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Soup

A digest of soup recipes using Provencal ingredients for all seasons – a steaming bowl on a cold day or the perfect cure summer heat.

Provencal Chickpea Soup Satisfying for Everyone

September 21, 2020

Also known as Fourmade, is at its very core a hearty soup made by impoverished people to provide an inexpensive and healthy filling meal. This soup surprisingly rich and luxurious tasting. Once you make the basic recipe try embellishing with leeks, chickpeas, grated Parmesan, cooked rice or even croutons fried in olive oil.…

Maison Mirabeau Wines · Provencal Recipes · Soup · Taste

Green Melon Gazpacho Chilled Soup

August 10, 2020

Paula Sachs recipe turns traditional gazpacho on its head with this green melon version. The soup is easy to make, best served well chilled and suitable for vegan diets. No cooking required, which is terrific on hot summer days.…

David Scott Allen · Provencal Recipes · Soup · Taste

Cold Summer Soup with Blueberry and Lavender

June 3, 2020

There are some ingredients that remind you of a place you’ve been or, in this case, a place you lived. The state of Maine is one of those places with its fabulous seafood – lobster, clams and Gulf-of-Maine shrimp. Summer eating in this coastal state is all about lobster roll sandwiches and big bright blueberries. …

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Provencal Soup with Mussels – Soupe de Moules

May 18, 2020

Hint: if the soup is too salty, add more water.…

David Scott Allen · Provencal Recipes · Soup · Taste

Quick and Easy Coconut Curry Chicken Soup

January 20, 2020

Traditional Provencal cuisine used hyper-local ingredients, picked from the potager (kitchen garden), foraged in the hills, and hunted nearby. In a region where dairy and beef were only available for the wealthy, ingredients such as coconut milk, curry and lime definitely were not part of any cook’s pantry. Today, Provencal menus are hyper-global with chefs …

David Scott Allen · Provencal Recipes · Soup · Taste

Creamy Mushroom and Chestnut Soup for Fall Weather

December 9, 2019

Luckily, this recipe for Creamy Mushroom and Chestnut Soup is so delicious it has stopped my brown food colour rant in its tracks.…

François de Mélogue · Provencal Recipes · Soup · Taste

Marseille Fish Soup – Soupe de Poisson

May 6, 2019

Marseille Fish Soup - Soupe de Poissons You will want to make a big batch and freeze what you don’t eat. Making fish soup at home can be a very messy, labor-intensive process. …

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Hand Rolled Beeswax Candles

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