This cozy soup is my Polish-inspired take on kapuśniak, a traditional soup made with sauerkraut, potatoes, and smoked sausage. My version keeps the spirit of Slavic culinary traditions but relies on minimal, everyday ingredients. As a hunter, I almost always have venison in the freezer, so that’s what I like to use in place of…
One of the things I love most about recipe development is that you can start a recipe off with one idea and end up with something very different. This soup, for example, began as a riff on Olive Garden’s chicken gnocchi soup, but somewhere along the way nostalgia hit. The aromatic smell of leeks cooking…
This version of Borscht came together like most of my recipes – while staring at a hunk of meat in my freezer and thinking of all the various ways I could prepare it. The short ribs were purchased from our local butcher shop during the holidays but I never got the chance to cook it….