Veggie Soup (Hot)

This great health-booster is a favorite of those who subscribe to the “everything including the kitchen sink” (K-SINK) cooking method. Free spirits who like to cook for fun are also quite partial to it—as are … Read More

Sweet ‘N’ Tart Cherry Soup

Cherries are held in such high esteem, that Hungarians actually have two separate words with which they differentiate the sweet cherries (cseresznye) that light up fresh fruit platters from their smaller, darker, mouth-puckering-sour cousins (megy), … Read More

Golden Gazpacho – the Liquid Salad (Cold)

During a visit in the south of Spain, the Kitchen Shrink fell in love with the traditional Andalusian chilled veggie soup the locals called Gazpacho. This liquid salad mélange of ripe tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, … Read More

Love Salad

The Asparagus and Tomato Salad has long been regarded as an aphrodisiac by Mediterranean cultures. The phallic symbol of the asparagus is combined with the Love Apple—as tomatoes are still called in Greek, Hebrew and … Read More

Warm Aphrodisiac Arugula Salad

1 package (7 ounces) of arugula 3 ounces of pignolia (pine nuts) or slivered almonds 5 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil 4 tablespoons of red wine vinegar 1 small red onion, minced 1 Roma … Read More