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(I was like, Since when do I use the phrase cozy soup? Thats when I knew I was old. Gay discovered her preferred recipe for it on The New York Times Cooking app a couple of years ago when she was cold and looking to warm up with a cozy soup, she says. Homemade tomato soup is another relatively new favorite. Gay still doesnt consider herself a huge admirer of most bisques and bouillons, but she occasionally craves the matzo ball soup emphasis on the fluffy matzo balls that her wife, the designer Debbie Millman, learned to make from her grandmother.
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And it was so exquisite, I just thought, Maybe I should give soup a chance. I didnt want to try it, but it was one of those tasting menu restaurants, explains Gay, who lives in Los Angeles. She can pinpoint the moment she first tried a soup she enjoyed straightaway: it was an indescribably beautiful butternut squash creation, she says, every spoonful more rich and layered than the last, at the restaurant Mlisse in Santa Monica, Calif. MUSIC PLAYING For the soup, you’ll need butter, onions, all-purpose flour, diced tomatoes, chicken broth, sugar, salt and pepper, half-and-half, and honey. Garnish the tomato soup with Parmesan cheese, oregano, and/or basil. And today, I’m making tomato soup and grilled cheese, because it’s getting cold outside. This creamy and delicious Instant Pot® tomato soup recipe warms the soul from the inside out. It was years later that Gay, now 47, recognized the dish as a delicacy. If youre looking for comfort food, look no further. Still, on New Years Day, their parents would always make soup joumou a hearty, traditional Haitian dish of squash, beef, potatoes, other vegetables and herbs. For most of her life, the idea of a hot, savory liquid, the author says, simply didnt hold much appeal and, growing up in Omaha, she and her two younger brothers tended to avoid it.