SISTER MARGARET IS A giver. That’s why, over on that OTHER blog of hers, she very generously gave away five (FIVE!) copies of the amazing, yes, lovely, garden-to-table cookbook Love Soup by Anna Thomas (winner, as it happens, just last week of the 2010 James Beard award for “Healthy Focus” cookbook of the year). “Hey! Wait a second!” said I. “What about the fabulous foodie sisters here on TSP? Don’t they deserve some soupy-and-more love, too?” Margaret is a giver, and so is author Anna Thomas, and as a result, we’ve got three more copies of this wonderful book for YOU to win. Want one? Read on.
Thanks to everyone who entered; the contest is now closed. Watch the homepage for an announcement of the winners! To be entered to win a copy of Love Soup, just tell us what you’re hoping to cook from your bounty this summer–and if there’s no garden at your place, tell us about your favorite seasonal dish to come with fixings from the farmer’s market or green grocer. (You can either provide a link to your recipe, or type it out in comments.) Winners will be chosen at random from all commenters on Friday, May 13. (Let’s make that a lucky day, shall we?) Cook on, sisters (and brothers, too, of course)!
Need inspiration first? My garden-to-table food blog list is here, fyi. And Margaret’s recent Asparagus Fest around the topic of this great Anna Thomas cookbook is here. Enjoy.
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Cooking out of my comfort zone this year is my mission. Whatever the farm stand has to offer is going to show up on our table. The adventure begins tomorrow with rhubarb, which I’ve never had outside of a pie. I’ll also pick up some asparagus to add to a risotto. Thanks for offering the chance to win LOVE SOUP. It is definitely a book I want on my shelf.
The meal that I look forward to the most is that first hand picked homegrown tomato with sliced mozzarella, fresh basil leaves and a good olive oil drizzled over all. To me, nothing says summer like this does.
I’m just hoping I have a garden bounty to choose from! Tomatoes, beans, squash…hope this isn’t wishful thinking!
I love this book. I’ve bought it for three people so far, none of whom have been myself! I’m cooking lots from the garden, but really I’m just excited about the artichokes I put in last week….
I LOVE SOUP, even in the winter. I will make tomatoe based soups and add whatever greens are ready to be picked fresh. Even when it’s hot out, I just eat them closer to room temp. Very comforting whatever the weather is outside.
Summer delights of fresh green beans, asparagus roasted on the BBQ, and fresh tomatoes with a bit of olive olive, topped with mozzarella and a bit of feta… pure delight.
My greatest foodie dream came true already this summer! We made an au gratin dish with new potatoes and sunchokes! photo here. I’ve wanted to try this for so long, and it finally manifested in my kitchen. Highly recommended with Gruyère!
I have been waiting for this book from the library for forevvvvvvvvver!! The queue is so long! I would love to win this book!
Oh shoot, I got so excited I forgot to share my recipe. http://troutcaviar.blogspot.com/2010/02/big-borscht.html This is an excellent blog, local to me in the midwest. Brett highlights local/ foraged food and how to prepare it.
I can’t get enough of beets- borscht with some yogurt on top as a garnish is my favorite soup in the world!
I have a 10 x 10 spot in my driveway where the sun shines maybe 4 hours a day. That hasn’t stopped me from planting an organic garden of 18 tomato plants along with cucumbers, eggplant, squash and herbs. My water barrel is close by so they can catch some extra rain water. Now, if the rabbits and the deer and the fox will just leave some for us, I’ll be able to live on tomato sandwiches and vegetable soup this summer, and share the love with my husband, my elderly mother and tomato-starved neighbors.
I am hopeful to have so many (any! Please!) heirloom tomatoes this year I will be scrambling to make fried green tomatoes out of the overflow when it turns cold again. We were locked in drought with too high temperatures last year and I only had 3 tomatoes that made it to our table.
Hello Sisters, I love soup too!
It’s a bit boring but my favorite soup is chicken noodle – broth made from my own old Rooster, home made noodles and all the good veggies from the garden. I’m trying again to grow celery – have never gotten that to work, but you have to have celery to make broth in my mind anyways. Speaking of chickens I’ve got to go feed them,
Cheers,
Megan
I will, with luck, be harvesting my first crop of shitakes this summer; so, mushroom soup is definitely on the menu.
After being an apartment dweller for several years I am delighting in having our first garden in our new (old) 1912 California Delta bungalow. I am especially looking forward to having fresh Sage whenever I want it which is just about every day! I love Sage – the eternal herb that if I had had a child I would have named her, or him, Sage! I also love to saute the sage leaves in olive oil until they are slightly crispy and then sprinkle them on my fresh garden soups and other garden to table dishes. Thus far I’ve planted six Sage plants and they all make me smile very day.
With this nasty cold I can not even think about the garden right now. But a good soup sounds so… good!
My husband just made a huge batch of pesto with our basil, which will be perfect over pasta, or any other million ways you can use pesto.
Oh crumb. I missed it. And I love, LOVE, Anna Thomas cookbooks, and somehow, mine are in storage somewhere in Ottawa instead of here in Switzerland with me. As a result, I can’t make her pea soup with butter dumpling, or tomato soup with little couscous dumplings. There are no similar recipes on the internet; I’ve checked.
Ah well…
I’ve committed her German Apple Pancake recipe to memory, and make it for the kids all the time (much less fussy than the version put out by America’s Test Kitchen).