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Black Eyed Pea Soup
Ever since I tasted it upon arriving from India and discovering the health benefits, I embraced cooking with olive oil. Over the years, I continued experimenting with what spices work best with it. When my son Virag spent a semester in Spain, he brought back a freshly harvested bottle by his host mother’s family’s olive groves. It forever changed the way I look at the green elixir. As with all food, knowing the source makes all the difference.
Early this year, I was introduced to a local impassioned olive-oil aficionado from Tuscany who spends every fall traveling through parts of Europe to bring back the best-tasting oils. I finally understood how to taste olive oil (swish it in a tiny glass and drink it straight up), the subtleties of single origin and how much high-heat cooking or terroir affect the flavor, whether whisked into a salad dressing or drizzled on stews and pilafs.
Drizzled on this good-luck black-eyed pea soup, a single-origin olive oil with strong notes of fruitiness, bitterness and pungency beautifully complements the sweetness of the cardamom, cinnamon and carrots. Here’s to ending a memorable yet forgettable year and lessons learned. May we all emerge stronger and more enlightened.
Ever since I tasted it upon arriving from India and discovering the health benefits, I embraced cooking with olive oil. Over the years, I continued experimenting with what spices work best with it. When my son Virag spent a semester in Spain, he brought back a freshly harvested bottle by his host mother’s family’s olive groves. It forever changed the way I look at the green elixir. As with all food, knowing the source makes all the difference.
Early this year, I was introduced to a local impassioned olive-oil aficionado from Tuscany who spends every fall traveling through parts of Europe to bring back the best-tasting oils. I finally understood how to taste olive oil (swish it in a tiny glass and drink it straight up), the subtleties of single origin and how much high-heat cooking or terroir affect the flavor, whether whisked into a salad dressing or drizzled on stews and pilafs.
Drizzled on this good-luck black-eyed pea soup, a single-origin olive oil with strong notes of fruitiness, bitterness and pungency beautifully complements the sweetness of the cardamom, cinnamon and carrots. Here’s to ending a memorable yet forgettable year and lessons learned. May we all emerge stronger and more enlightened.

75 Minutes
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Notes & Variations
- Here are the two oils I have been cooking with for quite some time — at home and at the restaurant. Entimio Italiano imports award-winning, unique extra-virgin oils from Tuscany that work great as finishing oils for salads and roasted meats. Roots olive oil is a brand brought in by a Greek enthusiast from the Messenia province of Greece that works well as a cooking oil.
- Serve the soup on its own or with a side of warm crusty bread or rice.
- The soup is best eaten the day it is prepared.

Notes & Variations
- Here are the two oils I have been cooking with for quite some time — at home and at the restaurant. Entimio Italiano imports award-winning, unique extra-virgin oils from Tuscany that work great as finishing oils for salads and roasted meats. Roots olive oil is a brand brought in by a Greek enthusiast from the Messenia province of Greece that works well as a cooking oil.
- Serve the soup on its own or with a side of warm crusty bread or rice.
- The soup is best eaten the day it is prepared.
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