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mussel and fennel bisque: the shellfish strikes back

I kind of feel like this week’s soupapalooza! was an unintentional homage to the 1980s. Not the semi-ironic Breakfast Club, shoulder pads and leggings-wearing 1980s (sorry LiLo, but you’re doing it wrong), no, but the big flavor, Windows on the World 1980s. Which, incidentally, was the site of my first ever consumed consommé. At the time I thought it was just exceptionally expensive broth to be eaten while looking out over the whole of Manhattan, and I was right; but it was also the only thing on the menu that didn’t completely fry my eight year old brain other than the chocolate soufflé. 

Last week someone asked me what made a bisque a bisque and I had no answer other than I ate a lot of it in the 80s because, for some reason, it seemed like anything with fish had to be healthy (mind you, this was the era when pasta was considered a DIET food). Let me be frank: even when I don’t have an answer I always have an answer. It’s pathological and obnoxious; and for me to be not only stumped, but stumped AND speechless considering I consider myself a bit of a soup expert, well that just would’t do.

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PostedJune 24, 2010
Authormelissa mcclure
Categoriessoup
Tagsharicot vert, white chocolate whipped cream, grand marnier chocolate souffle, it's a bisque deal, recipe, fennel, 80s throwback, salad français, soup, mussles, soupapalooza!, market greens, seafood, shellfish, dijon vinaigrette, baby potato, a time when pasta was considered diet food, vinaigrette
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