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Muddling Though, Pt 2: Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Crispy Chorizo
October 6, 2014 By Isabelle Boucher | Filed Under: fall, pork, soup, winter
In retrospect, it seems rather telling that I titled my last post “Muddling Through”, though at the time I was really just making a punny reference to the use of muddled berries.
Still, “muddling through” is a pretty accurate description of how I spent my September.
I don’t know if it’s the change in the seasons that’s hitting me harder than usual, or if it’s the lingering case of the sniffles that I can’t quite shake, or if it’s the culmination of a summer spent with my insides wound up in knots while my day job went through what they euphemistically like to call a…
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