Soups

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Potage Crécy (Creamy Carrot Soup (France)

Can’t get much simpler than this: Carrots, Potato, Shallot, salt, pepper, chicken stock with some crême fraiche. Excellent both hot and cold. It’s great as long as you like carrots.

30 minutes total
Would make it again? Yes

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Lemon Soup (Lithuania)

Here’s all you need to know: Hoang said this soup, consisting of chicken stock, lemon rind, egg yolks, flour, lemon juice and sour cream sounded “gross.” Then she proceeded to slurp up her whole bowl saying, “I really like this.” Oddly, I didn’t so much.

20 minutes total
Would make it again? No

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Almond Soup (Spain)

Bittman himself calls it “unusual” and “mystifying,” but it’s really very good. Getting the almonds and bread down to a paste is impossible until you get it boiling again and smash up the clumps a bit. We were both surprised at how much we liked it.

Serve: Hot or Cold (we liked the hot)
40 minutes total
Would make it again? Yes

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