W hat makes Aidaya in Ueno stand out is the variety of their tsukemen. While you can still get tsukemen made exclusively with ...

Pour in the bone broth, add the diced cucumber, and bring the mixture to a gentle boil. Reduce the heat to low and let the soup simmer for 15-20 minutes, allowing the vegetables to soften and ...

Add ½ cup laksa paste or red curry paste and cook, stirring often and reducing heat if starting to spatter too much, until deepened in color and oil is absorbed, about 2 minutes.

Bring 10 cups water to boil in large soup pot. Add soup bone, onion, celery, salt, pepper, and parsley. Cover and simmer 1 hour. Strain and discard onion and celery. Return broth to pot.

You can make it in a slow cooker, but I made it for dinner, starting at about 1:30 p.m. and it was done by 3:30 p.m. I work at home, so that's an option for me.

Black-eyed pea soup is a new venture for our test cook, who saw it as a way to use up a ham bone. When I brought a slow cooker filled with “Smokey Black-Eyed Pea Soup” from the Times Leader ...