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Spoon Jar Kitchen and Fermentery

Recipes and ideas to feast and ferment on.

 
Farmer’s Market Celery Root Soup
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Farmer’s Market Celery Root Soup

My favorite way to cook many winter vegetables is as a smooth, thick soup. Soup is easy, approachable, and delicious! It’s the sort of meal that can be built from ingredients that can be found at my local farmer’s markets and keep the supporting ingredients limited to common staples.

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Three Bean Chili
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Three Bean Chili

What I love about chili is the trifecta of texture, spice, and meaty-ness. It needs to have something to “chew” and that visual of a lot of great things going on - tomatoes, peppers, beans, all-the-toppings. The spice needs to be balanced; yes to heat and smoke but not so much as to blow out your taste buds on the first bite.

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