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Soup’s On! Musings On Life & A Recipe For Summer Black Bean Soup With Cucumber Yogurt

Soup’s On! Musings On Life & A Recipe For Summer Black Bean Soup With Cucumber Yogurt by Christine Moss. Photograph of the black bean soup, courtesy of Christine Moss.
All photographs by Christine Moss

A recipe to remind us that we can create quality food that is inexpensive and easy, plus musings on staying healthy in all aspects of your life.

Here in the Catskills where I live, it’s finally warming up outside and I am filled with a vacillating mixture of hope, anxiety, joy, fear — and love all at the same time. When I find myself too far at the edge of one or all of those feelings, I do my best to remember to take a moment and make sure I am nourishing myself consciously. 

Grounding myself,

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