Thursday, September 11, 2008

Zucchini Avgolemono Soup



I love it when I come across a recipe and realize that I have exactly the ingredients necessary to get cooking right away. It's like destiny. This was just such a recipe, Mark Bittman's Zucchini Egg-Lemon Soup... known in Greek circles as Avgolemono soup. My mom used to make this for us in place of Chicken Noodle Soup, and as a kid, of course I would have preferred eating the latter. Happily, my taste buds have evolved and I can appreciate the silky, tangy, tasty, soothing soup that my people have been cooking since forever. Fittingly, my mom emailed me this recipe yesterday. Mark Bittman's version uses zucchini and I added leeks to the mix because I quite simply LOVE the two vegetables together. I threw the leeks in with the onions at the beginning. After ladling the soup into the bowl, I finished it with a little chopped parsley, freshly grated parmesan cheese, a crack of black pepper and a drizzle of olive oil. Good times, good soup. 

2 comments:

Leslie F. Miller said...

That looks incredibly yummy, and I have just the sophisticated taste to devour this. So you can come cook it for me this fall. With Jennifer. I'll make the challah (I am famous for that, you know). Oh, yeah, and the cake.

Alice said...

YUM!