Category Archives: Soups

Auntie Reggie’s Minestrone

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: April 8, 2013

Regina Turner Simmons and her weekday minestrone. Photo by sister Donna.

Tuesday or Wednesday is usually soup day here, as it was last week when Donna's sister, Regina, was here for Cakes 101, to teach me cake basics and all about the creams and curds that fill a cake and give it flavor. I wanted to be able to show what a proper cake could look like in the book we're currently working on, and as Regina bakes wedding and special-occasion cakes in the Hudson Valley, we brought her in for a working visit. We spend Thanksgiving with Donna's family in Germantown, NY, and last year Regina had two big pots of soup on the stove as the family converged on the house, one of which was so beloved by my ...

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The Humanizing Impact of Soup

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: March 25, 2013

Soup is the easiest of meals to prepare and one of the most important: This fancy-looking soup is simply celery root cooked with onion and milk, pureed, strained, and poured over some diced celery root for garnish. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Carri Thurman, baker and chef at Two Sisters Bakery in Homer, Alaska, asked to write about soup after what I can only say is a soup moment. It's also a glimpse of a busy bakery and kitchen (and two delicious recipes for tomato soup and a seafood soup). —M.R. The Magic of Soup by Carri Thurman I ...

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The Remarkable Ina Garten
(with a side of minestrone)

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: March 11, 2013

Ina Garten’s minestrone soup. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Tomorrow night at Playhouse Square, I'll be hosting Ina Garten, aka the Barefoot Contessa, the brain and heart behind what has become an adored brand. And such is the subject of our talk, business and brands, as well as food and cooking. She, like me, is something of an accident—that is, Garten never set out to do what she is doing. She knew by age thirty that she didn't want to be entombed as a policy wonk in D.C., so she put a low-bid offer on a prepared foods store in the Hamptons and got it. It had a felicitous name, which she kept, and with absolutely no training, she built it into a solid business, eventually branching out into catering. ...

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In Love with French Onion Soup

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: March 4, 2013

Onion soup, with croutons and melted cheese/Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman

Donna wanted to change the banner photo on my Facebook page and it got so many likes and comments that I knew it clearly struck a wintery warmth chord in dreary March. I've posted this before and here it is again from, Ruhlman’s Twenty, which looks at 20 key concepts that underlie all of cooking. This key concept is water. This onion soup requires nothing but onions and water for the soup part. Plan ahead when making the soup because the onions take a long time to cook down, from a few hours to as many as five if you keep the heat very low, though you need to pay attention only at the beginning and the end. ...

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Zucchini Soup

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: January 21, 2013

A bowl of hot zucchini soup. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Last summer when Donna and I traveled to Italy, our first meal happened to be at a lovely hotel and home of a great wine maker and his wife, who prepared us a feast that began with zucchini soup. It was zucchini season and so they featured it in three courses without apology, just an explanation. "It's zucchini season." The soup was so simple it inspired. Onion, water, and zucchini, seasoned with good oil and salt. This week, while I work in Key West, I'll be posting some of my wife Donna's favorite pix from last year. She likes this one for the way it shows off the power of back lighting. I like it because it brings our first meal ...

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Category Archives: Soups

Auntie Reggie’s Minestrone

The Humanizing Impact of Soup

The Remarkable Ina Garten
(with a side of minestrone)

In Love with French Onion Soup

Zucchini Soup

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