Peppery Oatcakes / Zucchini Soup with Garlic Toasts / Øllebrød med Æggesnaps – Rye Porridge with Creamed Egg Topping

Blog Post & Recipe: There's no Cheddar without an oatcake

However, my favourite was a small oatcake from the selection of Marks & Spencer that was speckled with coarsely ground black pepper.

Peppery oatcakes

Recipe: Zucchini Soup with Garlic Toasts

Here's a great soup for fall. It uses up some of those zucchini and is easy, fast and healthy. I just add wine and chicken broth and fresh chopped chives for added flavor.

Blog Post & Recipe: Øllebrød med Æggesnaps – Rye Porridge with Creamed Egg topping

It’s a dish that is great for using up the leftover end-pieces of Rye bread, but of course it doesn’t have to be leftover bread. It is high in fiber, low in fat and it has a slightly tart taste. It’s a solid meal which leaves you with a sensation of fullness and you often see it feed to babies.

Aebleskivers. Moroccan Carrot Soup. Caramelized onions.

Article & Recipes: All about aebleskivers

Aebleskivers are a type of pancake cooked in a special stove-top pan with half-spherical molds. The center is soft and fluffy, almost creamy.

Recipe: Mrs. Malmberg's ... Recipe: Grandmother's aebleskivers

Blog Post & Recipe: Florence Fabricant's Moroccan Carrot Soup with Mussels

The recipe comes from Florence Fabricant's Pairings column ... All you have to is whip up a simple soup (fry an onion and cumin in olive oil, add a bunch of peeled, chunked carrots, boil, puree, done). Then you purée that into a smooth soup, and add fresh lemon juice ...

Article & Recipe: Turning onions into pure gold

... just because there are no long lists of ingredients or complicated techniques does not mean caramelizing onions is without pitfalls. The main one -- and it's a dish-killer -- is that caramelizing can come awfully close to burning, and once you've scorched the onions there's no way to get rid of that bitter flavor but to dump them out, wipe the pan clean and start over.

To avoid this, cook the onions in the heaviest pot you have over the lowest heat possible for much of the time, stirring as often as you can. That should be at least every 15 to 20 minutes for most of the cooking, shortening to 5 to 10 minutes when you get down to the end stages.

Caramelized onions

N.b. I've divided the 'soup' tag into 'soup' and 'vegetable soup.' It was getting unwieldy.