Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Sautéed Grapes with Thyme and Manchego on Grilled Bread for Food 'n Flix February Pick: Pan's Labyrinth

It's Food 'n Flix time again and as usual I am ducking in at the last minute before the deadline. February's film is the 2006 fantasy film Pan's Labyrinth, hosted by Katharina at Pretty Cake Machine (You can see her announcement post here.)


I saw and really enjoyed this movie when it came out. It's a dark fantasy, gorgeously filmed by the amazing Guillermo del Toro with story fairy tale influences. The film is set in post-Civil War Spain in 1944 where a young girl (Ofelia) accompanies her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a captain in the military. Ofelia lives in a bit of a fantasy world, always reading fairy tales and she has a vivid imagination. When she comes across a large stick insect she believes it is a fairy and follows it into the labyrinth by her new home. There she meets a faun who tells her she is the reincarnation of a princess and assigns her three tasks to complete to become immortal. I don't want to give a lot of details beyond that because if you have not seen this film you should--it's beautiful, dark and creepy and well worth seeking out. 


This time I watched the movie for the food and there was actually a fair amount of food to be found. Some that I wrote down included; rabbits for a stew, burnt coffee, mentions of beef, chicken and pigs and beans and vegetables. There was milk with honey, rations of flour, salt, olive oil, olives and bacon, a fig tree, platters of vegetables and potatoes, tea made from mandrake root, bread and milk, and finally a large and sumptuous banquet table filled with platters of food including gorgeous dark red fruits like grapes, currants, and pomegranates.


It was from this banquet at the underground lair of the (very creepy) Pale Man that I took my inspiration. Ofelia is tasked with removing a dagger there and is warned not to eat any food she encounters, but she cannot resist eating two large grapes which wakes up the Pale Man--definitely not a good thing! 

I wanted to make a tapas dish with grapes and pair it with my favorite Spanish cheese which happens to be Manchego. A few years ago I made Baked Wine and Spice Grapes for another Food 'n Flix film; The Good Year and I liked how baking the grapes brought out their sweetness and flavor. This time I decided to sauté my grapes in olive oil and thyme to serve with the Manchego on slices of grilled baguette. Simple and delicious!

 
Sautéed Grapes with Thyme and Manchego on Grilled Bread 
By Deb, Kahakai Kitchen
(Serves 4 as Appetizer)
 
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 cups sweet red seedless grapes, halved
1 Tbsp fresh thyme leaves
tiny pinch sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
French baguette, thinly sliced, brushed with olive oil & grilled until lightly browned
wedge of Manchego cheese, thinly sliced

Heat olive oil in a medium pan, over medium heat. Add grapes and thyme and sauté for 4-5 minutes, stirring until grapes are heated through, softened slightly and are releasing their juices. (You want them slightly soft but not mushy.) Add a tiny pinch of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Transfer grapes to a serving dish, along with the liquid in the pan.

Serve grapes warm, along with thinly sliced manchego cheese and grilled baguette slices. Make sure to drizzle a bit of the extra olive oil and grape juice liquids on top . Enjoy!

  
Notes/Results: Such a simple appetizer but so delicious! The combination of the sweet grapes, thyme and the caramel and nutty flavors of the Manchego all work so well together. Using just a tiny pinch of salt enhances the taste of the grapes and the black pepper gives them that little something extra. Since the grapes are warm, they soften the cheese a bit, making them a pleasure to eat--especially when all of the liquids released by the grapes, along with the olive oil, gets drizzled on top. If you can't get manchego, this would work with most any cheese you would pair with grapes--I'd try it with a Gruyere or maybe a tangy goat cheese or even a Spanish blue cheese like Cabrales. A definite new favorite for me and likely to end up at the next party I host or go to--I will happily make them again.

 
I'm linking this post up to the Weekend Cooking event at Beth Fish Reads, a weekly event that is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share. For more information, see the welcome post

 
The deadline for this round of Food 'n Flix is today, Tuesday, February 28th and Katharina will be rounding up all the dishes on her blog. If you missed this round and like food, films and foodie films, join us for March when the film pick is The Martian, hosted by Wendy at A Day in the Life of the Farm. 

 

Sunday, February 26, 2017

(Vegan) Lasagna Soup with Herbed Macadamia Ricotta for Souper (Soup, Salad & Sammie) Sundays

Coming across But My Family Would Never Eat Vegan! by Kristy Turner at the library and seeing the recipe for Lasagna Soup, I knew I wanted to try it. I own Turner's first book, But I Could Never Go Vegan! and wanted to try out this book before purchasing. Plus, my friend Stephanie linked up a lasagna soup to Souper Sundays a few weeks ago and I have been thinking about it ever since.


Turner's version uses chickpeas in place of any vegan meat substitutes and has a topping of Herbed Macadamia Ricotta. I made a couple of tiny changes to the recipe--upping the garlic and the tomatoes--mainly because the only no-salt crushed tomatoes I could find was in a 28-ounce can and I didn't want to bother with freezing/storing the leftovers. I upped the dried spices a bit too. My changes are noted in red below.


Lasagna Soup with Herbed Macadamia Ricotta
Slightly Adapted from But My Family Would Never Eat Vegan by Kristy Turner
(Serves 6)

1 tsp olive oil
1 yellow onion, diced
3 garlic cloves, minced (I used 5 cloves)
1 1/2 cups cooked, or 1 (15 oz) can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
8 oz cremini mushrooms, sliced
1 medium zucchini, sliced
1 medium yellow squash, sliced
1 Tbsp dried basil
2 tsp dried oregano (I used 1 Tbsp)
1 tsp dried parsley (I used 2 tsps)
pinch of cayenne (or crushed red pepper)
1 (15-oz) can no-salt added tomato sauce
1 (15 oz) can no-salt added crushed tomatoes (I used 1 28-oz can)
1 quart low-sodium vegetable broth
12-oz lasagna noodles, broken in half
3 Tbsp nutritional yeast, optional
1 Tbsp lemon juice
salt and black pepper to taste
3 cups loosely packed chopped fresh spinach
1 cup loosely packed chopped fresh basil
Herbed Macadamia Ricotta (recipe below)
Fresh basil to garnish

Bring a large pot of water to a boil. 

In another large soup pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat and add onion and garlic and saute until the onion turns translucent. Add the chickpeas, mushrooms, squash, and dried herbs and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally until vegetables start to become tender. Add the tomato sauce, crushed tomatoes and broth and bring soup to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for about 10 minutes, until vegetables are mostly tender.

Meanwhile, cook the lasagna noodles according to package directions--until al dente. Drain the pasta and add them to the soup. Stir in the nutritional yeast and lemon juice. Taste and add salt and black pepper to taste. Add the chopped spinach and basil and remove soup from heat.

Serve immediately topped with a scoop of the Herbed Macadamia Ricotta.

Leftover soup will keep in a container in the fridge for 3 to 4 days. Turner notes not to let the soup simmer for too long after adding the noodles or while reheating as they will absorb more liquid and break apart. Add more liquid if needed when reheating. 

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Herbed Macadamia Ricotta
From But My Family Would Never Eat Vegan by Kristy Turner
(Makes about 1 Cup)

1 cup raw macadamia (or cashew or almonds), soaked in water for at least 1 hour, drained with water reserved
3 Tbsp + extra reserved soaking water
2 Tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp dried basil
1 tsp dried oregano
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp white miso

Combine the macadamia nuts, 4 teaspoons of the reserved soaking liquid, lemon juice, herbs, salt and miso in the bowl of a food processor. Process mixture until smooth, pausing to scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. If the cheese is not moving smoothly, add more soaking water a teaspoon at a time until it moves smoothly. Note: ricotta is usually a bit grainy so you don't have to get the mixture completely smooth. 

Leftover ricotta can be kept tightly covered in the fridge for up to a week.  


Notes/Results: This soup has good flavor and hit the spot. The herbed macadamia ricotta is just the right touch and even with the addition of the chickpeas--a bit unusual for lasagna, it has all of the taste of the dish. Very creamy and satisfying--even without the meat. The lasagna noodles are a little unwieldy to eat with their size but they cut pretty easily with the spoon. For the ricotta, I soaked my macadamias over night but had a hard time in getting them very smooth in the food processor--adding quite a bit of extra soaking water. Then I thought about it and decided that ricotta usually isn't completely smooth and decided not to worry about it. It ended up melting into the soup as I ate it and was delicious. Next time, I may make it in my high-speed blender instead just to see what it does to the texture. All-in-all it was a relatively quick and easy soup to make and tasted great--I think it would satisfy vegans and meat-eaters alike. I would happily make it again.  

   
We have some good friends with delicious dishes waiting in the Souper Sundays kitchen from last week--let's have a look!


Shaheen of Allotment2Kitchen made Simple Roasted Beetroot and Carrot Salad and said, "As the beetroot and carrots roasted together, the beetroot infused some of its colour into the carrots almost making it look like almost like rainbow carrots.  the red onions became soft and silky and the small potatoes, golden and crisp."



Melynda of Our Sunday Cafe shared Mediterranean Cottage Cheese Salad with Za'atar and said, "Looking for ways to eat more vegetables, led me to this salad. It is delicious and can be made at a moments notice from ingredients on hand. Paired with some whole grain bread and a piece of fresh fruit, it will also make a wonderful lunch or light supper."



Terri of Our Good Life is here this week and brought Indian Style Carrot and Tomato Soup. She said, "Recently I learned I needed to reduce the acidity of my stomach, and my doctor recommended that I use tomato powder instead of fresh tomatoes.  Here is a version of tomato soup using tomato powder. I love fresh tomatoes and while this soup was good, it would be best with fresh tomatoes.  Still, in a pinch, I would not hesitate to use the tomato powder!"



Tina of Squirrel Head Manor has been suffering with a head cold so she doctored up a pack of Indian-spiced lentils and made a quick Bombay Lentil Soup. She said, "It seems like 2 weeks that this head cold has been with me but the reality is....it's only been a few days. It drains your energy level something awful so an easy fix for a hot comforting lunch was a convenience food from Tasty Bite. I doctored this packet of lentils up with some vegetable broth and it was wonderful."


Mahalo to everyone who joined in this week! 

Souper Sundays is back with a new format of a picture link each week where anyone interested can post their soups, salads, or sandwiches any time during the week and I post a recap of the entries the following week.)

(If you aren't familiar with Souper Sundays, you can read about of the origins of it here.
 

If you would like to join in Souper (Soup, Salad, and Sammie) Sundays, I would love to have you! Here's how...

To join in this week's linkup with your soup, salad or sandwich:


  • Link up your soup (stew, chili, soupy curries, etc. are fine), salad, or sandwich dish, (preferably one from the current week or month--but we'll take older posts too) on the picture link below and leave a comment on this post so I am sure not to miss you.

On your entry post (on your blog):
  • please mention Souper (Soup, Salad & Sammies) Sundays at Kahakai Kitchen and link back to this post.
  • you are welcome to add the wonderful Souper Sundays logo (created by Ivy at Kopiaste) to your post and/or blog (optional).


Have a happy, healthy week!
 

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

The Book Tour Stops Here: A Review of "The Possessions" by Sara Flannery Murphy, Served with a Recipe for (Not) Chicken and Mushroom Piccata

Today's TLC Book Tour stop features The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy,
an atmospheric, unique and slightly creepy thriller, with a touch of the supernatural about it. Accompanying my review is a recipe for a lemony (Not) Chicken and Mushroom Piccata, a dish inspired by the book.


Publisher's Blurb:

In this electrifying literary debut, a young woman who channels the dead for a living crosses a dangerous line when she falls in love with one of her clients, whose wife died under mysterious circumstances.

In an unnamed city, Eurydice works for the Elysian Society, a private service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones. She and her fellow workers, known as “bodies”, wear the discarded belongings of the dead and swallow pills called lotuses to summon their spirits—numbing their own minds and losing themselves in the process. Edie has been a body at the Elysian Society for five years, an unusual record. Her success is the result of careful detachment: she seeks refuge in the lotuses’ anesthetic effects and distances herself from making personal connections with her clients.
 
But when Edie channels Sylvia, the dead wife of recent widower Patrick Braddock, she becomes obsessed with the glamorous couple. Despite the murky circumstances surrounding Sylvia’s drowning, Edie breaks her own rules and pursues Patrick, moving deeper into his life and summoning Sylvia outside the Elysian Society’s walls.

After years of hiding beneath the lotuses’ dulling effect, Edie discovers that the lines between her own desires and those of Sylvia have begun to blur, and takes increasing risks to keep Patrick within her grasp. Suddenly, she finds her quiet life unraveling as she grapples not only with Sylvia’s growing influence and the questions surrounding her death, but with her own long-buried secrets.

A tale of desire and obsession, deceit and dark secrets that defies easy categorization, The Possessions is a seductive, absorbing page-turner that builds to a shattering, unforgettable conclusion.

Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Harper (February 7, 2017)


My Review:

This book is difficult to review in much detail beyond the blurb above without giving away plot points and the mysteries contained in its pages and I don't want to spoil it. I will say that it is strange and has a somewhat dystopian vibe and a bleak sort of beauty to it that drew me in almost immediately. The city and time it is set in are unnamed and there are times it feels futuristic and other times it feels like it could be set in the current day, or at least in the very near future. The author has woven the story together adeptly so that the less believable, more supernatural bits are cottoned in enough reality to make them convincing, while still being very *trippy* and fantasy-like. 

I often have challenges with books where I don't connect in some way with the main character and Eurydice (Edie) is difficult to connect tonwith her sparse way of relating what is happening and her purposeful distancing of herself from others. It worked though--providing added mystery and making me second-guess what would happen next. I also enjoyed the moral questions the novel made me think about. What if it were possible to channel a loved one through a service that offered up the 'bodies' of workers to communicate with and spend time with them, or say something that was not said while they were alive. Morally, is it justifiable? What are the ways it could be a positive and does that outweigh the negatives of altering the natural order of things?   

At times the pacing was erratic--it felt slow in various spots where I wanted more tension-building and then other times it felt too quick when I wanted more details and time to absorb them. Not everything is tidily wrapped up at the end--but overall it engaged me and left me thinking and wanting more. The fact that it is a debut novel makes it even more impressive in its uniqueness and execution.

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Author Notes: Sara Flannery Murphy grew up in Arkansas, where she divided her time between Little Rock and Eureka Springs, a small artists’ community in the Ozark Mountains. She received her MFA in creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis and studied library science in British Columbia. She lives in Oklahoma with her husband and son. The Possessions is her first novel.
 
Find out more about Sara at her website, and connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Food Inspiration:

There isn't a lot of food in the pages of The Possessions--various alcoholic beverages like beer, wine, whiskey and champagne, along with coffee and pink lemonade. There's mention of lunch in a cafe with the smell of fresh bread, food on delicate wicker trays, and a sandwich with red pepper and tomato. There are the visuals of the lotus pills, plum--both the fruit and the vivid lipstick on the cover, a bowl of cereal leftovers with pinkish rings, and birthday cake. The most detailed mention is the one I ended up taking my inspiration from for my book-inspired dish; a dinner that Edie cooks for Patrick of chicken capers and lemon. 

I've brought a bottle of wine to Patrick's house tonight. Glossy pink chicken under plastic, a glass bottle of brined capers, two lemons, olive oil. 

"What are you making?" he asks.

"It's a recipe my mother used to make." 

--The Possessions, Sara Flannery Murphy

I made the assumption that the dish was a chicken piccata--one of my favorite dishes when I still ate meat and poultry and one which I dabble in making meat-free variations that capture the flavors. 


I really wanted to make a stir-fried lotus root dish since the pills the bodies used to channel the dead were called lotuses and whether or not they were made from lotus--it made me think of the flowers. Unfortunately, likely because I was looking, I could find no lotus root at any of my local stores this week. Instead, I decided to make a meat-free version of Edie's family dish. 


Having a strong love of lemon and capers, I have made several meat-free versions of chicken piccata before--using mushrooms or chickpeas to stand in for the chicken breast. For this dish I wanted to use a vegan chicken replacement as a nod to the bodies, becoming the loved ones of their clients through an artificial means (how deep is that?!) ;-) Unfortunately, without driving into Whole Foods or a natural foods store, I couldn't find the right type of chicken substitute best for this dish (a scallopini-style chicken breast) and instead ended up with a package of grilled strips. I decided to supplement the mock-chicken with mushrooms for better flavor and texture.  

(Not) Chicken and Mushroom Piccata
By Deb, Kahakai Kitchen
(Serves 2 to 3)

2 Tbsp vegan butter or olive oil
1/2 sweet onion, quartered and thinly sliced
about 12 to 14-oz total chicken substitute of choice, or mushrooms or combination of both
3 cloves garlic,thinly sliced
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 Tbsp cold water + 1 Tbsp cornstarch
1 cup light vegetable stock
3 Tbsp capers, drained
3 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
1/3 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, coarsely chopped
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper 
linguini or pasta of choice, cooked al dente according to package direction 

In a medium-large pan, heat vegan butter/oil over medium heat. Add onions and chicken substitute if using saute for 6 to 7 minutes, or until onions are softened and chicken pieces are lightly browned. Add the garlic and thyme saute for another minute or two. Add mushrooms if using and cook about 5 minutes, until mushrooms begin to brown and soften, releasing their juices. 

Add white wine to pan and cook 3-4 minutes to reduce by about 1/2. Meanwhile, make a slurry by thoroughly combining cold water and cornstarch in a small bowl until completely mixed. Add the slurry and the vegetable stock to the pan and cook, stirring over medium heat until sauce is thickened--about 5 minutes. 

Add chopped parsley, capers, and lemon juice and cook another minute or two. Taste and add sea salt and plenty of freshly ground black pepper to taste.

To serve, place a small mound of pasta in a shallow bowl and top with the sauce and piccata mixture. Garnish with additional parsley, lemon zest and black pepper if desired. Enjoy! 


Notes/Results: Taste was spot on and the dish, had I used just the mushrooms, would have been an A+. Unfortunately, I should not have stuck to my desire to have a vegan chicken substitute in the dish and just gone with the meaty crimini mushrooms when I couldn't find the best type of chicken. Although these strips had an OK texture, the mushrooms were markedly better and they brought my self-rating down to a B. Still the recipe was tasty and it can be adapted to whatever you want in place of the chicken--pressed tofu, meat substitute, cauliflower steaks, chickpeas, etc.--even chicken if you are a carnivore. ;-) I like my piccata sauce plentiful and slightly thick for topping pasta (or rice or mashed potatoes) but you can omit the cornstarch slurry and have a thinner sauce as well. All-in-all, even with the chicken-sub mix, this dish hit the spot and solved my piccata craving. I will happily make it again. 


I'm linking this post up to the Weekend Cooking event at Beth Fish Reads, a weekly event that is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share. For more information, see the welcome post


Note: A review copy of the "The Possessions" was provided to me by the publisher, Harper Collins and TLC Book Tours. I was not compensated for this review and as always, my thoughts and opinions are my own.

You can see the stops for the rest of this TLC Book Tour and what other reviewers thought about the book here.


 

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Nigel Slater's Tomato, Fennel and Cod Soup: A Unique Fish Soup for Souper (Soup, Salad & Sammie) Sundays

This is a two-fish-dish week. I'm both working through some frozen fish and trying to add a little more protein to my diet this week. I had a bit over a pound of wild cod in the freezer and had been wanting to try this Tomato Fish Broth recipe from Nigel Slater in the The Guardian. I like unusual flavor combination and the combination of the fish, fennel, tomato and mushroom with the olives, pickles, dill and sour cream sounded tempting. 


I think dill can be a polarizing ingredient that people either love or hate (my sisters both detest it while I adore it) but if you do enjoy it, you will likely love this soup which has wonderful and unique flavor. I made a few changes to the recipe--noted in red below. It was perfect--light but warming for a cool breezy weekend.


Nigel says, "It was intriguing to come across a soup seasoned with sour ingredients. The version I ate in Helsinki was made with what they call pike-perch, but any sustainable white-fleshed fish that holds together well can be used." 

Tomato Fish Broth
Adapted from Nigel Slater via TheGuardian.com
(Serves 4 to 6)

onions: 2 medium (I used sweet yellow onions)
olive oil
garlic: 1 clove (I used 2)
tomatoes: 5 medium-sized
fennel: 1 small bulb
button mushrooms: a couple of handfuls
water or vegetable stock: 1 litre or 4 cups (I increased the amount for a brothier soup & used 3 cups shrimp stock & 3 cups light, low-sodium veggie broth)
gherkins: 2 medium-sized  (I used 5 baby dills + some juice) 

(I added 1 Tbsp capers)
olives: 16 (I used
Picholine green olives)
(I added about 1/4 cup of tiny pickled sweet red peppers)
parsley: a few sprigs
dill: 3 bushy sprigs
white fish fillets: 500g (about 1 1/4 lbs) (I used cod)
sour cream 4-6 tbsp (I used kefir labne--yogurt cheese)


Peel and roughly chop the onions. Soften them in a little olive oil in a heavy-based pan over a moderate heat. Peel and crush the garlic and add to the onions. Roughly chop the tomatoes and add to the pan. Let them cook to a slush with the onions. 


Finely slice the fennel and mushrooms and add to the pan. Cook for a few minutes until the fennel has started to soften a little. Pour in the water or stock and bring to the boil. Turn down the heat and simmer for 20 minutes, adding salt and black pepper.

Slice the gherkins, stone and halve the olives, chop the parsley and dill and set aside. Lower the fish into the stock and cook for 3 or 4 minutes until the fish is just opaque. Stir the gherkins, olives, parsley and dill into the soup. Correct the seasoning and, if you wish, add a little of the liquid from the gherkin jar. Ladle into warm bowls and add a spoonful of soured cream to each.
 

Notes/Results: I really love this soup which is unique in flavor profile and quite delicious when it is all combined together. The sour, tangy bites of the pickles, olives, dill and capers, along with the yogurt take the simple tomato-fennel-onion-cod combination to another level. I used good broth--some homemade shrimp stock and some good low-sodium veggie stock base and added some of the optional pickle juice which gave it a nice depth of flavor. The added tiny red pickled peppers were mainly added for color and the capers because I love them but they added to the mix. The kefir labne made a great substitution to sour cream and adds protein and probiotics with a great tangy flavor when stirred into the mix, but you can used the sour cream or crème fraîche or even plain yogurt. The only thing missing was some good bread that I forgot to buy to soak up the extra broth. I would definitely make this again.


This post is linking up to I Heart Cooking Clubs where the coming week is our February Potluck--our chance to make any recipe from our current chef Heidi Swanson, or any of our previous IHCC featured chefs. You can see what everyone made by checking out the picture links on the post.


We have some good friends with delicious dishes waiting in the Souper Sundays kitchen from last week--let's have a look!


Ali of Fix Me a little Lunch shared Macadamia Lemon Shrimp Salad and said, "I’ve been curious about the whole Whole 30 thing – by and large, minus the carbs, cheese and dairy, Clay and I eat a pretty healthy diet.  However, my lunches have been a little decadent here of late (I’m blaming the weather and the need for comfort food).  As spring is finally starting to peek around the corner, I think I’m ready for some healthier lunches.  So this week’s recipe is my inspired #FoodBlogerLove salad, which is Whole 30, quick, easy and definitely healthy."



Tina of Squirrel Head Manor tried Ina Garten's Pea Soup that she described as "more like pea sludge." She said, "No matter how much broth I added it would absorb.  Like pancakes soak up syrup........it became a sludge.  Yes, I did eat it and bless his heart, my supportive husband ate it too. It tasted fairly good considering the texture was like hummus. We had to use bread to scoop it, like hummus, rather than soaking up the non-existent broth.  Too weird.  Why am I sharing this dumpster fire of a meal?  Because we learn from mistakes in the kitchen and I know I don't want to make this recipe again."



Debra of Eliot's Eats shared Lentil Soup with Chorizo inspired by a recent book review. She said, "I wanted to make that lentil soup that she and her skiing partner ate for every lunch while in Cerro Catedral (Patagonia).  The ate so much of this soup their “pee started to smell weird.” (That’s a great endorsement to make this soup, don’t you think?  My motivation came from her description that it was sooooo good that they ate it every day.) This is a hearty dish and I would eat it everyday for lunch as well if I could."



Here at Kahakai Kitchen I made Scrambled Egg Sandwiches with Sriracha-Garlic Mayo for a recent book review. I love egg sandwiches and the Sriracha-Garlic Mayo is my adaptation of a spicy garlic aioli that is served on avocado toast at my favorite local coffee shop. It went well with the eggs and took the basic sandwich to a new level. 

  
Mahalo to everyone who joined in this week! 

Souper Sundays is back with a new format of a picture link each week where anyone interested can post their soups, salads, or sandwiches any time during the week and I post a recap of the entries the following week.)

(If you aren't familiar with Souper Sundays, you can read about of the origins of it here.
 

If you would like to join in Souper (Soup, Salad, and Sammie) Sundays, I would love to have you! Here's how...

To join in this week's linkup with your soup, salad or sandwich:

  • Link up your soup (stew, chili, soupy curries, etc. are fine), salad, or sandwich dish, (preferably one from the current week or month--but we'll take older posts too) on the picture link below and leave a comment on this post so I am sure not to miss you.

On your entry post (on your blog):
  • please mention Souper (Soup, Salad & Sammies) Sundays at Kahakai Kitchen and link back to this post.
  • you are welcome to add the wonderful Souper Sundays logo (created by Ivy at Kopiaste) to your post and/or blog (optional).


 
 Have a happy, healthy week!