Posted by Loulou on Oct 28, 2024 | 16 comments

And you’ll want more than a soupçon (soopson…a little bit). I sneaked in this old pic because…well…it’s hard to show floating soup, haha!

Soup is a lot like life. It’s all about what you put in it. Unknown

Well, that’s our soup spark for today. Mama went right in the kitchen and made the soup with the pear in it and this is what it looks like from the start. Recipe:

4 tablespoons olive oil

1 tablespoon butter

2 grilled and peeled red sweet peppers (mama likes them seared and peeled first but you can use them raw; the taste will be different but still good, I’m sure), sliced medium

1 large sweet onion or 4 shallots, sliced medium

2 large carrots, sliced medium

1 large Comice pear, cored and sliced medium

Chicken or vegetable broth to cover

Salt and pepper

Pinch of peperoncino or cayenne

Fresh tarragon for each bowl or pinch of dried tarragon in the soup

In a soup pot, heat the butter and olive oil, add the sliced vegetables and broth to cover, and simmer for 25 minutes until all the vegetables are soft. Let cook slightly and with a hand mixer purée the whole shebang until very smooth. Add a squeeze of lemon, heat and serve.

Well, it’s not exactly the color of an October sunset but maybe a close second, maybe there were clouds….BUT, this soup is DELICIOUS! Thank you, Cathy Salter, and your newsletter and Martha Stewart. A new winter soup to warm our catcles!

Of course I guided mama the whole way on this one, but she’s not totally aware of that. Still…I suggested the touch of lemon…

that soup was paw-lickin’ good!