Coconut Red Lentil Soup

When my son was just weeks old, we started an infant massage class. He LOVED it. He’d lay on his back and just surrender—his chubby limbs falling limp to my gentle touch. Our instructor, amused by my son’s obvious pleasure, said, it looks like you’ve got yourself a little massage hog. She was right. Two years… Read More

White Velvet Soup

This quick and warming cauliflower soup uses the texture of cauliflower and beans to make a creamy, velvety, and comforting soup. Roasting the cauliflower before blending into the soup adds robust flavor and bone-warming properties. The beauty of this deeply satisfying soup is that it’s so easy to make you almost don’t need a recipe.… Read More

Mung Bean Soup

I love one-pot cooking. I’ve embraced it as my go-to technique for those times when I just have no time. When I cook, I’m anything but neat. My husband says when the kitchen looks as if a typhoon has passed through, he knows I’m happy, working on some culinary adventure and something delicious is likely to… Read More

Liberation Soup (Soup Joumou)

Each year Haitian households celebrate their country’s independence on January 1st, the anniversary of Haiti’s Liberation from France, with a traditional soup called soup joumou. During France’s rule of Haiti, the soup was considered a delicacy and forbidden to the slaves. Since Independence in 1804, Haitians have enjoyed this comforting soup as a historical tribute to… Read More