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Chicken, Lemon and White Bean Soup (a video and a hug in a bowl)
There are times when you feel rotten and you need something to make you feel better. Maybe it’s a honking cold. Maybe it’s a hangover. Maybe it’s manflu. Or maybe it’s just the mean reds. Whatever it...
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French Onion Soup – Les Miserables
The film: The dish: The reason: I stole a loaf of bread. My sister’s child was close to death, and we were starving… (Jean Valjean) And so it begins. At the end of the day, this is a Gallic soup for...
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Kale, Pea, Courgette and Apple Soup (with Chorizo Almond Crumble)
Sometimes dishes come from escapist inspiration. It’s about conjuring a memory of time spent away, and recreating the experience of ‘other’. You might write elegiac blog posts about them (and perhaps...
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Chilled Honeydew, Cucumber and Mint Soup
There are things I can no longer do. I cannot twirl without losing my balance like a drunk. I cannot sleep for more than three hours at a stretch. I cannot see piles of plates next to a sink without...
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Cock-a-leekie (chicken and leek soup) with rolled quinoa
The sky has changed. For three weeks we had a a comical winter, with Derwent Pencil Cornflower Blue horizons and borderline balmy days. It was ripe for long walks along beaches with visiting friends....
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Smoked Paprika, Sweet Potato, Red Lentil and Chickpea Soup
There’s a great line in one of my favourite 90’s films; ‘I never did mind about the little things’. I’m not a big one for violence – real or simulated. (The Hungry One now refuses to watch Game of...
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Pea, Ham and Edamame Soup
Drafted: 1.45 pm, Monday 15 December. Sydney. Comfort food means different things to different people. In this house, it’s pea and ham soup. It’s mild and coddling, thrifty and reliable. As long as...
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Alphabet Gulyassuppe (Gulash Soup) – The Imitation Game
It’s that time of year again. OscarsFeast has started! Please excuse the break in regular slow carb programming for some escapist delights. First cab off the rank of the eight films nominated for Best...
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Pea Soup with Potato Thyme Cream – The Theory of Everything
The Film: The Dish: The Reason: If you can easily trace Stephen Hawking’s (Eddie Redmayne) theories of time and relativity, feel free to skip ahead to the recipe at the bottom. If like the rest of us...
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Stay Well Soup
Who has time to be sick these days? Once upon a time, it was a release. A physical reprieve from routine. Poor fortune disguised as an invitation to retreat under the duvet with the television remote,...
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Carrot, Sweet Potato and Mandarin Dhal
Comfort food does not have to be a bowl of carbohydrates quivering under an equal weight of grated cheese. Granted, sometimes that is the most obvious salve, yet if you have the patience to explore...
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(Dairy Free) Sweet Corn Chowder
Maybe you don’t get excited by soup. Maybe the concept of having ready-to-go, flat packed, ziplock bags of soups in the freezer ready to warm and soothe you doesn’t help you sleep soundly at night. Or...
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Leek and White Bean Soup
Do you need a silky bowl of soup, stat? Do you need something that is deceptively dairy free, elegant but homely, calming and pluckily thrifty? If so, then I think this slow carb twist on vichysoisse...
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