So today I offer a warming bowl of wholesome goodness that can wash away the "Debbie Downer" of darker days. A soup that will help you retain the healthy glow of summer, full of body
Late summer has arrived, Labor Day has come and gone, days are becoming shorter, the air is dryer and cotton puff clouds decorate deep blue skies. It's September and I feel that blue sky coloring my heart with the ominous sense that colder, darker days are ahead...and winter...ugh!
So today I offer a warming bowl of wholesome goodness that can wash away the "Debbie Downer" of darker days. A soup that will help you retain the healthy glow of summer, full of body I have fallen in love with the flavors of Indian cuisine. The intensely fragrant spices of curry, cardamom, cloves, cumin, cinnamon, coriander and so many more create complex characteristics so uniquely intriguing and perhaps intimidating to some. So foreign are the flavors and yet they are beautifully heady with sweet rich perfumes of spices many have never explored. I am not an expert, but I am hooked! You can have your spaetzle and eat it too! For those of us who prefer to keep wheat products very limited, and yet love an occasional excursion into the gooey-guilty-glutenous world of comfort food, I am happy to report that things are looking very good! Spaetzle, or "nókedli" in Hungarian, was as common on our plate as pasta is to an Italian. Anyu, "mom" in Hungarian, would whip up a batch regularly to sop up all the drippy sauciness of her amazing chicken or pork pörkölt (meat stew). And always, there was the snappy accompaniment |
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