Smitten Kitchen: Spiced Cauliflower Soup

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Smitten Kitchen, is an ambitious seriously renowned home cooking weblog trailblazer ‘with an emphasis on simplifying daunting recipes’. Deb Perelman (also a cookbook author) delivers her recipes and know–how in easy, tongue-in-cheek conversation with beautiful photography.
Deliberating about the pumpkin spice alien invasion recently, Indian-spiced Cauliflower Soup made my list for dinner after last night’s big wow rain storm.
Like a stir-fry, this soup flies together easily by prepping the ingredients and placing them close at hand. There is an actual 2-second pause clause in the instructions.
An orange yam filled in for the potato in my pot-o-soup; a few rings of medium hot jalapeno pepper with cool fruitiness found its way into the soup

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