Cross-posted at Jazz Cooking.
Late summer, and although it's still very warm and more than a bit humid here in the Deep South, many who live a little farther north are starting to see some cooler weather. The sun's angle is lower in the sky and the days are growing shorter. It's time to finish up the harvest of summer vegetables and think ahead to something a bit different, a bit heartier, for the autumn season.
This week I went to the local artisan bakery to pick up a loaf or two of sunflower wheat bread. This particular bakery also serves breakfast and lunch -- a kind of tearoom atmosphere of pastries, quiche, fruit salad plates and light sandwiches that normally doesn't speak to me. But this day the menu board said "Today's special -- Italian Wedding Soup: chicken broth, pasta, meatballs, spinach." I was suddenly starving. It sounded delectable. And it was lunchtime.
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