February 8, 2011 new recipes

This lovely dish is La Soupe de Louviers, from Epicurious.com. It is a fabulous vegetable soup, and our new dish for today. We did not use chicken broth--just plain water, as the recipe calls for. The bay leaves, clove, fresh thyme (this needs fresh!) and nutmeg work really well to make this a very interesting soup. We made the soup the whole meal.

We drank a 2006 Château Peyruchet Sauvignon Blanc with the soup--this bottle was a little oxidized, but it was a good match overall.