Comments on: Winter Vacation 2010, Day Seven: Homeward Bound

By: dowingba

dowingba — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:41:15 +0000

What a fantastic read. Having never been outside of my home country, I do find it exciting to live vicariously through others’ worldly romps. You really brought the magic of your vacation to the page really well. Thank you for that.

Also, loving the photographs lately.

By: Pam

Pam — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:21:09 +0000

MSG doesn’t cause any neurological problems for me (at least none I notice), but it has a HORRIBLE aftertaste so I hate when restaurants use it.

By: Kris B

Kris B — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:04:25 +0000

I’ve substituted “Bragg’s Liquid Amino” sauce or “Annie’s vegan Worcestershire” sauce for msg spice in soup recipes. If I don’t have those on hand, a splash of tamari works well too.

By: Kris

Kris — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:27:21 +0000

Note: The Complete Seasoning is mostly MSG. I think MSG is a fascinating topic; a lot of people avoid it because it causes headaches for some people. But I think most people have no ill effect. In fact, everyone raved about these soups, and then looked somewhat sheepish 3 days later when we got the recipes that they weren’t bothered a bit by the MSG that they didn’t know was there.

Anyway, if you ARE affected adversely by MSG, the recommendation is to make this soup with a nice vegetable or chicken stock instead of plain water, then adjust the salt to taste, or use bouillon cubes appropriate for the 6 cups volume (some bouillon has MSG too).