Tag: Recipes

I’m Not Dead Yet: Chicken Soup for the Body

I’m not dead yet - although this blog has been allowed to languish at the doorstep of death for a couple of months, to my shame. Between the vortex of the holiday season and the single worst upper respiratory virus I’ve EVER had, I can sympathize - I’ve felt like I was going to die ...

The Mystery of the Green Soup: Caldo Verde

One of my favorite soups for both warm weather and cold is caldo verde - Portuguese for, appropriately enough, "green soup", a name that comes from copious amounts of thinly sliced leafy kale, giving it a deep green color in the bowl. It has a short, inexpensive ingredient list - consisting of olive oil, garlic, kale, potato, ...