Outpost 505

I’m a little in love with Sprouted Kitchen.  Their food photography is consistently wonderful – to the point that when I showed Shane tonight’s recipe on the blog, he asked “do they cook outside?”.  Seriously, they must be blessed with the best lighting in all of Southern California.
This dish feels very Southern Californian to me  [...]

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I ran my second 5K of the year this morning: the annual Dexter-Ann Arbor Run.  I had intended to run the 10K, but an injury a few weeks ago has kept me sidelined, and this was the longest run I’ve managed in a few weeks.  As always, the best part of running a race is [...]

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Like last night, it was unseasonably cold and rainy tonight – a good night for a simple but filling soup and for sitting on the couch.  While Shane ran a few errands, I sauteed onions, garlic,  and a leftover sausage in a bit of butter, then added chicken stock and simmered the whole thing with [...]

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Today was just – gray.  Gray.  And wet.  And sleepy.  I kept opening the front door to check on the weather, hoping that the rain had let up so that I could run, and then closing the door and pouting.
Shane got home mid-afternoon, exhausted from Dark Lord Day debauchery and from the drive home, and [...]

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I seem to only plan to make soup on days when the weather is patently inappropriate for it – like today, when the temperatures neared 80.  This recipe – and the asparagus from the market – looked too good to wait for cooler weather, so soup for dinner it was.  I started [...]

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If last night DEFINITELY was not soup weather, tonight definitely was.  We both did some shopping downtown, and by the time we headed home, it was cold and rainy and I had cut up my feet by walking in wet shoes with no socks.

Shane made this soup last week for the guys, and we liked [...]

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Dinner really couldn’t have been easier, which is such an amazing thing to be able to say when the dinner in question is hearty, healthy, and delicious.  The recipe?  Prep your ingredients, put ‘em in a pot, and let ‘em simmer away for 3 hours.  That 3 hours is the worst part, as within 30 [...]

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This morning started with just about the best mood one can ask for on a Monday. I was happy, I had a delicious bagel for breakfast, and I was out the door on time. And then I took a hard fall on my ass on the icy driveway, and spent the rest of [...]

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We planned this week’s meals over breakfast at Plum Market this morning, flipping through cookbooks and magazines spread around our coffee cups and pastry plates. I like this part of the weekend – anticipating what we’ll feel like eating for the week ahead, picking out the more intensive recipes for a special weekend meal.
For [...]

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We made soup last night:

I’m calling it Spring Farmers’ Market soup, or: using up stuff from the fridge before it goes bad.  With each bite we could taste the flavors of the different veggies – cherry tomatoes, spring onions, asparagus – infusing the broth.  I also enriched (a la Giada) the stock with a hunk [...]

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