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the spartan white basis of a robust brown soup |
Spanish
garlic soup is a miracle. You fry garlic cloves (Teresa Barrenechea calls for just six) and stale bread in olive oil, add hot water, paprika, and salt and cook until the bread falls apart. In just over half an hour you have an easy, frugal, and hearty soup dinner.
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truly a miracle |
For me anyway. Not for anyone else in my family. Last night's garlic soup was loathed. Midway through the meal I looked over at my husband and thought he'd gone and gotten himself seconds because his bowl was full. He hadn't gotten himself seconds.
Isabel said, "I'm just not that into soggy bread, Mom."
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soggy bread, chorizo, cheese. |
I
love soggy bread. There are a lot of recipes for garlic soup on the internet, but many of them call for chicken or meat stock. Why use stock when water works fine? I wouldn't. If you want to try the recipe from
The Cuisines of Spain, you can find it
here on page 161.
Fried milk for dessert. Extremely seductive concept and Barrenechea writes that it's one of her favorite desserts.You make a milky cornstarch pudding and chill it in a brownie pan until firm. Cut in squares, dip in beaten egg, and fry in olive oil.
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so far so good |
The fritters should have looked like
this, but I was sloppy and rushed and put too many squares in the hot oil so the temperature dropped and the egg coating slipped off. The
leche frita was greasy and disgusting looking, though very tasty.
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Then I blew it. |
I don't think I am into soggy bread either. But I have never tried it, so I might love it. The Italian bread soup has always turned me off as well. I did try to make soup from the leftover stuffing from T'giving. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great. I am intrigued by the fried milk. Did the family like that?
ReplyDeleteYou know? They did like that fried milk. It was yummy. I was surprised at how interested they all were given its bad appearance.
ReplyDeleteThis leche frita is a thing I must research further.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a student in Florence we used to go to a lunch place near the central market that served this soup, vegetables and broth poured over a thick slab of stale Italian bread, that I loved with a fiery passion. Gruff Italian merchants bellied up to the communal table cheek by jowl with us and drank red wine out of tumblers and ordered this soup, followed by pasta and maybe even a meat course. I just had the soup. Oh, the soup. The soggy bread soup. Love.
ReplyDeleteI have loved soggy bread in any form since I was a very small child and discovered how fabulous it was to dunk my buttered toast into my Cream of Wheat. I'd wait till the toast went semi-soggy and then scoop the buttery, sugary, milky bread into my mouth.
ReplyDeleteJennifer, you should also try the soup know as “ajo blanco” (white garlic) in hot Summer days. It is a great alternative to traditional gazpacho (it has almonds and grapes in addition to garlic and bread)
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Hi, thanks for sharing this soup. I came home late and had very little food in the refrigerator and was not inspired to cook dinner until I remembered your post. I am very bad at following recipes and added anchovies and kale to the Sopa de ajo, but I thought the soup was terrific. It's amazing how garlic and oil give the soup so much flavor. I also love the Tuscan bread soup--I've seen it called acqua calda and ribollita, so I am not unbiased--but this is excellent stuff. Thank you!/
ReplyDeletethe fried milk still looks good to me. the soup recipe has given me a reason to stop making croutons...
ReplyDeleteI checked out Make the Bread, Buy the Butter from the library less than 24 hours ago and have read it cover to cover. All the way through I kept stopping to say to my husband, "She is just like me!" (To which he responded, "Crazy?"). I recently acquired a small flock of laying hens and pondered meat birds including turkey. I paid $15 for a tiny local free range chicken at the farm's market last summer and it was not even very good. I too struggle with ethics vs. cost. I still work full time so I can't make everything from scratch but would love to! Needless to say I love your book!
ReplyDeleteI still break out the garlic soup from Moro (which I have thanks to your blog posts) when trying to impress, though that recipe is more generous with the garlic!
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