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Seafood Albondigas Soup
Albondigas (meatball) Soup is a popular Mexican dish, but it’s quite a bit different when you make it with shrimp and bits of fish, as in this recipe from The Border Cookbook. It’s a bit lighter, and the albondigas are deliciously tender. Until the meatballs actually landed in the broth, I was convinced they were […]
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Ecuadorian Chicken Corn Chowder
This recipe comes from Fitness Food. A hearty – but healthy! – chowder made with chicken, corn, and veggies. Lisa says: What’s with all the poaching this week? And isn’t poaching illegal? Chris says: Different kind of poaching. But I know what you mean — the enchiladas, the tuna, now this. Not sure. Maybe it’s […]
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Latin Tomato and Mushroom Soup
Tonight I made a soup adapted from The Mushroom Lover’s Mushroom Cookbook: a chicken broth-based soup with plenty of veggies, chicken, and sauteed mushrooms. The original recipe suggests huitlacoche (also known as ‘corn smut’), but I couldn’t find any here in Seattle. Chris says: This is really good — and a nice change of pace […]
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Smoky Chicken-Tomato Soup
This is another catch-up post — we had this spicy (maybe a little too spicy for Lisa) soup last week, but I was too busy to put it up. It comes from Healthy Latin Cooking. Lisa says: Spicy! Chris says: Yeah, it’s perfect… just the way I like it. Lisa says: You always forget that […]
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Javanese Chicken Soup
I’ve been waiting for a co-worker (this means you, Walt) to set me up with some delicious Indonesian recipes but got impatient, so we adapted the following from a recipe in the old standby, Great Bowls of Fire. I’m not sure how close it is to traditional recipes, but we both really enjoyed this soup […]