{"id":11646,"date":"2013-12-11T21:11:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T05:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/?p=11646"},"modified":"2020-06-06T12:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T19:18:33","slug":"winter-white-cauliflower-potato-chowder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywaffle.com\/stage1\/winter-white-cauliflower-potato-chowder\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter White Cauliflower and Potato Chowder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You can tell it’s winter by the number of bowls in our dishwasher. Oatmeal in the morning, soup for dinner. Over the last few weeks, it’s been a regular soup smorgasbord around here. We’ve had lentil soup, pho, turkey soup, and chili. A couple of weeks ago, my friend Nicole texted me looking for a cauliflower soup recipe, and while I’d done a corn poblano cauliflower chowder<\/a>, she was looking for something a little more straightforward. \u00a0Just back from LA, what was rolling around in our mostly empty larder \u00a0was a small cauliflower and some yukon gold potatoes that didn’t get used for Thanksgiving. And so, this Winter White Cauliflower and Potato Chowder was born.<\/p>\n

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For the most part, ours was a gorgeous, but chilly weekend (by LA standards, anyway). We stayed in Santa Monica, the closer to be to the downtown farmers market. It was almost like old times, except in the old days, Valerie Confections<\/a> wasn’t at the market. \u00a0It’s a good thing, I’d be tempted every weekend to pick up a few handpies and salted caramel croissants. Of course, this Saturday morning happened to be the only rainy day in LA in months. Without an umbrella, (c’mon, I live in Seattle), I got my pastries, a few pounds of satsumas and got out of dodge. Practically running back to the hotel with a wet head, it\u00a0was all too brief a visit.<\/p>\n

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Salted caramel croissant. Yes, yes and yes.<\/p>\n

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Strawberry Raspberry Lemon handpie.<\/p>\n

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By afternoon, it was sunny again. We wandered Abbot Kinney checking out all the shops. It was easy to see LA the way tourists see it — sunshine and good food and shopping…with the added benefit of knowing your way around town. When I lived here, Abbot Kinney was just starting to take off. Abbot’s Pizza, Hal’s and Axe were there, the Other Room just opened and there were a few shops. A lot has changed.<\/p>\n

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The sun stayed with us through Sunday. It was puffy vest weather for LA, but made for a gorgeous walk in the morning. A walk I probably would never have taken when we lived here. It was wonderfully quiet on a Sunday morning, so I made my way down Main and back, grabbing a coffee at Dogtown before we headed for breakfast and then to the airport to wing our way home.\u00a0
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The soup was a perfect chaser for our weekend of eating LA. \u00a0It makes a relatively small amount for a pot of soup and is great with a grilled cheese sandwich.<\/p>\n

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