Covid 19 fears kept our sandwich makers at home today, so I stepped in and made some chicken salad sandwich filling as well as my regular soup. The above was with green, red, and orange bell peppers, Dijon mustard, tarragon, white pepper, and salt.
Below, I used curry powder, turmeric, Greek yogurt, lemon/ginger juice, jalapeno hot sauce, green, red, and orange bell peppers, black pepper, and salt.
Mirepoix: yellow and red onion, celery, orange bell pepper, rainbow carrot, fennel. Ham, roasted portobello shroom, crimini shroom, sour cream, worcestershire sauce, dill, tarragon, flour, ghee, garlic, parsley.
Was shooting for ham stroganoff, but had to abort when at the last moment I noticed that the yogurt I was going to add was vanilla yogurt. Maybe another day I would have gone with it, but it just sounded wrong. But it all turned out good in the end.
Mirepoix: yellow onion, celery, carrot, chive. Clams with juice, shrimp with juice, potato, camembert cheese, orange and green bell pepper, cauliflower, egg yolks, ghee, butter, fish sauce, milk, whipping cream, fresh basil, tarragon, dill, cinnamon, garlic.
So now I know that “liaison” is the official word that means adding starch or egg yolks to thicken soup. So today I liaised with yolks–creamy thickness.
Mirepoix: yellow onion, parsley, carrot, celery, green pepper. Bacon, rice, zucchini, crimini shroom, fresh mint, tarragon, sambal oelek, vegetable base, lemon ginger burst juice, black pepper.
Ouu boy that mint really brightened up this concoction, and the Indonesian pepper sauce added some softly-refined heat.
Mirepoix: yellow onion, celery, parsnip (let’s call that the “snipoix”). Ham, apple, potato, cauliflower, apple sauce, cream cheese, flour, dill, tarragon, garlic, black pepper.
A zippy fruit and dairy treat, soup style.
“Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.” Friedrich Nietzsche
Mirepoix: red yellow and white onion, carrot, yellow bell pepper. Ham, potato, chanterelle shroom, crimini shroom, one morel shroom, pre-made garlic mashed potato, butter, worcestershire sauce, milk, tarragon, garlic.
I just love tarragon. Hmm, maybe I’ll put it on my pizza tonight.
Mirepoix: yellow onion, celery, rainbow carrot. Chicken thigh, portabella mushroom, potato gnocchi, mashed potato mix, milk, tomato paste, tarragon, garlic, parsley, fresh chive.
I found a fun Swedish fish recipe that was chowdery but also had tomato paste in it too. Sounded fun, so I tried it with chicken. I pureed the mirepoix for a little thickness.
“Bättre en fågel i handen än tio i skogen.” “Better a bird in the hand than 10 in the forest”. Swedish proverb
Sauteed portabella, chanterelle, and crimini mushrooms, milk, chicken thigh, potato, dill, tarragon, ghee, butter.
“When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go, and you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, go ask Alice.” Grace Slick
Onions, tenderloin, sirloin, potato, potato gratin mix, dijon mustard, tarragon, garlic, risotto rice with porcini.
Hooray for beef. “Fetchez la vache”.
Mirepoix: yellow onion, celery, red and green bell pepper. Chicken breast, hominy, white mushroom, tarragon, red wine vinegar, sambal oelek, garlic.
All bow to tarragon. What a great flavor, matches great with chicken.
“When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what’s the big deal? Relax.” Jacques Pepin
Mirepoix: shallot, yellow onion, celery, carrot, red bell pepper. Chicken thighs, feta cheese, roasted peppers, eggplant, green olives, fish sauce, tarragon, parsley flakes.
The feta really brought this off.
“Chicken soup – what a blessing…for the mind to dwell a world away from pain.” Sophocles, Oedipus Rex. Sort of.
Onion, lettuce, uncured ham, fish sauce, black rice, calrose rice, balsamic vinegar, tarragon, garlic, black pepper.
The thought of lettuce in a soup used to revolt me. But ahh, those French, they made it a classic soup. So I had to try it. 50 million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.
Pureed the lettuce with the onion.
Standard mirepoix. Bacon, okra, fennel, potato, pobalano pepper, half and half, fish sauce, parsley, minced garlic, garlic scape, cream cheese, tarragon, glace de poulet, love.
The slick sliminess of okra. Such a joy, such a love.
Had never heard of garlic scape before, but holy smokes this is a killer ingredient. Tanta alegria e tanto amor. Que bom.
“It is impossible to love and to be wise”. Francis Bacon
Made 6/18/19
Mirepoix: yellow onion, leek, fennel, carrot, celery, red bell pepper. Tomato, green beans, leek tops, yellow bell pepper, portobello mushroom, balsamic vinegar, worcestershire sauce, cayenne pepper, tarragon, oregano, basil.
A Pippin would complain: “needs rashers of bacon”. Sorry, it wasn’t available that day, my woolly-footed rascal.
Made 4/24/29
Mirepoix: yellow onion, parsnip, celery, carrot. Crimini mushroom, oyster mushroom, enotaki mushroom, red bell pepper, poblano pepper, roasted cauliflower, milk, corn starch, butter, tarragon, lime juice.
“Tis a far, far better soup we make…”
Pureed a bunch of the crimini with the mirepoix (once it was done) for extra thickness.
Made 4/3/19
Mirepoix: yellow onion, yellow and green bell pepper, carrot. Smoked salmon, potato, cauliflower, fromage blanc, milk, whipping cream, potato starch, bacon mashed potato mix, fresh dill, tarragon, garlic.
Made 3/6/19
Mirepoix: onion, parsnip. Tenderloin, ribeye, filet mignon, potato, shiitake mushroom, mushroom steak gravy, tomato paste, beef stock, flour, tarragon, garlic.
Very beefy.
Made 2/20/19
Mirepoix: yellow onion, red bell pepper, carrot. Corn, potato, fish sauce, milk, flour, garlic, fresh tarragon.
Pretty simple, but man tarragon goes great in a chowder.
Made 9/26/18
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