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title: 'a late winter soup'
url: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/a-late-winter-soup'
markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/a-late-winter-soup.md'
date: '2023-02-26'
description: 'Three too many cloves of garlic. That’s what it takes to get the apartment to smell of soup. I let it simmer over the lowest heat as I come and go randomly adding a vegetable here, some chicken there. It thickens over time, as the broth becomes. And I wash the rice, before I toast it in a bit of oi…'
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# a late winter soup

## [a late winter soup](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/a-late-winter-soup)

    26th Feb 2023   [design](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:design#body-wrapper) [poetry](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:poetry#body-wrapper) [PostADay](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:PostADay#body-wrapper)  

Three too many cloves of garlic. That’s what it takes to get the apartment to smell of soup. I let it simmer over the lowest heat as I come and go randomly adding a vegetable here, some chicken there.

It thickens over time, as the broth becomes.

And I wash the rice, before I toast it in a bit of oil, then prepare it separately, until I can tumble it, snow-like, into the pot.

The air has become golden with garlic, shallots, and pepper. The mushrooms lightly melt as they swirl around the pot. The enamelled iron both radiates and contains.

I am warmed from within.

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