Six Lentil Soups I Have Loved for Souper (Soup, Salad & Sammie) Sundays + A Bonus Favorite

I am getting busier and lazier lately and it shows in Souper Sundays as I think this is the third time in two months where I have not made a new soup. It was warm and humid, I was tired and trying to finish up a work project for next week and not down for being in the kitchen. Instead, I bring you a set of six lentil soups I have loved. 

This is not a comprehensive list as I have 50 recipes on the site tagged with "lentils" and most are soup. Also, I picked recipes from some of the 21 featured chefs we cook along with at I Heart Cooking Clubs. 

A soup I have made multiple times is Mark Bittman's simple Red Lentil Soup with Lemon

Ottolenghi's Puy Lentil and Eggplant Stew is a great combination of flavors. 

Very basic but very good, Eric Ripert's Instagram Lentil Soup:

A little fancier take (use the good lentils and olive oil please!) ;-) is Ina's Lentil Vegetable Soup:

A different take on lentil soup is Giada's Lentil and Pasta Soup 

Heidi Swanson's Lentil Chili (Pierce Street Vegetarian Chili) 

I was all done with my six and a I remembered this one: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Lentil Soup with Caraway and Minted Yogurt:

There you go. Soup, stew, chili, some basic and some unique but all are memorable and perfect for a rainy day which is why I am linking them up at I Heart Cooking Clubs for this week's Rainy Day Eats theme.

Let's see who is here in the Souper Sundays kitchen this week: 

Judee of Gluten Free A - Z Blog shares a Mango Coleslaw this week saying, "Coleslaw is one of my favorite salads.  You can imagine how excited I was to find this mango coleslaw recipe. With hues of orange, purple, and light greens from vegetables, this tasty vegan slaw is beautiful to serve for any occasion. The addition of slices of fresh mango adds a delicate sweetness that enhances this vegan and gluten-free side dish."

Also feeling the cabbage this week was Crafty Gardener with their Soup'er Cabbage Soup, saying "To use the remainder of the cabbage I made some cabbage soup.I always cook a big batch of soup so there is lots for the freezer for later. This time I made two dishes of casserole and froze one of them. Both the soup and cabbage casserole freeze well."

Radha of Magical Ingredients for a Wholesome Life From the Heart of My Home shared two flavorful bowls this week, saying "Mulligatawny soup is the comfortable soup the we had growing up. When are in good health or when we are sick, this is the one we always had. Milagu Thanni (Pepper water) became Mulligatawny soup. Traditionally, this is a broth, but there are so many variations including creamy dal version. And is served over rice. It can be had as such too. South Indian Rasam falls in the broth category. There are many different styles of rasam and today I am sharing the Pepper - Cumin Rasam which is our Mulligatawny Soup."

For her second soup, Radha shared this Instant Pot Slowcooked Chipotle Corn Chowder saying, "This is simple, easy to make soup filled with flavors from fresh corn and chipotle peppers. Also, this is one of our favorite soups. This is a slow cooked version using Instant Pot. Instant Pot is handy when you need to make things quicker or use as a slow cooker. This is a blessing for me to make quick meals as well as slow cooked ones in one single appliance."

Thank you to all who joined me this week!

 

(If you aren't familiar with Souper Sundays, you can read about of the origins of it here.
 

If you would like to join in Souper (Soup, Salad, and Sammie) Sundays, I would love to have you! Here's how...

To join in this week's Souper Sunday's linkup with your soup, salad or sandwich:

• Link up your soup (stew, chili, soupy curries, etc. are fine), salad, or sandwich dish, (preferably one from the current week or month--but we'll take older posts too) on the picture link below and leave a comment on this post so I am sure not to miss you. Also please see below for what to do on your blog post that you link up to Souper Sundays in order to be included in the weekly round-up.
• Although we are pretty wide on what defines a soup, sandwich or salad, entries that are clearly not in the same family (ie: desserts, meats, random main or side dishes that aren't salads, etc.) are meant for another round up and will be deleted. 

and 

On your entry post (on your blog):

• Mention Souper (Soup, Salad & Sammies) Sundays at Kahakai Kitchen and add a link back to this post. (Not to be a pain but it's polite and only fair to link back to events you link up at--so if you link a post up here without linking back to this post or my blog on your post, it will be removed.)
• You are welcome to add the Souper Sundays logo to your post and/or blog (completely optional).

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Have a happy, healthy week!

 

Tangy Pimiento Cheese Inspired by "The Gravedigger's Guild" by Susan Farris

I am happy to offer up a book review today for The Gravedigger's Guild, a new Southern Gothic novel by Susan Farris. Adding to that happiness is noshing on some delicious Tangy Pimiento Cheese inspired by my reading from one of the author's own recipes. 

Publisher's Blurb:

Alice Matins is dead. With the passing of this Mississippi matriarch, estranged sisters Maggy and Quinn collide over the course of Alice's wake and funeral amidst a motley band of gossiping church ladies and feuding gravediggers.

As storm clouds gather, the two women unbury secrets from their past involving Quinn's husband that could resurrect their once-strong sisterly bond. But he has secrets of his own.

The Gravedigger's Guild examines the indelible ties of sisterhood and the complicated legacy we leave behind.

With a style similar to Andrea Bobotis (The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt), this novel will appeal to readers who enjoy stories of strong sibling relationships like Tara Conklin's The Last Romantics and fans of picturesque Southern tales like Sweet Magnolias. 

 

As my time is limited, I don't do a lot of extra book reviews and tours outside of the ones I do with my regular book tour group, but when Susan Farris approached me on through Instagram about reviewing her book, I was intrigued by the premise and quickly said yes. 

The Gravedigger's Guild is about a family and church community that gather for the funeral and wake of the beloved matriarch of a small Mississippi town. Alice leaves behind two grown daughters. Maggy is the youngest and arrives from New York City have recently broken up with her long-term live-in boyfriend and having lost her job as a fashion editor for daring to take time off for her mother's funeral. Quinn, her older sister, is a stay-at-home mother five children (from teenager to baby) and is married to Maggy's old boyfriend Collins. These once close sisters have been somewhat estranged ever since Quinn announced her relationship with Collins and her pregnancy of now teen-aged Allie) and they don't come together easily, with both holding on to resentments. There are secrets, resentments and other drama with the supporting characters too, primarily Collins, Allie, the single church pastor Father Derek Fry, the community's women, and the titular Gravedigger's Guild -- tasked with finding the right spot and digging the graves so the community's citizens can pass on in a traditional, dignified manner. 

Susan Farris packs a lot of drama into 317 pages in this novel that started as a short story. I was firmly "Team Maggy" throughout most of the story, getting annoyed with Quinn's attitude towards her but slowly grew to understand Quinn's side of things. The church women and the Guild provide a lot of the humor and heart of the book, with the former trying to use their years of matchmaking skills to pair Maggy with Father Fry and get her to stay in town, and the later running into all kinds of trouble finding Alice a place to rest with all of the tree roots and other cemetery occupants slowing down the process of the digging. Besides the stormy relationships, there is a real storm brewing and her descriptive prose made me see, feel and experience the rain, wind and weather. I did have some trigger's with this book, mainly the loss of my own mom coming on six years now, but the sometimes dark humor and heart in the story telling, kept it from bogging me down. I was most interested in the traditions and ceremony of the wake and burial in this community and liked the emphasis on that process as it wasn't something I was familiar with. Overall, The Gravedigger's Guild was an enjoyable and engaging read and I was sad to reach the last page of it. If you like family and sisterly drama, Southern fiction and Southern Gothic tales, you will enjoy this one as much as I did.

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Author Notes: Susan Farris is a former marketing manager with her MFA in Creative Writing from Lindenwood University and a background in editing and tutoring other writers.The Gravedigger’s Guild is her debut novel and she has a collection of poetry coming out soon called Flooding the Delta that experiments with the Thai Nirat form of poetry. When she is not wrangling words on the page, she can be found gardening, playing board games, or snuggled up with her three cats and two dogs appreciating her husband’s amazing cooking skills.

 

Food Inspiration: 

You can't have a book set around a Southern funeral and wake that doesn't include a lot of food so the food mentions and inspiration in The Gravedigger's Guild were plentiful and included: "delicious whiffs from the Crock-Pots and towel wrapped casserole dishes," barbecued meatballs, pecans, PB & J sandwiches, jars of sweet tea and tubs of sliced lemons, finger sandwiches (cucumber finger sandwiches were mentioned a few times), cake, potatoes, scotch, popcorn, marinara sauce, pea salad, poppyseed chicken, chicken cacciatore, syrup over pancakes, Stouffer's lasagna, Mac-and-cheese, biscuits, eggs and bacon, cream, "Mrs. Greave's infamous chocolate chip muffins," hot chocolate, a pot of soup or hearty casserole, Sunday roast, tea cakes, fragrant buttery cookies, turkey, pimento cheese sandwiches, sausage rolls, broccoli salad, pimiento cheese, cheese balls, and sausage wheels. 

Susan sent along a couple of PDFs to accompany the e-book link including her a marked-up chapter she sent to her pre-order readers (so interesting to see her writing process) and a packet of recipes she created inspired by the book including Burnt End Lasagna, Cucumber-Dill tea Sandwiches, Mrs. Greaves' Chocolate Chip Muffins, Tangy Pimiento Cheese, Southern Sweet Tea, and Old-Fashioned Tea Cakes. Because I am such a fan, I had an immediate hankering for pimiento cheese and so I used that recipe (see excerpt below) for my book-inspired dish.

 
 

I kept to Susan's recipe for the most part. My only addition were these frozen Sautéed Glazed Onions (my new secret weapon in many dishes) and adding a little apple cider vinegar to make my  not-so-tangy mayo a bit more like the Duke's brand she recommended. I forgot to buy some chives or onions to top my dip, so I grated a little extra cheese on top at the end. 

Notes/Results: What can I say, I love pimiento cheese and this is a good one, thick and creamy, not gloppy and well seasoned with just a little kick. I didn't have the beloved Southern Duke's mayonnaise, which has more of a tang than the Kraft Mayo I had on hand so I added 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in to add that tangy kick. It was delicious on crackers and again the next day as a sandwich. I am looking forward to making a grilled cheese with it this weekend. I'd happily make it again.

I'm sharing this post with the Weekend Cooking event  being hosted by Marg at The Adventures of An Intrepid Reader. It's a weekly event that is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share. 

Note: A review copy of The Gravedigger's Guild was provided to me by the author in return for a fair review. I was not compensated for this review and as always, my thoughts and opinions are my own.

 

Jacques Pepin's Garlic Soup: Putting It On Repeat for Souper (Soup, Salad & Sammie) Sundays

This week, I decided to remake an easy recipe, this Garlic Soup from Jacques Pepin. (Here's my first post on it from 2016.) It's pretty low effort with just a few ingredients. I skip the step of running it through a food mill or food processor and in fact just scooped out some of the potatoes and most of the garlic and tossed them in the blender. 

Don't skip out on the croutons though--they really add a lot to the slightly sweet garlicky broth. I had leftover Swiss cheese-black pepper bread which gave this extra flavor. 

Garlic Soup
Adapted from Jacques Pépin via The New York Times
(Serves 6)

4 Tbsp olive oil  
2 medium-size leeks, trimmed of damaged or fibrous leaves, sliced & washed 
12 to 15 cloves garlic, peeled, stems and any damaged parts removed & discarded 
7 cups chicken stock (I used veggie 'non-chicken' stock) 
2 lbs potatoes, peeled & cut into 1-inch cubes (about 4 cups) 
1 tsp salt or to taste 
4 slices firm-textured white bread, cut into 1/2-inch cubes for croutons 
2 Tbsp unsalted butter (I used vegan butter)
(I added freshly ground black pepper and chopped parsley to garnish) 

Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a heavy pot and, when hot, add the leeks and garlic. Cook over medium heat for about 3 minutes until the vegetables begin to soften, then add the stock, potatoes and salt, and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce the heat and boil gently for 30 minutes. 

While the soup is cooking, make the croutons: Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil in a large skillet. When hot, saute the bread cubes, stirring almost continuously, until they are browned evenly on all sides.

When the soup mixture is cooked, push the mixture through a food mill or puree in a food processor. To puree in a food processor, strain the soup first through a fine sieve, Place the solids in the bowl of a food processor and process until smooth, then combine with the reserved liquid. (If too much of the liquid is processed with the solids, the mixture becomes foamy, yielding a soup with a frothy texture like baby food.) (Note: I strained out most all the garlic and half of the potatoes and put them in my high-speed blender with a little of the broth, then stirred the purée back into the broth so the soup was not frothy and remained smooth and velvety with chunks of potato to for texture.)

Stir the butter into the hot soup and serve with the croutons.

Notes/Results: I really love this simple soup--the garlic is not overpowering at all, it mellows as it cooks and the soup has so much flavor. I will happily make it again. 

Linking up with I Heart Cooking Clubs where this week we are Putting It On Repeat!

Let's see who is here in the Souper Sundays kitchen this week: 

Judee of Gluten Free A - Z Blog is here with Miso Soup with Greens, saying, "Greens are a vital part of any diet and provide alkalinity and calcium with very few calories, zero fat, and good fiber. In addition, greens can help the liver detox. If you do not have bok choy, you can use another green such as baby kale. Miso paste is a fermented food which provides essential bacteria to our gut which in turn helps our digestion. Miso paste also contains B vitamins, folic acid, vitamin E, and vitamin K."

Here at Kahakai Kitchen I tried the TikTok one-pan Egg Sandwich hack for a poetry book review. I used the same Swiss cheese and black pepper bread as in my soup croutons and added Muenster cheese. It was easy and delicious. 

Thank you to Judy for joining me this week!

 

(If you aren't familiar with Souper Sundays, you can read about of the origins of it here.
 

If you would like to join in Souper (Soup, Salad, and Sammie) Sundays, I would love to have you! Here's how...

To join in this week's Souper Sunday's linkup with your soup, salad or sandwich:

• Link up your soup (stew, chili, soupy curries, etc. are fine), salad, or sandwich dish, (preferably one from the current week or month--but we'll take older posts too) on the picture link below and leave a comment on this post so I am sure not to miss you. Also please see below for what to do on your blog post that you link up to Souper Sundays in order to be included in the weekly round-up.

and 

On your entry post (on your blog):

• Mention Souper (Soup, Salad & Sammies) Sundays at Kahakai Kitchen and add a link back to this post. (Not to be a pain but it's polite and only fair to link back to events you link up at--so if you link a post up here without linking back to this post or my blog on your post, it will be removed.)
• You are welcome to add the Souper Sundays logo to your post and/or blog (completely optional).

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Have a happy, healthy week!

 

World Book Day 2021 (And Free Books From Amazon Publishing!)

It's World Book Day! A day to celebrate reading and books from around the world, and a day to fill up your Kindle with free books from Amazon. 

In its fourth year celebrating World Book Day, Amazon Publishing is giving away ten Kindle books to help readers discover authors and stories from around the globe. ANYONE can download the 10 titles in the promotion - this is NOT limited to Amazon Prime members! The 10-day long event begins today, April 15th, and concludes at 11:59 p.m. PDT on April 24th.

This year's books are from Japan, Afghanistan, Brazil, China, Madagascar, France, Argentina, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands and include fiction, non-fiction and even a children's book. 

I'll be greedily loading up my Kindle this weekend. Learn more at World Book Day at Amazon.com

Happy reading!

 

The Book Tour Stops Here; A Review of "Why I Never Finished My Dissertation" by Laura Foley, Served with the TikTok Egg Sandwich Hack

I am happy to be today's stop on the TLC Book Tour for Why I Never Finished My Dissertation by Laura Foley, a book of poetry. Accompanying my review is a version of the popular TikTok Egg Sandwich Hack that made the rounds last year.  

Publisher's Blurb:

Named one of seven Best Indie Poetry Books of 2019 by Kirkus.

Foley’s writing may appear sparse and reserved but it harbors a subtle power. The poet’s greatest strength is her acute sense of observation. She possesses the ability to thread sensuousness into the fabric of everyday life. . .This is a dazzling volume of poetry that delights in crisp imagery and tender recollections.
—Kirkus Reviews

Eric Hoffer/Montaigne Medal Finalist
Eric Hoffer/da Vinci Eye Finalist
Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention

The quest to discover why this poet does not complete a dissertation, leads to an astonishing read. This collection reveals a wide range of life-changing experiences beginning with a marriage to a hunchback Moroccan, almost twice the writer’s age. Other poems express revelations and observations that arise out of travels, such as a trip to Tehran, where the poet stands on a bullet-riddled balcony watching a hurried crowd “spill Khomeini from his coffin.” The signature poem unveils a suddenly busy domestic life in a second marriage with three young children and puppies. Toward the end readers experience love which results in marriage with a same-sex partner. No matter one’s personal story, what makes a story great is how it is told.

—The US Review of Books

Publisher : Headmistress Press (August 18, 2019) 

Paperback : 108 pages

 

My Review:

I enjoy poetry but I find that I don't read books of it very often. April is National Poetry Month so I get a poem delivered to my email daily and I write haiku about random things--including summarizing chapters of Jane Austen's novels for one of my virtual buddy read-alongs (yes, I am that strange), but don't think I am qualified to review it at all critically, I can just tell you whether I like a poem or not and if it speaks to me in some way. Laura Foley's poems do. This is the second of her books that I have read and reviewed (see my review of Night Ringing here). Her poems are simple, not especially flowery, and she choses her words with care and percision. The poems are about everyday moments on one hand, but Foley's life has been an interesting one so I find myself somewhat fascinated by it. We don't have a lot in common on paper but I find when a poem leaves me satisfied in its beauty but still wanting to know more about the story behind it, it has done its job. Like Night Ringing, there are strong ties to nature and the poet's observations of the beauty, which I loved. 

Below is one of my favorite short poems from the book. I love the imagery of the amiable maple as it conjured up sitting under a favorite tree and enjoying its shade with a good book. With everything that went on in the world over the last year, I found myself often glued to reading and watching the (usually bad) news and I like the point Foley makes that these wonderful parts of life--happy dogs, autumn leaves, holding babies and amiable trees are the current events to be attentive to. (At least that's how it resonated with me!) 

One Day

I didn't read the news.

I raked a rainbow

of pungent autumn leaves,

played abroad with happy dogs, 

held my granddaughter in my arms,

and sat beneath an amiable maple,

attentive to current events. 

If you love poetry and poetry that is biographical you will enjoy Why I Never Finished My Dissertation, and if you are new to poetry, it's a great place to start diving in. 

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Author Notes: Laura Foley is the author of six poetry collections, including Joy Street, Syringa and Night Ringing. Her poem “Gratitude List” won the Common Good Books poetry contest and was read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. Her poem “Nine Ways of Looking at Light” won the Joe Gouveia Outermost Poetry Contest, judged by Marge Piercy. For more information on Laura’s work, please visit her website.

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Food Inspiration:

So yeah, it's poetry so our food inspiration is a bit limited. But considering that for her last book of poetry, I just bought a cappuccino from my favorite local coffee shop,  I can't help feeling I am ahead of the game here!  ;-) The food I tagged throughout the book was pomegranates, caviar by the pound, fresh-squeezed red juice, sauerkraut, onions, painting egg whites on rolls, vegetarian, dinner, coffee, an egg sandwich, endless cocktails, a garden harvest of chard, tomatoes, onions and a host of potatoes, champagne, green tea with honey, bread dipped in the finest olive oil, and fried eggs. 

I decided to go with a combination of the egg sandwich, fried egg, bread and olive oil mentioned in two of the poems, and also to finally try out the "one-pan egg sandwich" that made the rounds of TikTok a while ago. You basically pour eggs in a pan, top them with bread, turn them over and fold everything into the bread. Not going to lie, the appeal is that it's simple, and having bought a loaf of black pepper Swiss cheese bread last weekend, I had all I needed to make. 

I was going to take pictures of the process as I cooked but I realized I didn't bring my phone into the kitchen with me and was too lazy to go get it. If you want to see the technique, here's a good article from Taste of Home that shows the steps. shows.

TikTok Egg Sandwich Hack

Recipe by TikTok and the World

(Serves 1)

olive oil

2-3 large fresh eggs

2 pieces of your favorite bread, sliced

sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

cheese and other things like bacon, grilled veggies, herbs (optional)

Heat a light coating of  olive oil in skillet over medium heat. Whisk eggs in a bowl, then pour them into skillet. Place two sliced of bread on top of the eggs, lining them up so they are aligned vertically in the pan (they need to be lined up like thus since you are folding one piece over the other to make a sandwich). Once the eggs are cooked, carefully flip both the slices of bread over at the same time (so the eggs are now on top). Fold the overlapping edges of egg onto the bread, place a slice of cheese on each piece of bread, then flip one slice of bread onto the other to finish off your sandwich. Reduce heat and let sandwich cook another minute or two to melt the cheese.  

Notes/Results: Like reading poetry after a long while, when I eat a good egg sandwich I ask myself why I don't eat them more as a quick dinner. Made this way it is a quick, no mess process that tastes great. I probably over-egged for my small bread but when eating it, I didn't mind. The bread has good flavor on it's own with the Swiss cheese and black pepper and so I used a mild creamy Muenster cheese. I will make it again.  

Speaking of books, did you know it's World Book Day and you can get 10 free Kindle books from Amazon for the next 10 days? Read my post about it and find the links here. 

I am linking up this post to Souper Sundays here at Kahakai Kitchen where each week I share a soup and also feature soups, salads, and sandwiches from other bloggers. Here's the link to this week's link up.

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I'm also sharing this post with the Weekend Cooking event  being hosted by Marg at The Adventures of An Intrepid Reader. It's a weekly event that is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share. Here's the link to this week's post. 

Finally I am linking up to the National Poetry Month Link Up at Savvy Verse & Wit. Where you can share poetry-related posts this month. Here's the link to the link up post.

Note: A review copy of Why I Never Finished My Dissertation was provided to me by the author and the publisher via TLC Book Tours. I was not compensated for this review and as always, my thoughts and opinions are my own.   
 
You can see the stops for the rest of this TLC Book Tour and what other reviewers thought about the book here. 

  

Mark Bittman's Basic Corn (& Hominy) Chowder for Souper (Soup, Salad, & Sammie) Sundays

I wanted corn chowder but I also wanted to use up one of three large cans of hominy I had in my pantry so I decided to doctor up Mark Bittman's Basic Corn Chowder a bit, keeping it simple but adding the hominy and some extra touches to build the flavor you would get from fresh corn. 

Mark Bittman's Basic Corn (& Hominy) Chowder

Slightly Adapted from NYT Cooking

(Makes 4 Servings)

4 to 6 ea4s of corn (I used one 8 oz package frozen corn plus 1 (28-oz) can hominy)
1 Tbsp butter or neutral oil like canola or grapeseed

1 medium onion, chopped

1 stalk celery chopped

2 medium potatoes, peeled & diced (I used 1lb baby red potatoes, scrubbed & quartered)

(I used 1 tsp celery salt)

(I used 1 tsp dried thyme)

(I added 4 cups non-chicken broth)

salt and freshly ground black pepper

2 tomatoes, cored, seeded & chopped (optional)

1 cup low-fat milk (I used 1 can coconut milk)

1/2 cup chopped parsley

 

1. Shuck corn, and use a paring knife to strip kernels into a bowl. Put cobs in a pot with 4 cups water; bring to a boil, cover and simmer while you continue.
2. Put butter or oil in a saucepan, and turn heat to medium-high. When butter melts or oil is hot, add onion and potatoes, along with a sprinkling of salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion softens, about 5 minutes; add tomatoes and cook, stirring, for another minute or two.
3. After corncobs have cooked at least 10 minutes, strain liquid into onion-potato mixture; bring to a boil, then lower heat to a simmer. When potatoes are tender, add corn kernels and milk, and heat through. Taste, and adjust seasonings. Garnish with the parsley, and serve.

I skipped the corn step and started with sautéing the onions (and celery) and potatoes, then adding the spices and tomatoes. I also replaced the corn cob broth with non-chicken stock and followed the rest of the recipe pretty much as written, just replacing the milk with coconut milk.

Notes/Results: Just a simple flavorful corn chowder with lots of great texture from the bigger pieces of chewy hominy and the firm sweet pieces of corn. The coconut milk makes it rich and the added spices give extra flavor that you would get from fresh, in-season corn. It would be good with crusty bread. I would happily make it again. 

 Linking up to I Heart Cooking Clubs where this week is (Spring) Break It Up. 

 

Let's see who is here in the Souper Sundays kitchen this week: 

Crafty Gardener is here with Chicken Rice Soup, saying "Who can resist a tasty bowl of soup on a chilly or not so chilly day.I made some chicken rice soup out of an extra cooked chicken breast, some fresh veggies and some veggies from my frozen stash. Soup for two. This soup freezes well so you could double or triple the amounts to have some for the freezer to enjoy later. To save space in the freezer I freeze my soups flat in freezer bags."

Radha of The Magical Ingredients for a Wholesome Life From the Heart of My Home shared two recipes this week. First is this Homemade Whole Wheat Sun-Dried Tomato Pasta Salad, saying, "I used sun-dried tomatoes in the pasta dough and made the salad with fresh crunchy veggies, all flavored with balsamic vinaigrette. The crunchy topping is lovely in every bite." 

The second dish was Dal Sprouts Salad. Radha says, "This dal sprouts salad used simple whole dals that will be in every home. Instead of making curries alone, they are great as salad too. I often make sprouts and use them in curries, salad, and rice or paratha." 

Shaheen of Allotment2Kitchen brought Mexican-Style Black Eyed Beans Soup saying., "This is a Black Eyed Beans soup with red pepper happens to be vegan, but too tone down the spices, I garnished it with grated cheddar cheese for coolness. To make more of a substantial meal of it, i made cornbread. I remembered the packets of cornbread mix that my American friends brought over a couple of years back."

Thank you to everyone who joined me this week!

 

(If you aren't familiar with Souper Sundays, you can read about of the origins of it here.
 

If you would like to join in Souper (Soup, Salad, and Sammie) Sundays, I would love to have you! Here's how...

To join in this week's Souper Sunday's linkup with your soup, salad or sandwich:

• Link up your soup (stew, chili, soupy curries, etc. are fine), salad, or sandwich dish, (preferably one from the current week or month--but we'll take older posts too) on the picture link below and leave a comment on this post so I am sure not to miss you. Also please see below for what to do on your blog post that you link up to Souper Sundays in order to be included in the weekly round-up.

and 

On your entry post (on your blog):

• Mention Souper (Soup, Salad & Sammies) Sundays at Kahakai Kitchen and add a link back to this post. (Not to be a pain but it's polite and only fair to link back to events you link up at--so if you link a post up here without linking back to this post or my blog on your post, it will be removed.)
• You are welcome to add the Souper Sundays logo to your post and/or blog (completely optional).

 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Have a happy, healthy week!