Week of October 22: Soup is Good Food

Since Ray has been a little delinquent in the blogging, I'm going to spend a little time updating the blog. One of the joys of being married has been working on home projects such as the shed that everyone is tired of hearing about. In order to get away from the shed project, I undertook a project of my own. Soup making.

I abandoned Ray out in the yard and decided to make a few batches of soup for us with enough to share with Ray's parents. One of the soups that we made was a Portuguese Kale Soup (Caldo Verde) - we were trying to recreate a soup that we had tried at a little restaurant in SF called Grubstake(Grubstake is a little diner in our old neighborhood. It serves traditional diner food but it also has a little section of Portuguese food that I highly recommend. And as an added bonus, it is open until 4am - so if you ever need a late night bite to eat in SF - this is the place to go.)


The recipe we made was out of one of my favorite cookbooks - The Gourmet Cookbook

(I've had a lot of good luck with the recipes from this cookbook!)

The other soup we made was a Lentil/Chickpea Soup
also found in the Gourmet cookbook - which was very nice and hearty!

The nice thing about making soups on the weekend was that we had several meals both for ourselves and for Ray's parents!