Recipes from the Night Kitchen: A Practical Guide to Spectacular Soups, Stews, and Chilies
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Be it a steaming bowl of Minestrone to take the bite out of a winter day or a delicate Raspberry Lime Soup for sultry summer nights when appetites are flagging, these eighty enticing recipes for soups, stews, and chilies are simple for even the novice cook, and creatively appealing to the experienced chef. Anyone with a deep pot and a ladle can make sumptuous meals of a rich Curried Chicken Stew or a refreshing chilled Breakfast Fruit Soup in about half an hour.
From warm, comforting classics like Matzo Ball Soup, New England Clam Chowder, and Beef Stew to elegant meal openers like Carrot with Ginger Cream or Avocado Gazpacho, there's a taste for every season, a treat for every palate.
Sally Nirenberg
Sally Nirenberg is the author of Recipes from the Night Kitchen, a Simon & Schuster book.
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Recipes from the Night Kitchen - Sally Nirenberg
Fireside
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Copyright © 1990 by Sally Nirenberg
All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.
FIRESIDE and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster Inc.
Illustrations by Janet Dennis
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Nirenberg, Sally.
Recipes from the Night Kitchen : a practical guide to spectacular soups, stews, and chilies / Sally Nirenberg.
p. cm.
A Fireside book.
1. Soups. 2. Stews. 3. Chili con carne. 4. From the Night Kitchen (Restaurant) I. Title.
TX757.N57 1990
641.8′13—dc20 90-38393
CIP
ISBN 0-671-68801-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-6716-8801-1
eISBN: 978-1-439-13500-6
Acknowledgments
First and foremost, I want to thank my family. Both my parents and my brothers refused to cater to my many quirks about food while growing up; this hardship forced me to learn to cook and to be inventive.
Second, and perhaps of an equal but different importance, I want to thank all my loyal customers for being willing guinea pigs.
To Susan Orlean, for listening to me agonize over the writing process and for putting out many internal fires along the way.
To Danielle Abrams, Mary Burnham, Andre Clarke, Anna Gonzales, and Laura Putney, for running the store while I sat in front of my computer. Without them, I would never have been able to get out of the kitchen.
To my patient and wonderful friends for offering recipes, suggestions, criticisms, open ears, and, especially, open mouths: Eric Behr, Leah Bird, Toni Bowerman, Sharon Briggs, Mark Butler, Charles Cody, Sarah Conover, Bob Cowden, Cathy Dinardo, Emily Friedan, Judy and Mark Hershey, Gary Hoff, Joshua Jaffe, Anna Krantz, Carol Lesser, Donna Levin, Jack Levin, Marjorie Lyon, Julie Merberg, Sydny Miner, Gary Monzon, Darel Moss, Nancy Olin, Russ Robinson, Mark Sampson, John and Susan Schaub, Lizzy Shaw, Peter Sistrom, Jan and Bruce Spitz, Steve Steinberg, Cynthia Stuart, Peter Wheeler.
For Alice, who hated to cook, and for Sam, who loved to eat.
And for Michael, who in his own way inspired me.
Contents
INTRODUCTORY NOTES
On Ingredients and Amounts
Essential Ingredients
On Herbs and Spices
On Stocks and Broths
On Equipment
VEGETABLE SOUPS: Introduction
Artichoke with Lemon
Asparagus with Tarragon
Broccoli with Dill
Broccoli Cauliflower with Basil and Parmesan
Broccoli Rabe and Orzo
Broccoli Tomato with Parmesan and Oregano
Butternut Squash and Tomato
Butternut Squash with Apples and Almonds
Butternut Squash with Garlic, Ginger, and Lime
Cabbage with Bacon and Cream
Carrot with Fennel
Carrot with Ginger Cream
Cauliflower with Cheddar
Spicy Cauliflower
Celeriac and Potato
Cream of Celery
Cilantro-Ginger with Cream
Corn with Basil
Five Pepper
Cream of Mushroom
Hunters Soup
Mushroom, Leek, and Barley
Mushroom with Frangelico
Onion
Parsnip with Sour Cream and Mustard
Potato with Garlic
Pumpkin with Bourbon
Tomato with Goat Cheese
Triple Tomato
Creamy Vegetable
Watercress
Curried Zucchini with Cream
Zucchini Potato
BEAN SOUPS: Introduction
Spicy Black Bean
Black Bean and Ham
Black-Eyed Pea with Collard Greens
Curried Spinach and Lentil
Lentil Barley
Noah’s Minestrone
Pasta e Fagioli
Portuguese Kale
Split Pea with Lemon
Split Pea with Smoked Turkey and Cream
White Bean with Basil
White Bean and Vegetable with Garlic and Rosemary
CHICKEN SOUPS: Introduction
Avgolemono
Chicken with Ginger and Dill
Chicken with Rosemary
Chicken with Tarragon Cream
Matzoh Ball Soup
Mexican Avgolemono
Mexican Chicken Soup with Cocoa
Mulligatawny
Vegetable with Smoked Turkey, Romaine, and Parmesan
FISH SOUPS: Introduction
Mussel Chowder
New England Clam Chowder
Spicy Clam and Vegetable
CHILI: Introduction
Black Bean Chili
Chili with Eggplant and Beef
Harpoon Chili
Spicy Sausage Chili
STEWS: Introduction
Beef Carbonnade
Cassoulet
Classic Beef Stew
Curried Beef Stew
Curried Chicken Stew
Rosemary Chicken Stew
CHILLED SOUPS: Introduction
Breakfast Fruit Soup
Cantaloupe and Honeydew with Ginger
Cucumber Tomato
Cucumber Walnut
Gazpacho
Avocado Gazpacho
Green Gazpacho
Orange Gazpacho
Red Gazpacho
White Gazpacho
Fresh Pea with Curry and Cream
Raspberry Lime
Senegalese
Spinach with Garlic, Lemon, and Yogurt
Vichyssoise
INTRODUCTORY NOTES
On November 19, 1982, I opened From the Night Kitchen at 24 Harvard Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. I had spent every penny that I owned, and some pennies of both my family and friends. I had wanted to own my own business for years, and after thinking long and hard about the effects of not doing what it was I really wanted to do, I decided to take a chance.
As unbelievable as it seems now (actually, things were a lot easier even as recently as then), I did not have a particularly clear idea of how to have what I wanted; I knew that I wanted to sell interesting and unusual foods and that I wanted to create an atmosphere where people felt comfortable. I did not think that I would be a cook. Like everyone else, I think I had the idea that I would sit around all day drinking wonderful, strong coffee and talking to interesting people.
It was not meant to be.
My original store was a cross between a café and a gourmet food shop. Meg and Peter Strattner, woodworkers I knew from a previous job, made me four dining tables, two display, and two worktables. They also made shelves for the walls, and cutting boards. I searched antique and thrift stores for old bentwood chairs; I bought two old eight-foot benches from a courtroom; I packed up all the pots and pans that I personally owned; I argued with the health department, hassled with the building department. I negotiated a lease, ordered catalogues, equipment, and merchandise. I hired electricians, plumbers, and painters and somehow I ended up with a store.
As the equipment and merchandise arrived, my friend John Schaub and I spent many long nights unpacking, pricing, and rearranging (it seemed that all we ever ate then was pizza). While I really did not know what I was doing and did not even know whom to ask for help (actually I didn’t know that I didn’t know), I had a strong sense of what I wanted the store to be: I only ordered the kind of cheeses that I