Polish Dill Pickle Soup ♥ Plus Some Fun News!

Polish Dill Pickle Soup: It'll grab you!

Today's soup recipe: A potato soup like you've never imagined, completely potato-y but also pickle-y, dill pickle-y to be exact. The creamy-sharp combination takes you by surprise. "Oh that's good," you just might say. We did.

So yes, today there's a fun recipe but first, the reason why it's especially fun: it's featured in the weekly column that I'm writing for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the big local newspaper here in St. Louis. (Pinch me, yes, I'm really writing that!!! It's really true!)

The column is called 'Special Request' and is the Post's popular restaurant recipe request column. On Wednesdays, it appears in print in the paper's food section and online at stltoday.com. Each week, a new restaurant and a new recipe is featured. (Pinch me again. Really. DO.)

What does a proud home cook know about restaurant recipes? Well so far, the recipes that Post readers are requesting are far more humble than haute. The recipes from the first two columns are actually "very Alanna".

Today I'm sharing the oh-so-surprising recipe for Polish Dill Pickle Soup from The Fountain on Locust, a funky little restaurant here in St. Louis. We did the tasting (yes, they call this 'work') on a snowy-icy January night and the hot soup took us completely by surprise -- it's a potato soup, sure, but there's this definite and distinctive dill pickle flavor. Aiii, it's something special!

And last week on Kitchen Parade, I shared the recipe for this lovely three-ingredient raspberry dessert that I call Sugar-Free Raspberry Bliss from the Saint Louis Club. How pretty is THAT, eh?!!
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