
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Caribbean-style Pumpkin Soup
I was asked to develop a good pumpkin soup recipe for Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, while I was filming cooking demonstrations for them to promote their MasterChef Enthusiast Classes which are geared toward the home cook. I wanted to develop something new that I had never heard of, and they wanted me to emphasize…
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Potato Onion Soup
Potato leek soup is really one of the most delicious yet simple things on earth. But we can’t always find leeks year round, and they’re typically pretty expensive. AND, they can be downright impossible to clean, with all the grit that accumulates between their layers. (And when you wash out that grit, you wash away…
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Curried Pumpkin Soup
Soup is my favorite food. Pumpkin is my favorite ingredient. So naturally, I love pumpkin soups. Here is a foundational pumpkin soup recipe that I make all year long, and people can’t get enough of it. I first had this soup on a cruise ship in 1998, which is really the first time my pallate…
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Tom Kha Gai (Thai coconut lemongrass soup)
This is my favorite soup. From the first moment I tasted this soup in Thailand, I was dumbfounded by the flavors. It was so rich, so spicy, so tangy. Every time I eat it, I’m reminded of the time I was stranded in a cave in Thailand with my friend Ricky and two other backpackers…
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Indian Stuffed Yeast Breads
I ran across some recipe for yeast bread stuffed with curried veggies about a decade ago and over the years the recipe has morphed into my own. My friends LOVE these, and it’s a great introduction to Indian food for those who are nervous about it. These are individual rounds of crusty yeast bread stuffed…
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Overnight Cinnamon Rolls
Who on Earth can resist a warm, yeasty, sticky, sweet cinnamon roll fresh from the oven? ESPECIALLY if there’s cream cheese frosting to smear on top? The problem is that it takes a solid 3 hours to get cinnamon rolls finished once they are started, and who wants to get up THAT early? The solution,…
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Easy Overnight Old-World Dutch Oven Bread
Homemade bread is one of the most delicious and satisfying things you can make in your kitchen. I’ve built a wood-fired oven in my backyard in pursuit of that supreme flavor and texture you get from high temperature baking, but you can get near-perfect results in your normal oven if you have a cast iron…
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1 Hour Buttermilk English Muffins
I used to be grossed out by packaged English muffins. In fact, all packaged breads give me the creeps. I just can’t buy them. If they’re not sitting in the open air on the shelf of a bakery, and I’m confident they came out of the oven that day, I can’t bring myself to buy…
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Uncle Bill’s Aunt Hazel’s Hot Rolls
This is actually the name my family associates with this recipe. If hot rolls are to be served at a family get-together, everyone knows that the rolls will be Uncle Bill’s Aunt Hazel’s Hot Rolls. Aunt Hazel was an extraordinary woman, one of those ladies who could do anything. Make breakfast on the wood-fired stove,…