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French easy watercress soup. Soupe de Cresson

watercress soup

Watercress soup

 

This soup is so easy to make and fast too. American do not use too much watercress in their cooking/ eating. It is surprising since it is similar in nutrition and cancer fighting as kale. But if kale has an hard texture and pretty hard to chew on and eat raw watercress [...]

Winter Comfort Soup: Cabbage,Noodles, Mung beans and Peanut butter Soup

 

 

cabbage mung bean and peanut miso soup

Finally winter arrived in Southern California. Call me crazy but I love it.  It is cold and rainy. Very rainy actually. I guess I can say  that I love it since it doesn’t affect my day since I am working from home. Some chai tea on my [...]

Bonjour Detox ! ( with menu samples and easy recipes)

green smoothie & beet apple celery soup

My husband and myself like to detox once in a while, it is always good to flush away toxins and loose extra pounds.

Summer is the best time to start a detox if you can do it while you are on vacation this is perfect. A good [...]

Easy Soup: Fresh Fava beans soup

For years my sister who lives in Paris, France has been raving about fresh fava beans. On my side I knew only the dried ones and never tasted fresh ones. So I was very happy to see that Rays Ranch ( Temecula Farmer’s Market) was selling some fresh ones last Wednesday. I thought it will [...]

Giouvarlakia Avglolemonom Greek soup

 

 

Soups lovers you will love this soup!

Giouvarlakia is a fantastic northern Greece  soup made of meatballs, rice, in a light and creamy lemon-egg Avgolemono sauce. Avglolemonom – egg (avgo) and lemon juice (lemoni) means lemon and egg soup. This soup becomes the perfect base for some tiny fragrant Greek meatballs  Giouvalakia, made from either ground [...]

Chorba North African soup

Chorba Soup

I live in Southern California, Temecula Valley between San Diego, Los Angeles and near Palm Springs. The decor is very similar to Morocco (North Africa): dry hills, palm, dates, avocados, almonds, and olive trees. The weather is beautiful all year long with hot summer and cold winter nights. Like in Morocco when [...]

Happy Chinese New Year 2012 – The Year of the Dragon!

Asian Soup

Today January 23, 2012 at midnight will start the first day of the Chinese New Year. This is one of the most important Chinese Holidays, it lasts for 15 days, each year is associated with one of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac, and this year is the Year of the [...]

Soupe du Jour: A soup as light as a cloud – Fumiko Ono Soup by Sooishi

Great and delicious food does not need to be complicated and fancy. Really simple cooking technique can make big effect. What is really important is using the best and delicious seasonal ingredients you can find.

I discovered this recipe through Sooishi Blog few months ago by chance and loved this blog and its philosophy [...]