{"id":2904,"date":"2018-12-13T20:51:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T02:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T02:52:04","slug":"soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Soup!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few days ago, I bought a stalk** of celery with the intent to use it in an as yet untried recipe. Then I forgot which recipe I had intended to make, which left me with a stalk of celery hanging fire in the vegetable bin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it’s Winter, according to temperature if not the calendar, and that means comforting, warming food like soup. I looked for a recipe that didn’t call for much if any butter or cream because I think that type of creaminess overwhelms the taste of delicate vegetables like celery, and found this one on the Erren’s Kitchen website<\/a> that uses white potatoes as the thickening agent. Saut\u00e9d onion and garlic, then added celery, potatoes, stock, and a teaspoon and a half of Penzey’s dried Bouquet Garni.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time to get cooking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The celery and potatoes cooked quickly\u2014I checked them at the 15-minute mark, and found they were fork-tender. So I took the pot off the heat, and zapped the soup with the immersion blender. Result, two quarts of fresh-tasting soup with a thick, creamy consistency. If I wanted to add some dairy smoothness, I would’ve stirred in a dollop of plain Greek yogurt. But today,\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Freshly blended<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had a bowl for lunch with a slice of warm, buttered Trader Joe’s asiago-peppercorn sourdough. A tasty, relatively light but filling, winter meal. Definitely a keeper recipe to add to the soup & stew rotation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lunch!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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(**as an aside, I’ve always called a stalk of celery a “bunch.” However, apparently a whole bunch is a stalk<\/a>, while what I always called a stalk is a rib.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, I bought a stalk** of celery with the intent to use it in an as yet untried recipe. Then I forgot which recipe I had intended to make, which left me with a stalk of celery hanging fire in the vegetable bin. Well, it’s Winter, according to temperature if not the Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,57],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-seasons","tag-soup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}