Cucumber Soup w Wasabi-Avocado Cream

Puree cucumbers w water, vinegar, and 2 tsp kosher salt in batches in blender until smooth. Mash together avocado, lime juice, and remaining tsp salt until smooth. Whisk in yogurt, wasabi paste, chives and pepper to taste. Just before serving, blend soup w ice in batches until smooth. Serve topped w avocado cream. Garnish w…

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Crabmeat Soup Tahitian

Sauté onion and butter until translucent. Stir in flour; blend well. Add heavy cream and broth. Simmer 5 min, stirring frequently. Stir in coconut milk, spinach and crabmeat. Cook 3 min, stirring frequently. Season to taste. Crab 1.5 cOnion 2 c, dicedButter 0.25 cFlour 2 THeavy Cream 2 cStock 1.5 c, chickenSpinach 2 c, frozen,…

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Crab Soup, Cream of

Melt butter in heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, cloves and bay leaf and sauté until onion is translucent, about 3 min. Sprinkle w flour and stir 1 min. Gradually whisk in milk and cream. Add nutmeg and cayenne. Reduce heat to medium low. Simmer until slightly thickened, about 15 min. Strain soup…

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Crab & Corn Soup

Put the chicken stock, butter, onion, corn, garlic, salt, cayenne pepper and crabmeat in a 4 quart slow cooker. Cover and cook on high for 4 hours or for 8 hours on low. If you want a thicker soup, pulse a handheld blender a few times or scoop out a cup and blend in a…

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Corn Soup, Fresh

Simmer corn w salt in 6 c water, covered, 20 min or until very tender. Puree in batches in blender. Pour through coarse sieve, pressing on solids, into a saucepan if serving hot or into a metal bowl if serving cold. Reheat or chill. If too thick, thin w water. Serve sprinkled w chives. (May…

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Corn & Lobster Soup

Cook corn and cut kernels from cob. Puree. Put into 2-qt saucepan. Add Lobster Cream Base and bring to boil, stirring occasionally. Strain into clean saucepan, pressing on solids. Season w salt and pepper and thin w milk if desired. (Can be prepared I day ahead). Cut peel from zucchini in 1/8″ thick strips; cut…

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Conch Chowder

In heavy medium saucepan, cook onion and bacon over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until bacon is crisp. Add garlic and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add wine and boil until reduced by about half. Stir in chicken broth, fish stock, and thyme and simmer 5 min. Peel and cut potato into 1/4″ dice and add to…

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Clam Chowder serves 6

Put olive oil in Dutch oven and heat on med-hi for 1 min. Add onion scraps and celery scraps, tarragon and little-necks. Stir briefly to coat with oil, and barely soften, then add the wine. Reduce the wine by half, then add 3 oz clam juice. Cover and allow clams to open, removing them as…

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Cioppino Serves 8

Pulse fennel, onion, and garlic in food processor until coarsely chopped. Heat oil in 5- to 6-qt heavy pot over medium high heat until it shimmers, then stir in chopped vegetables, bay leaves, thyme, red-pepper flakes, 1 T salt and 1 tsp black pepper. Cook, covered, over medium heat, stirring once or twice, until vegetables…

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Chicken Corn Soup

Cover chicken w cold water. Add salt, pepper and quartered onion. Cook 3-4 hours. remove chicken and add corn. Beat egg w flour. Add to broth w cut up chicken. Chicken 1 5-6 lbOnion 1Corn 1 qt whiteEgg 1Flour 1.5 c

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